Nice example of Augmented Reality for museums

Augmented Reality of the Augsburg Display Cabinet The Getty Museum’s 17th-century display cabinet from Augsburg, Germany, is a type of furniture often called a “cabinet of curiosities” because of its compartments designed to contain collectible objects. Imagine holding the large tabletop cabinet in your hands. You can get a sense of the furniture’s multifaceted structure [...]

Multitouch table presentations made easy with Tiptile

TipTile enables you to make an attractive presentation of image, text and video on the Microsoft Surface™. Tiptile is an easy to use package for making and viewing presentations in an educational or cultural environment. You can edit and preview on any PC and then deploy on Surface. Read details on our Case Study page. [...]

Create your own Museum Daily Newspaper with paper.li

Every museum can have its own daily ‘newspaper’ online. It consists of your links shared on Twitter. Its free and ready in 2 minutes! Paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. A great way to stay on top [...]

Brand-new! Your Museum Media Flipboard Magazine!

(Almost) 4.000 Followers on Twitter! We appreciate your following very very much and hope to keep tweeting useful messages to you all. Send us your remarks, questions and suggestions please: info@museummedia.nl. As a kind of gift and inspired by that marvellous new way of iPad-Magazine-format presentation FLIPBOARD we guide you through a simple 1-2-3 process [...]

Good news for those using NAVI or taking self-guided museum or walking tours

The AT90RF135602 definitely needs a nickname. Even in 8-point type it’s too big a title for the world’s smallest RFID reader! AT90RF135602 see what I mean? is the latest RFID collaboration of California-based Atmel and UK-based Innovision Research & Technology. This single chip RFID reader is a mere 12mm by 12mm by 2mm. For those [...]

Internet For Peace – Become part of the movement to nominate the Net for a Nobel Peace Prize

Sign up for the Internet For Peace and become part of the movement to nominate the Net for a Nobel Peace Prize “We have finally realized that the Internet is much more than a network of computers.It is an endless web of people. Men and women from every corner of the globe areconnecting to one [...]

Digital and new media for museums! – Welkom op deze site!

Message for Dutch speaking visitors: NIEUW: Ga direct naar de Nederlandstalige museummedia.nl. Every day new posts, a forum, information on new devices, handy resources, inspirational case-studies. Stay tuned. Bookmark this site or Subscribe via RSS 1. Comment on the posts 2. Join the Museum Media Forum 3. Mail your ideas, suggestions, reactions: info@museummedia.nl This website [...]

Cleveland Museum of Art quick to try new QR code ad format

The Cleveland Museum of Art is among the first to adopt them in Northeast Ohio as part of its marketing strategy. The art museum chose to experiment with QR codes for the first time to become more attractive to those people who often are early adopters of technology and are willing to try new things, [...]

Multitouch Flash and Flex Tutorials

Here you can find great tutorials for using Flash or Flex on Ideum multitouch tables and screens. These tutorials explain how to implement basic multitouch gestures or create more complex multitouch appplications in Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex. via Multitouch Flash and Flex Tutorials & Support – Gestureworks.

Blueprints of Paradise competition

The Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, Netherlands, in cooperation with African Architecture Matters, organizes a unique competition for architects, artists and thinkers with African roots. The winner receives a cash prize of 7,500 Euros and his or her idea will be presented in a real exhibition in 2011 at the African museum. The jury [...]