Museums and the Web 2010Update for the British Museum’s web team

Image cc Intiaz Rahim

Media-FactorySwiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne

Educational use of Powerhouse website

Setting data free is not enough because our audiences may not

get it.

• Recognizing context outside of the museum

• Collecting data from visitors:– Stories, oral history– Images from their phones, e.g., that help us

document our collections

• Serendipity• Communities of hobbiests• Conversations and theatrical experiences• Collecting data while serving up content

Redesign

Sobering social media

Mobile (still chaos)

3D/AR

Year of Art Babble

Conversations

Related linksEducational

Creativity Resource from Denver Art Museum (for classroom use)http://creativity.denverartmuseum.org

Caboodle by Culture24http://www.caboodle.org.uk

Virtual tour of Saint Louis Art Museum for schoolshttp://www.sacreative.com/demos/virtualmovie

SmartHistory – interpretation based on conversationhttp://smarthistory.org

MobileJanet Cardiff theatrical audio walks

http://www.cardiffmiller.com/TAP: Mobile CMS for the iPhone (developed by the IMA)

http://www.slideshare.net/rstein/tap-a-hybrid-cmsmobile-tour-architecture-for-multiplatform-interactive-contentToura

http://www.toura.comNOUSGuide

http://www.nousguide.comSekai Camera AR application from Keio University (Used in France)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1De9YCeKz_A3D

KuratorTool exhibition builderhttp://kuratortool.dk/

First World War Digital Poetry Archive in Second Lifehttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/secondlife