The one hundredth anniversary of the British Museums Association, the association of museum curators, took place in 1989, and was designated Museums Year. Throughout the country museums mounted special exhibitions to publicise their role. As I am the current curator now is a good time to give a brief overview of the history of the anatomy museum at Queen's and to assess its role now and in the ...

The creation of astronomy educational content is sometimes a difficult task, especially in alternative learning environments such as a science museum. Many people visiting science museums have an interest in astronomy but are not specialists in this area. It should be interesting to find out if museum curators could make the knowledge that is present in museums more relevant to people's daily l...

We present ARCHIE, a research project which aims to discover how handheld guides can be used as powerful instruments to enhance the visitor’s learning experience. Although mobile devices are becoming a common aid to support a museum visit, they often lead to an individualized experience. However, most people do not visit a museum alone, and recent research has pointed out that social interactio...

It can be argued that the business of museums is information. Information is of paramount importance in fulfilling the basic functions of collecting, recording, preserving, managing, researching and communicating. Museums need to manage many types of information in the operation of facilities , fulfilling mandates, administering finances, getting members, soliciting funds, acquiring objects, or...

The development of curatorial work practices will be very important for the museums, arts, and culture. However, it is undeniable that studies understanding are still not optimal in Indonesia. Awareness realm responsibility curator also sometimes poorly understood by public practitioners themselves. This vacancy becomes an obstacle profession independent museum curator. Where no longer seen onl...

MICHAEL P. HAMMER, MARK ADAMS & RALPH FOSTER 1 Natural Sciences, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646 Darwin NT 0810, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Ichthyology Section, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: ralph.fo...

To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the Museum of Science, Boston. The characters use natural language interaction and have near photoreal appearance to increase and presents reports from museum staff on visitor reaction.

The Lord Howe Island stick insect, Dryococelus australis, was once common on the island but was driven to extinction after the arrival of ship rats in the early 20th century [1, 2]. It was thought to be extinct for decades, until a tiny population of similar-looking stick insects was discovered 20 km away, on the islet of Ball's Pyramid, in 2001 [2]. Individuals from this population are current...

The experience of art emerges from the interaction of various cognitive and affective processes. The unfolding of these processes in time and their relation with viewing behavior, however, is still poorly understood. Here we examined the effect of context on the relation between the experience of art and viewing time, the most basic indicator of viewing behavior. Two groups of participants view...

Museum visitors can exploit the fast technological evolution of recent mobile devices in order to receive interactive support while freely moving about in a museum, thus enriching their experience. In our work we provide users with multimedia location-dependent information. We detect automatically users’ position by interacting with ad-hoc infrared beacons installed at the entrance of each Muse...