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 ...

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...

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.

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...

* Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark † Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, N-0318 Oslo, Norway ‡ Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, 6102 Perth, Australia § Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, N-7491 Trondheim, Nor...

Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, West 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA (RSV) Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, NHB 390, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA (KMH) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and J. F. Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA (...

ULF S. JOHANSSON,* PER G. P. ERICSON, JON FJELDS A & MARTIN IRESTEDT Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm 10405, Sweden Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm 10405, ...

In an one year lasting project at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven a digital learning game for the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven was developed. It is targeted to school pupils in the age between 10 and 14 and should explain the importance of the cog for trading activities between Hanse cities in the 14th century. More detailed learning objectives were defined through a ...

Museum curators are interested in understanding what is happening in their museum: what exhibitions and exhibits do visitors attend to, what exhibits visitors spend most time at, what hours of the day are most busy at certain areas in the museum and more. We use automatic tracking of visitors’ position and movements at the museum to log visitor information. Using this information, we provide an...