The Future of Exhibiting
Digital Technologies and Their Ramifications
for Museums and Communities
Agnes Stauber . Media Producer . Fowler Museum at UCLA
November 17, 2010
Field Work and Research
Resulting in Exhibitions and Publications
Audience and Museum’s Responsibilities
Scholars
Tools for Research
Teachers
Tools for Research and Education
General Public
Tools for Exploration, Education, and Research
Collections Online
Object Information
Context Information
Experiment with Points of Access
Add Rich Context Information
Games for Exploration
Online Exhibitions
Technologies for Interpretation
In-Gallery
Videos, Audio Guides, Multimedia Guides
Online
Websites, Mobile Web
Interactive Maps, Multi-Touch Tables, etc.
Technologies for Interpretation
How much is too much?
Content – Audience – Delivery
Multiple Voices, Different Perspectives
Content
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One Size Fits All?
Audience
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Target Groups
Target Groups
Where? What? How?
Delivery
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Research – Exhibition – Show time – After life
Phases of Content Curation
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Presentation – Interaction – Feedback
Audience and Collaborators
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Agnes Stauber_____astauber@arts.ucla.edu
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Website References in PPT
• http://www.textilemuseum.ca/collection/
• http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/
• http://www.canadiantapestry.ca/
• http://www.africanart.org/education/
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
• http://www.americanindian.si.edu/listening/
• http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yiwarra_kuju/
• http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/
• http://smarthistory.org/
• http://www.artbabble.org/
• http://www.nmai.si.edu/
• http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/young_explorers1.aspx
• http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/
• http://lacma.wordpress.com/
• http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/
• http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/
• http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/seductive_subversion/wiki/
Museum and Technology Blogs
• http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsbl
og/
• http://musematic.net/
• http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/
• http://www.mediacombo.net/blog/
Other Resouces
• Horizon Report for Museums
http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/8049
• Awards for Museum Media
http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse/
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/best/in
dex.html

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