Topic ID #10518 - posted 4/22/2011 2:13 PM
Jennifer Palmer
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Art Museums Go Digital For the Wired
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Art Museums Go Digital For the Wired
Use of technology saves space, attracts new visitors
Susan Logue | Washington, D.C. April 22, 2011
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is not your typical museum. It’s an open storage facility at the Smithsonian American Art Museum which houses 3,300 works of art, leaving little room for written information.
"All the interpretation has to be digital and we have a great deal of it," says Georgina Goodlander, who was tasked with finding a way to get around the space problem.
Her solution allows visitors to access information about the works and the 1,200 artists who created them at one of 10 computer stations located throughout the space.
Read more here.
Use of technology saves space, attracts new visitors
Susan Logue | Washington, D.C. April 22, 2011
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is not your typical museum. It’s an open storage facility at the Smithsonian American Art Museum which houses 3,300 works of art, leaving little room for written information.
"All the interpretation has to be digital and we have a great deal of it," says Georgina Goodlander, who was tasked with finding a way to get around the space problem.
Her solution allows visitors to access information about the works and the 1,200 artists who created them at one of 10 computer stations located throughout the space.
Read more here.
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