what will the museum of the future be like?
What is the future of the audio tour?
I'm doing a piece for NPR's All Tech Considered Blog on the rise of the cell phone tour as a replacement for the traditional handset-rented audio tour in museums, zoos, etc.
As I understand it, even cellphone tours are becoming dated technology. So, what is the next step in audio tours? Are there some examples of cutting edge technology used in museums? Is there a good way to differentiate information for kids and for adults?
Please include name and contact information if you'd like to be quoted for the article.
As I understand it, even cellphone tours are becoming dated technology. So, what is the next step in audio tours? Are there some examples of cutting edge technology used in museums? Is there a good way to differentiate information for kids and for adults?
Please include name and contact information if you'd like to be quoted for the article.
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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Snijder on -
Please take a look at our Dutch iphone app Museumgids, This not only gives away location and adress but is also connected to audio/video tours hosted on Artcast. As a museum you can log on to a background CMS that allows you to correct and ad more data to the app. Also an agenda function is added that gives away al the new expo's. if you do not have an iphone but some other smart phone you can also use a mobile website like this http://teylers.m.artcast.nl see Iphone simulation for a clobal idea. We are very intrested in rolling this out clobaly, museums can contact us for a free log in an add there museum, only placing audio and video will cost money but this is only bacause of internet traffic prices.
see this presentation Artcast
You can contact me at Jeffrey at artcast.nl for more info Artcast is now using a database of 1253 museums in Holland
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Permalink Reply by Kare Anderson on -
Living in Sausalito where the inventor of the first museum audio tours were created I love the many thoughtful ideas here at Museum 3.0
Re your article last year you may want to do an update on how Stickybits - even Foursquare - might play a role Ryan
http://shareable.net/blog/stickybits-spimes-and-sharing
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Permalink Reply by Loic Tallon on -
I agree about the thoughtful quality of the discussion Kate, and about applications like Foursquare and Stickybits having increasing potential in this field.
Picking up on your point about first museum audio tours, though Antenna Theatre/(Audio) and Chris Tellis deserves real credit for significantly advancing the cause of creativity in audio tours - particular highlights I think are the audio tour of the De Young Museum's Nijinski exhibition in 1985(ish?), and the Alcatraz permanent tour which is still used today - a title of 'inventors' of audio tours is probably better attributed to the team at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, who installed an audio tour back in 1952.
I wrote a little about my research into that audio tour at http://musematic.net/2009/05/19/about-that-1952-sedelijk-museum-aud...
And the article includes original news footage of the audio guide.
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Permalink Reply by JanetC on -
Ryan
I just came across this blog that you might find useful. It seems to be suggesting that Audio guides and their equivalents are not that popular with core visitors, and are more for an older demographic. http://blog.orselli.net/2010/06/screened-out-preferences-for-techno...
Have others found this to be the case?
Janet
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Permalink Reply by Kare Anderson on
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hewing back to the core innovative theme of this delightful site i think that museums have the opportunity to take guides outside their walls and to offer mobile phone apps tied to FourSquare (or a competing tech) and augmented reality to offer people a way to learn about places they are walking by (the history, architecture, nature/environment or whatever slice of museum work reflects their mission).
With this approach museum staff could turn to experts they know to co-create themed walkabout tours - offering a new way:
• for people to learn outside the museum
• and for the museum to have a new profit center
• and for the public to learn about the museum as the experience such tours are shared, word of mouth and covered by the media
I started writing about the use of such tech back in 2008
http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/09/05/how-the-mobile-“we”-discover-riot-buy-protest-protect-and-play-together/
and later as you can see if your search "foursquare" in this blog: http://howwepartner.com/
I have no biz relationship with any of the firms I highlight with these what-if dream scenarios btw.
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Permalink Reply by Emily Smeaton on -
There was a theatre piece at the Barbican recently using private audio commands to create an ensemble piece. Raises some possibilities for other forums? http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=9959
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Permalink Reply by Fleur Rondoni on -
I am visiting MONA in Tasmania later this year and have heard that "The O" is pretty impressive:
http://mona.net.au/the-o/
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