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Until Tuesday, if history buffs wanted a glimpse of the Israel Museum's vast collection — including a 9,000-year-old carved human face found in the Judean Desert — they would have to travel to Jerusalem to see it.

Now, through a joint venture with Google Inc., people from around the world can examine the ancient Neolithic artifact, which the museum says is the oldest in the world, in greater detail than ever before with a simple click of a mouse from the comfort of their own home.

The mask is just one of 520 objects made available as part of the museum's partnership with the Google Art Project, an online compilation of high-resolution images of artwork from galleries worldwide, as well as a virtual tour of the museums using the high-tech giant's Google Street technology.

The Israel Museum was among 151 museums in 40 countries taking part in the second wave of the project on Tuesday. It was first launched last February in just 17 museums, including the Tate Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Uffizi in Florence, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

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Visitor experience hierarchy

Did the visitor:

attend? (physically)

participate? (mentally)

make sense of the place? (spiritually)

connect with the place? (holistically)

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Natural History Museum, London.

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Geological Museum

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New York Subway creates smartphone app for subway station art.

New York Subway as its own art museum.

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basic categories include:

collections management

data management

user interface

querying

reports

technical requirements (e.g. training)

systems administration (e.g. security)

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The Smithsonian in Washington is showcasing 80 video games from the last few decades played on 20 computer and gaming systems, including Pac-Man.

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1990-03-18: @gardnermuseum theft

Thieves dressed as police officers broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. After holding the security guards in the basement, the thieves stole a dozen or so works of art worth over $300 million. The Museum never recovered the art, some of which included a Vermeer, Rembrandt and Manet.

Gardner has posted a $5 million reward leading to the recovery of the works in good condition.

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from 2011-06-14: pros and cons of having music in museums

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RedEye On Demand, a digital manufacturing service and business unit of Stratasys, Inc., has collaborated on a project with the Smithsonian to create one of the largest 3D-printed, museum-quality historical replicas in the world.

The life-size statue of Thomas Jefferson is a central piece of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) exhibition, “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty,” which runs through October 14, 2012.

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The true interpreter will not rest at any dictionary definition. Besides being ready in his information and studious in his use of research, he goes beyond the apparent to the real, beyond a part to the whole, beyond a truth to a more important truth.

Freeman Tilden

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"stuff museum people say" made by the atlanta history center

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Museum as an intermediary?

the museum as a starting point building for exploring the local community?

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I see the successful future museum as one that embraces the culture of the open, collaborative Web, while still maintaining authority. I call this concept, "open authority," a model that achieves a balance by bringing together the museum’s established expertise with the contributions of broad audiences via the open Web.

Lori Byrd Phillips, US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation (2012-02-21)

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70-3rd graders were the first ones to really take the piece for a spin today. 

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an example of a participatory museum exhibit with minimal technology required