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.

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.

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

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

From museumlab.org:

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.