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Google Street View for Art Galleries: The Google Art Project

I’ve just spotted the Google Art Project. It allows you to explore a selection of art galleries from around the world as you would explore an area on a map via Google Street View. An interactive layer provides an indication when an artwork can be viewed in detail on a separate page, with magnification tools [...]

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Creative Spaces – some more thoughts

It’s been an interesting day so far on the Museums Computer Group email list. The debate on Creative Spaces has been fast-paced with passion, criticism and defence. I won’t reiterate exactly what has been said, as you could catch up on the threads in the list archive, but I have had some more thoughts that I [...]

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Creative Spaces – Social Media and Museums

[Update] I’ve had some more thoughts on Creative Spaces. Feel free to follow this post with my first follow-up. The National Museums Online Learning Project “Creative Spaces” is a social media project that links 9 major UK museums and galleries. Currently in beta, participating institutions include the Natural History Museum, The V&A, British Museum, Tate, National Portrait [...]

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