Author: konstantin

New Directions in Interactive Media for Museums

The challenges of integrating interactive media into the museum experience are manifold. New technologies can engage but also potentially alienate museum visitors who have different cultural backgrounds and varying degrees of knowledge about the art form, history, and ideas involved. But at its best, interactive media that balances the creativity of right-brain thinking with the deductive logic of left-brain analysis can help with the intuitive discovery of unexpected connections and create newfound meaning. Read...

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Museums in a Digital World

A new special issue of ICOM’s peer-reviewed journal, Museum International, is dedicated to the theme “Museums in a Digital World”. This issue includes an article by Ana Carvalho and Alexandre Matos (ICOM Portugal) about the Mu.SA project. The article is entitled: “Museum Professionals in a Digital World: Insigths from a Case Study in Portugal” and explores the key findings of the first phase of the research for the Portuguese case study. Museum International is published by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Blackwell Publishing. The journal promotes the exchange of expertise and knowledge in the museums and heritage field on an international...

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Virtual Reality explores sunken shipwrecks at the RZGM, Mainz

From September we cordially invite you to explore the sunken wreck of an antique merchant ship virtually in the Museum of Ancient Shipping. At the same time we would like to invite you to participate in our scientific study, with which we want to examine the new format for its effects and effects in the mediation work of the museum. That’s why we call you to test with us the newly installed “Virtual Reality” application....

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