Late last week Richard Urban of Musematic announced the inaugural meeting of the “Museums in Second Life” group. In case you haven’t heard of Second Life, it is 3-D virtual online world maintained and governed by a company called Linden Research, but built and owned entirely by users. More than 300,000 people currently [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Museums'
Museums in the Metaverse
October 3rd, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Museums · Public History
What is a Museum?
September 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments
This one comes from Found History reader Tim, who wanted to hear my thoughts on NPR’s recent story about the Museum of Online Museums (MOOM), a directory of online collections. Aside from being a treasure trove of found history, MOOM raises the question—at least for NPR’s editors—of what constitutes a museum. Should we [...]
Tags: Audio · Collecting · Digital Humanities · Museums