Museum labels are written according to the assumed knowledge and needs of a single restricted audience model. However, each visitor has unique reasons for visiting a museum or for being attracted to a particular exhibit. In addition, each visitor has unique knowledge, abilities, needs and limitations. In order to make labels more informative, interesting and useful to the individual visitor, la...

The museum offers a starting point from which to examine the fundamental nature of collaborative work and interdisciplinary scholarship. This article examines the socio-technological impact of introducing advanced information technology into the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It addresses the implementation of such methodologies as computer...

Utopia House Museum is a community art education project. In the context of growing worldwide emphasis on concept arts and cultural education, current state participation among local citizens in Barcelona still not promising. To address this issue, "Museum-House" developed with aim bringing museums into creating an outreach community. However, it more easily adapted to needs than museum radiate...

This paper deals with some characteristics of museum objects within the museological context and it tries to explain reasons why museum information systems are hardly ever covering all aspects of museum work and why it is not always easy to document even the complete physical description of objects in the museum information systems. Semological concepts were used to analyse the museum object an...

Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA b Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt, Germany Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland Naturhistorisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Postboks 1172, Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway Museum of Anthropol...

A Museum of Natural Heritage is quite different from a traditional Cultural Heritage museum. In fact, most part of the contents of such kind of Museum are in a natural environment unlike the traditional museum that exhibits the contents present in their building. This kind of museum, managed by Universities, is also devoted to a larger non-expert public and to University students and researcher...

In the past few years, museum visualization systems have become a hot topic that attracts many researchers’ interests. Several systems provide Web services for browsing museum collections through the Web. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent museum system for history museum artifacts, and described a study in which we enable access to China and Japan cultural heritage information from two ...

My inquiry examines art's institutional arrangements through the present character of modern and contemporary art museums. This examination is positioned initially with the postmodernist theoretical evaluation of the art museum which argues the rupture of the modernist art episteme signaled the end of the museum and the project of constructing art's history. I limited my inquiry to museums loca...

This thesis examines the context of use of mobile multimedia handheld guides and applications as an alternative interpretation medium in the museum environment. Its main research hypothesis is that the use of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and the AR metaphor as a principal component for the conceptual and interaction design of mobile museum guide applications could greatly facilita...

The Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of Masterworks in the Natural Sciences and Technology) in Munich was established in 1906. lts very name is indicative: unlike museums of industry, an older type, the new institution sought not only to foster the public's interest in technology and the sciences, but also to spur the creation of new masterwork...