Organisations including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum will take part in a series of government-backed demonstrators creating immersive experiences for audiences of the future.
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You can explore Minecraft’s 10-year history in a massive new interactive in-game museum
Minecraft is ten years old this year, and Microsoft is going big on the birthday celebrations – as is only right for one of gaming’s most enduring titles. As part of those festivities, it’s released a wonderful new map, featuring a huge interactive museum themed around the game’s first decade.
Read MoreMarshals Museum funding ideas range from t-shirts to penny jars
Fort Smith residents gathered Thursday (April 25) to discuss ideas of how to raise private funds to help complete the U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith. About 60 people attended a discussion hosted by Believe in Fort Smith and the River Valley Economic Development Council on the topic. “We’re excited to help […]
Read MoreHow to Build a Museum Exhibit in an Hour
The nature of small museums (limited staff, busy schedules) sometimes necessitates that we build an exhibit very quickly. We thought you’d like to see how we do that, so as I dismantled the temporary exhibit we built for our 2009 Garden Gala, I took pictures, which are presented below in […]
Read MoreMeeting Old Masters, Rowing With Vikings — in Augmented Reality
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 […]
Read MoreHow 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Holocaust museums have collected survivor testimonies for years, but digital tools have helped them account for outdated and fragile mediums.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 […]
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