The document appears to be notes from Michael Parry, the Director of Public Engagement at the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, and includes references to early audio guides from 1952 onward at various museums, a book and CD-ROM from the Powerhouse Museum, and a reflection on how virtual audiences are essentially the same as traditional audiences, just using different platforms.

1. Michael Parry
Director Public Engagement
Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences
MAAS = Powerhouse Museum + Sydney Observatory + Discovery
Centre
michael.parry@phm.gov.au
@vaguelym
this deck is on slideshare

2. Guide-a-phone, American Museum of Natural History 1954

3. First? Audio Guide 1952
Stedelijk Museum,
Netherlands

4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org

5. Australian Centre for the Moving Image
15secondplace.acmi.net.a
u

6. tpdsaa.tumblr.com/post/2731809145

7. p242 “Yesterday’s Tomorrows”
Davidson/Webber 2005

9. “Know-how”
Powerhouse Museum CDROM
1996

11. Horseless Carriage?
Horseless Carriages =
Virtual Audiences
Eventually we didn’t
need the horseless
anymore
Meccano Horseless Carriage
Powerhouse Collection
Registration number 2013/120/10

12. Virtual (Digital?) Audiences?
Some news: they’re just audiences
They just happen to be using different
platforms…