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  Tehmina Goskar 2:01 pm on 24 April, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Byzantium, exhibition (2), medieval, museum (3), Persian, review   

  Exhibition reviews on Creative Spaces 

  I thought about using Past Thinking as the place for exhibition and book reviews on museumy subjects that interest me, but instead I would like to contribute to content creation on Creative Spaces (National Museums Online Learning Project) particularly when the reviews related to items in the nine museum collections it hosts.

  I have recently contributed two reviews, and added them to two groups I run. The first is a short response to Shah ‘Abbas at the British Museum and the second is in response to Byzantium at the Royal Academy.

  Read response to Shah Abbas in the Iran and Persian Culture group.

  Read response to Byzantium in the Medieval and Byzantine Objects group.

  Please note: For some reason my paragraphing is not preserved and so the Byzantium review might be a little hard-going. If you happen to read it and would prefer to read it in a more sensible format, please leave a comment here, or on Creative Spaces.

   

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  Tehmina Goskar 2:38 pm on 19 March, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: creative spaces (3), italy, medieval, mediterranean, networks, notebooks   

  I like Creative Spaces 

  Creative Spaces does. No poking, no sheep throwing, no nonsense.

  The two posts below and the several comments are enough to set out the different views of Creative Spaces, or the National Museums Online Learning Project. I am not going to respond to the various criticisms leveled at the project as they do a good job of speaking for themselves. This is about my experience so far, over the last two weeks or so of actually using the site. Many of the buggy features have already been pointed out by Tom and by and large I agree with those (strange URLs and registering procedure, the lack of a big fat button to JOIN and the lack of an advanced search are probably my immediate problems).
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  Tom Goskar 5:23 pm on 3 July, 2006 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Books, manuscript, medieval, virtualbooks   

  Script Error 

  

  The Sherborne Missal has had a script error. Oh the irony…

  The Sherborne Missal is a 15th century illuminated manuscript, and the virtual version is available to browse on a large touch screen in the foyer of the British Library. It allows you to ‘turn’ the pages with your hands, as you would a real book. It’s very impressive, allowing you to zoom in on details, and see notes attached to some of the images throughout the book. Unfortunately, it had a little error while I was using it, and my camera was to hand ;-)

  You can view it online as well, via a Shockwave application, as well as many others.