LA is opening a Museum of Selfies – here’s what you’ll find inside
In the modern age of selfie sticks, photo-sharing obsessions and social media addictions, one museum is looking to embrace them all.
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Author: Christiana Polycarpou
Why Virtual Reality is Important in Educating Children
The future for the world with all these possibilities, but children can even create their own ideas of how they want to use technology.
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German academy launches project to document Arab and Islamic heritage
The Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany has launched a digital platform to document millions of books and manuscripts from the Arab and Islamic world, Al-Jazeera reported today.
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The ViMM Definition of a Virtual Museum
The ViMM Definition of a Virtual Museum A museum is defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) as a ‘non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment’. A virtual museum (VM) is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum through personalization, interactivity, user experience and richness of content. Both the ‘physical’ museum (PhM)...
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Victoria Chang on how Vive’s Arts Program is Expanding to Museums Around the World
From Life exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts is exploring virtual reality as a new art form.
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