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Mobile Interpretation conference at Tate Modern

From Audiotours to iPhones

Thursday 4 September, Workshop (by invitation), 10.00-18.00,  East Room Tate Modern
Friday 5 September 2008, Public Conference, 10.00-18.00,  Starr Auditorium Tate Modern

Are museums ready to play in the digital age? Rapid advances in technology are making the traditional audiotour increasingly redundant, and visitors are now offered sophisticated multimedia tours on PDAs, iPods and even mobile phones.
This symposium is for museum workers who want to know more about how the new generation of mobile devices can benefit their institutions. International museum professionals with in-depth experience in handheld program design, development and evaluation lead the day’s discussions.
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[murmur] turns five

If you attended the ICHIM07 Conference Reception, you may remember seeing a giant, green, ear-shaped, metal sign with a mobile phone number and the words “hear you are” stamped on it in the atrium of the MaRS Collaboration Centre in Toronto. [murmur], a documentary oral history project, created the distinct marker.

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US Phones in Canada

So I've done some work on figuring out what's the best way to keep in touch while I'm in Montreal. I'm attaching my research below, and feel free to add comments to this post about your own carriers.

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Mini-Masterpieces for your phone: from the Boston Museum of Fine Art

MFA Mobile: Just Browse, Order and Download.

In another example of the inside-out museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston has made collection-based mobile phone wallpapers available from their web site. Just Browse, Order and Download, and the fee appears on your mobile phone bill: $1.99 for a single download, or $4.99 a month to get 5 (plus one bonus).

You can also sign up for text alerts about what's on at the museum: events, exhibits and concerts, as well as exclusive offers and discounts. Who could resist that!

i think i was joking about tea on Seb's Chumby -- but now I want a picture of a phone on my phone ... Is there one in the BMFA collection guys?

/jt

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MFA Mobile

MFA Mobile

Just Browse, Order and Download. See http://mfamobile.mfa.org/

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Amsterdam Museums go Mobile

From museumlab.org:

KPN Mobile Museum Guide

KPN Mobile Museum Guide

 

Readers of this blog have seen a recent surge in news on the Amsterdam Museum Night. The latest instalment in this series is the KPN Mobile Museum Guide. Visitors of the Museum Night can text 'n8' to 4628 to receive the complete program on their mobile phone. The Mobile Museum Guide includes an interactive map of Amsterdam with all the museums, the n8 blog, nachtgeluiden, a quiz and an interactive tour with Blue Tooth, designed for the Amsterdam City Archives.

In the future, the n8 intends to build upon the current infrastructure to launch more services, such as streaming audio and video, mapping and tagging. The Mobile Museum Guide was launched on 24 October. The Amsterdam Museum Night will take place on Saturday 3 November.

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Publication Announcement: Digital Technology in Japanese Museums (Journal of Museum Education, Vol. 32. No.1)

Publication Announcement:

Journal of Museum Education, Spring 2007, Vol. 32 No. 1, has just been published. Digital Technology in Japanese Museums Guest Editors: Makoto Manabe and Lois Lydens, National Science Museum, Tokyo Summary Increasingly, people are incorporating digital technology into their everyday lives, andmuseums have responded to this technology explosion with a multitude of applications. Within the past ten years, digital technology has become a watchword for museum planners, and professionals across Japan have been trying out new technologies in the museum environment. This issue features a discussion of different devices and their applications in art, science, and history museums. Do new technologies enhance or distract from a visitor’s experience? Do they improve accessibility or make the visitor confused? The content of this issue focuses on the design, description and evaluation of several projects that were conducted recently in different museums throughout Japan.

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