Hekinan Seaside Aquarium/Hekinan Maritime Science Museum

Hanse 1380 - A Learning Game for the German Maritime Museum

In an one year lasting project at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven a digital learning game for the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven was developed. It is targeted to school pupils in the age between 10 and 14 and should explain the importance of the cog for trading activities between Hanse cities in the 14th century. More detailed learning objectives were defined through a ...

Designing an Itinerant Science Museum

In this paper, we present the main activities of the development process of an itinerant science museum. We have developed applications for three target platforms: portable computers, mobile devices and web accessible applications. The selection of these platforms enable the museum to be highly transportable (even in a set of backpacks). The applications are interactivity rich because they can ...

Museum laboratories: where art meets science.

The Science Museum Wellcome Wing, London

London's Science Museum has this summer launched the most ambitious project in its 140-year history with a new £50 million extension featuring a key exhibition on life science. With funds from the country's national lottery and the medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust, the museum has built a new Wellcome wing to add to its unique 250-year-old collection of technology. The new wing aims ...

Museum Informatics and Collaborative Technologies: The Emerging Socio-Technological Dimension of Information Science in Museum Environments

The museum offers a starting point from which to examine the fundamental nature of collaborative work and interdisciplinary scholarship. This article examines the socio-technological impact of introducing advanced information technology into the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It addresses the implementation of such methodologies as computer...