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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. Our work with museums and cultural intuitions goes way beyond websites with easy-to-find visitor information (though that’s important too!) Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art

The Verge

Chris Torres, the artist behind Nyan Cat, has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. I’m looking at [the GIF] right now, and I’m like, ‘Yes, it looks good,’” Torres said in a phone call with The Verge. “I The auction begins at 1PM ET today and will run for around 24 hours.

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QR Codes and Visitor Motivation: Tell Them What They'll Get with that Shiny Gadget

Museum 2.0

We just opened new exhibitions at The Museum of Art & History , including one on woodworking that includes QR codes. When a person with a smartphone and a QR reader app scans one of these codes, it can launch a webpage on the phone, pulling up videos, images, and other additional multi-media content. I presume that most Museum 2.0

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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the entries of what you can read on the Walker Blog, may appear at first glance to be mundane details of cube life , but then you remember that it is a museum blog and it makes the institution seem more human. You might be interested in the Walker's cell phone-based audio guide: Art on Call. I saw your posts on Art Mobs.

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Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition

Tech Soup

artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. We thought, Oh, how cool that I can carry my phone around and I can have this conversation. The Dallas Museum. But beware of sensory overload.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum.