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151 museums in second wave of Google Art Project

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.

Visitor experience hierarchy

Did the visitor:

1. attend? (physically)
2. participate? (mentally)
3. make sense of the place? (spiritually)
4. connect with the place? (holistically)

ruineshumaines:

Natural History Museum, London.

Geological Museum

(via gnatchan)

a checklist of museum technology infrastructure considerations (by CHIN)

basic categories include:

1. collections management
2. data management
3. user interface
4. querying
5. reports
6. technical requirements (e.g. training)
7. systems administration (e.g. security)

Video game arcades into museums

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

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.