Assyrian Sculpture at the British Museum

The Memory Machine : sound and memory at the British Museum

Taking the British Golf Museum Home

Over the last two and half years, I have been in the unique position helping to create CD-I discs while at the same time, I was the first end-user of CD-I in the United Kingdom. From the onset, it was always our intention to make a consumer disc as well as the museum discs, but it was a secondary consideration. Our first objective was to finish and open the British Golf Museum and then take thi...

The British Museum of Natural History.

Well, someone can decide by themselves what they want to do and need to do but sometimes, that kind of person will need some the british museum of natural history references. People with open minded will always try to seek for the new things and information from many sources. On the contrary, people with closed mind will always think that they can do it by their principals. So, what kind of per...

CD-I Applications at the British Golf Museum and the United States Golf Association Museum and Library

The implications of a single world wide standard are profound. It means that any disc made anywhere in the world will play on anybody's CD-I player. If one develops an interactive display for a museum on CD-I, if carefully thought out, it can have a very active life outside the confines of a museum. It can either be sold commercially or be sent as part of a display to any other museum or exhibi...

The processes of museum text creation at The Spurlock Museum

While often one goes to a museum in order to see visual artifacts, be they paintings, a shovel from the fifth century, or the inside of a space engine, it is important to remember that "meaning is constructed and interpreted in relation to text-based resources: meanings do not arise from thin-air; they are textual products" (Ravelli, 150). In museums, these "resources" include, but are not limi...