A Grand Museum of the Internet – an institution dedicated to preserving and elevating the artifacts of the defining culture-maker of our time – would just make the web even less about its users, and even more homogenizing and exclusionary
Participants cite positive opportunities for remote working, interviews and digital offerings. Findings from a consultation by Accentuate, a specialist disability programme within the organisation Screen South, offer new insights into ...
Physical closures and capacity reductions due to COVID-19 forced museums and galleries to find new ways to showcase content and programming to a greater audience, accelerating the shift towards digital. While articles abound about the ...
Patrice is a small, sleek robot that is opening up the International Spy Museum to hospitalized children and young adults who can’t physically get to the building. This has proved to be especially important during the pandemic, when ...
Envision a group of schoolchildren standing before you, giddy with anticipation and excitement. In front of them are two elongated rectangular wooden doors, which, once opened, will transport them to another time. The doors swing open ...
Virtual museum tours allow you to experience being inside museums, looking at the exhibits, and walking their hallways through digital displays. Think of it like an MMORPG where you get to move your character within a virtual world. ...
Virtual docents are trained on how to interact with museum goers through a screen, and are placed at three popular stations around the Udvar Hazy Center. Jim Preston/National Air and Space Museum If you’ve never visited the ...
On a virtual field trip, students search their screens for signs of movement as they try to spot the elusive macroinvertebrates lurking in a pond water sample. A grid appears over the screen with the numbers one through six in each ...
The top 45 museums in the US hold endowments of more than $40bn in aggregate. Unfortunately, [most] museums are invested in the very same types of companies—tobacco, weapons manufacturing, and fossil fuels—that are frequently protested ...
Last month the Alliance released the results of “Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on People in the Museum Field.” Respondents (the majority of who identified themselves as full-time or part-time museum staff) tell us that the pandemic ...
