Walk through the doors of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City these days and it’s possible to travel back more than 100 years. Visitors can walk up to the original front doors no longer easily visible from outside the museum on East 36th Street, view a hidden staircase in […]
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How Technology Helps Preserve the Testimony of Holocaust Survivors
Holocaust museums have collected survivor testimonies for years, but digital tools have helped them account for outdated and fragile mediums. Since it opened its doors 23 years ago, Holocaust Museum Houston has collected 298 testimonies from survivors in the area. Kelly Zúñiga, the museum’s chief executive officer, said that many of the […]
Read MoreAnno 1800 Zoo and Museum Guide – How to Get Animals and Artifacts, Increase Tourism
Zoos and Museums in Anno 1800 tend to generate a lot of revenue as these places are visited a lot. These places will also help you increase tourism in your city. Locals would now have a spot where they could go for entertainment purposes. These two spots will also help […]
Read MoreOutdated Rules Are Killing Museums—Here’s How Things Can Change
A number of art museums over the past decade have run into financial trouble, for reasons ranging from declining donations to adverse local situations (Detroit, for example), as well as increasing storage costs for housing ever-increasing acquisitions. Often, as is the case of the Berkshire Museum, factors are out of […]
Read MoreMuseums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful.
SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the exhibition “Snap+Share,” visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will see a small cat staring down at them from a crudely cut rectangular hole in the ceiling. This is “Ceiling Cat,” a 2016 work by Eva and Franco Mattes, who have […]
Read MoreThis Open Source Software Could Make Museum Websites More Accessible
Many museums ensure that individuals with disabilities can experience art in person by providing special resources, from in-gallery audio descriptions to tactile tours. But most can benefit from improving accessibility for their virtual visitors. The MCA Chicago’s website is the first by a museum that has “intentionally created visual descriptions […]
Read MoreAn Old Master of Painting Was a Master of Marketing
WASHINGTON — Imagine a business-minded artist on deadline, working in a studio with an army of assistants to produce huge works. He’s savvy about publicity and about developments in technology that make it easier for him to get his images out into the world. He’ll agree to an impossible deadline […]
Read MoreGolden rule: plan to redefine ‘treasure’ to help UK museums buy finds
When a breathtaking Roman helmet was discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in Cumbria in 2010, it sparked a desperate fundraising campaign to try to keep it on public display. The Crosby Garrett helmet was one of the most spectacular Roman artefacts ever found in Britain, but because it was made of […]
Read Moretod’s and andrea caputo construct series of prehistoric shelters in no_code exhibition
situated in the spacious, light-filled le cavallerizze in milan’s leonardo da vinci national science and technology museum, no_code comprises a series of various types of shelters, taking visitors back to different origins through several geographical regions. from the large yurts on the mongolian steppes through to huts in west african villages, examples of […]
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know about Collecting Virtual-Reality Art
How does one collect virtual reality? The question can start to sound like a koan—or perhaps the title of an unpublished Philip K. Dick novella. Yet as the possibilities of virtual reality develop, and VR artwork along with them, the art world is forced to wrestle with how to sell […]
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