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The Science of Survival Traveling Exhibition

January 26, 2009 – 1:35 PM

This UK based traveling exhibition called The Science of Survival focuses on life in 2050 and how the environment and our natural resources will be less abundant in the future, compared to today. This includes drinking water, food and energy. A goal of this exhibit is to provoke thought and encourage visitors to understand the different [...]

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Hierarchy of Social Participation

July 31, 2008 – 12:13 PM

One of the many blogs we like here at Operand is Nina Simon’s Museum 2.0, which is all about applying Web 2.0 technologies to the museum space. That’s of course an area we are very interested in as well.
I recently came across an old post of Nina’s where she defines a hierarchy of engagement for [...]

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National Gallery Interactive Art at St Pancras

April 24, 2008 – 9:22 AM

Museums have been implementing interactive exhibits for many years, of course. But the adoption has been decidedly uneven throughout the museum world. Not surprisingly, science centers and children’s museums have been an easy fit with new and emerging technologies and have done some of the most interactive projects. Classical art museums have tended to be [...]

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