what will the museum of the future be like?
In Museum vs. Out of Museum experience and interaction
The in museum experience vs. the out-of-museum experience is an idea which really interests me. As I have researched and seen, it seems that everyone building technology is focused on the in-museum-experience (ie Tours like Guidebycell Attenna and acousticguide.) what are new ways to connect with visitors once they leave . Thoughts?
I have a couple and would love to share.
I have a couple and would love to share.
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Permalink Reply by Rohn Jay Miller on -
Luke--I'm currently working on a major art museum internet re-design, which includes both online and in-house experiences. We've done some exciting audience research for the project, which I'm hoping to share in some form late this year.
Meanwhile, there's an interesting study on how users navigate the online / in-museum and online / in-library experiences, from the University of North Carolina, : http://interconnectionsreport.org/ It's called "The IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the Internet," from Fall 2008. Lot's of good insights here, especially about what I call the emerging "hyper-user," for whom Internet connectivity--via computer, iPhone, PDA, iPod, etc--is becoming a daily companion. Within this group there is a strong "culture-seeker" contingent who are using their hyper-connectivity to manage finding and related to cultural information and events, and also to more and more become content creators.
Hope this is helpful.
Cheers-RJ
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Permalink Reply by Luke on -
RJ, Thanks for sharing the research--supports the cause! I have also built a patent pending technology that harnesses the areas you have mentioned. I would love to connect and conspire. You can hit me up at Luke.Pellegrini@gmail.com
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Permalink Reply by Rohn Jay Miller on
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Sorry, the end of my original response got a bit mangled as the keys flew. It should read:
Within this group there is a strong "culture-seeker" contingent who are using their hyper-connectivity to find and manage content related to cultural information and events, and--recently to also more and more become content creators.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Guerin on -
Luke,
I too am interested in this topic and have coined the term "Interpretopia" (Interpretive Utopia) to represent the spatial regions of contect-aware interpretive access. This region can be an exhibit's discovery drawer, a museum, or a walking/riding/sailing/driving/flying/or otwise mobile tour.
My background includes the development of mobile media like the ARIF (Apple Newton based device) and SIguide and both of these were early attempts to continue the visitor experience out side the venue.
To this end, I am currently working on an iPOD tour for a landmarked building and a historic house tour in the Hudson Valley. My dream is to create a GPS/Cellphone based system, that is able to geotag voice, text, and images for peer produced content. AND work with local experts and museums who supply vetted "gold-standard" information like I developed with the Smithsonian.
I have a friend working on the voice-side of cellphone geotagging, not trivial apparently, and I've done some POI/KML work on Google.
I have some business-plan ideas and reserved urls toward this end.
Drop me a line,
Scott
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Barns on -
Hi Scott, Luke and others
In line with this discussion, I'm not sure if you've come across the reference earlier on this site to ABC Sydney Sidetracks (http://www.abc.net.au/sidetracks). It uses collections from Australia (ABC, National Film and Sound Archive, Powerhouse Museum and a number of other agencies) to offer an experience of 'history where it happened'. This uses Google Maps as well as a mobile app. I have a particular interest in the use of sound/audio archives here, including ambient, street level recordings re-cast back to their original locations. Hopefully we'll move to an ipod platform as well soon!
I think the movement of archival collections into the whole pervasive/mobile computing sphere is not only fascinating but really important to challenging some of the emerging interface conventions and presumptions about the (historical) creation of spatial/city form etc. Anyway this is my PhD topic so if you'd like to continue this discussion, I'm keen!
Sarah (researcher and producer, Sydney Sidetracks)
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Permalink Reply by Luke on
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Hey Sarah, I would love to speak to you more on the subject, how can we get in touch. I apologize for not getting back sooner--as I have been in SF on business....
You can reach me at Luke.Pellegrini@gmail.com
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Permalink Reply by AIF on
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Sarah - if you don't mind me asking, what exactly is your dissertation topic and could I maybe email you about where you are looking for primary sources of research. I will be focusing my MA thesis on social media and museums but finding research has not been easy in the U.S.
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Permalink Reply by Tom Bennett on -
I have only a moment here before heading off to work, but I wanted to voice that I am intensely interested in this subject. On behalf of two museums here in Alaska, we have an area of 1.7 million square kilometers to cover in trying to reach out to widely separated communities and schools. For the present time, this would appear to address our needs.
Keep up the good work gentlemen!
Tom Bennett
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Permalink Reply by Mia on -
It's something I've been interested in for a long time, I've blogged various ideas and examples at http://openobjects.blogspot.com/search/label/outside%20museum%20walls but I've never had a chance to work it into official projects.
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Permalink Reply by Beth Harris on -
I agree -- I was at a meeting this week and all everyone could talk about was bringing people to the museum (related to the revenue discussion). Errrr! The question of how to connect with visitors and create new opportunities for members who do NOT come to the museum, except perhaps once or twice, so their experience is through the technology, through the web...this is what I am most interested in...and extending the extending the educational mission of the institution in this way.
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Permalink Reply by Luke on
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Well I look forward to hearing back from you Beth! And of course talking to you more about everything! I would love to set up a chat time...The MOMA has done a great job and has taking the Greatest leap yet by a museum. More than half-way there!
Looking forward :)
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Just a side article I was reading the other week related to this topic a bit:
http://blog.brightkite.com/2009/02/11/how-the-mattress-factory-art-...
The museum there in Pittsburgh has live text messages up on a screen from those in the exhibition space as well as from those that have left and are reflecting back on what they saw for other. It's more of a hybrid of the in/out-museum-experience and not so much a focus on the "out" part but I thought I'd share in case it inspires another direction of ideas on how things could work.
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