I had a great time at the Friday reception at the Musée d'art Contemporain - loved the Geoffrey Farmer exhibit and had great discussion with Robin from New York and Floris from Amsterdam... here is a recent review of the exhibit:

http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Departments/ExhibitionReviews/6-107706.html 

Cheers,

The MUSE awards were announced at AAM this week, and the list represents an interesting overview of museum technology activity.

Here's a project that wasn't recognised [something that surprised me a bit]: The milti-touch tables at the Denver Art Museum.

david and i are completing an article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science .... it's got me wondering about what the 'general, intelligent reader' might want to know about museums and the web. 

i'm thinking we need to answer the following questions:

Given the interest in the search sessions at MW2008, and the follow-up discussion on Seb's, Nate's, and Brian's blogs, i though it would be useful to summarize a bit of the reading i've been doing lately for the phd + steve.museum research.

Directly relevant, is a longitudinal meta-study of the end-user search literature by Karen Markey, published in two parts in mid-2007 [in english, she compared and analysed the results of a lot of studies, conducted over a long time: 25 years].

here's the rationale -- and history -- behind my interest in the cc+ framework. something that i think museums should be looking seriously at. it was spurred by an exchange on the MCG list and still bears a bit of that context in its tone.

On Friday, 11th April, I held a mini-workshop together with Otmar Moritsch. We were showing how to use a software tool to create three-dimensional exhibitions.
Some of the audience were interested in the web site, so I thought I could use this way to give you the URL. Also comments of any kind are very much appreciated!

The website: http://www.exhibition3d.at

You will also have the possibility to download a demoversion of the tool!