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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

A digital history of the world! A Short Introduction To Historypin

This is what we mean by ‘Crowdsourcing’. Historypin is a digital time machine that creates a new way for the world to see and share history. It was created by We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google. Look at this fine animation: Historypin has 12554 photos and stories pinned so far. ‘We Are [...]

Augmented Reality for your museum

Augmented reality can be a new feature for exposing cultural news and locations. Several companies are exploring this new technique: Layar, Wikitude. Junaio… Layar is one of the augmented reality browsers for Android and iPhone. Soon on Nokia. This latest video shows daily scenario’s of how Layar is used: to find a place to eat, [...]

Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists

For artists, being included in a museum exhibition generally means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious art gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are aiming to short-circuit that exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much the same way that other hierarchical systems have been blown apart [...]

The Textile Museum of Canada’s online Social Fabric platform works ingeniously well

Social Fabric works, and works well, because it acknowledges that no online presence can replace the visceral experience of visiting the Toronto museum, and instead opts to recreate the conversations one has with fellow visitors. I guarantee that even if you’ve only ever been to one Textile Museum show, at that show someone asked, “Would [...]

Benefits of twittering during Conference Museums and the Web MW2010!

Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. On Twitter @museummedia asked MW2010 participants following question:”Do you experience Twittering as [...]