In the Museum of Pure Form, we explore a novel way of presenting art to visitors of a museum, allowing them to virtually touch artefacts in a virtual museum. In order to realise this the statues are first digitised with a scanner so that they can be placed in a virtual museum. The virtual museum is then displayed on a 3D stereo screen. The visitor uses a purpose-built two-contact-point haptic d...

We describe the prototype of an interactive, web-based, museum artifact search and information service. Mo Músaem F́ıorúil clusters and indexes images of museum artifacts taken by visitors to the museum where the images are captured using a passive capture device such as Microsoft’s SenseCam [1]. The system also matches clustered artifacts to images of the same artifact from the museums official...

The use of the term "virtual" is commonly associated with the idea of an extension of reality. Similarly, the expression "virtual museum" is usually adopted to mean a process of duplication of a physical museum and its objects that is enabled by information technologies. Therefore, "virtual museum" has become a useful synonym for multimedia products and websites capable of providing new and fre...

museum sees its mission as extending beyond the Zambezi to all of Africa: “Museum Africa is not about revisionist African history written by biased Afrocentric writers . . . rather, it is a journey back to the glory years of the African continent’s past.” Byala does an admirable job of setting this history in terms of contemporary museological theory. Following Michel Foucault and Jacques Derri...

School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, South Africa Florisbad Quaternary Research, National Museum, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Centre for Environmental Management, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlif...

As museum exhibition become technically complex and design teams more specialised and fragmented, the need to plan and co-ordinate the design process with greater quality is becoming important. According to previous research of museum studies, traditional object-based displays are being replaced by multi-disciplinary technology -based exhibits in science museums, therefore, a specifically multi...

Corporate sponsorship of a museum needs to be understood as a legitimised marketing method to create higher value for the audience. Effective strategic sponsorship has proved that it can help museum organisations create a variety of programmes for the public and increase competitiveness at the same time. This dissertation studies the recent managerial transformation process of the museum sector...

One decade has passed since the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts initiated the foundation of the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, providing it with the location of 300m in Gundulićeva Street 24 in Zagreb. The foundation of the Museum was the Collection of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy which was in safekeeping of the Division for the History of Medical Sciences of the Croati...

The purposes of this research were to develop online museum for packaging using Virtual Reality. This museum was to be considered as a learning instruction resource outside class to solve the issue of insufficient time in class. The instructors encouraged learners to build up the knowledge by themselves via active learning activities. The sampling group for this study consisted of 40 second yea...

This paper discusses the development of a virtual reality museum. An effort was made so that the virtual museum represents the Byzantine, medieval museum in Rhodes as closely as possible. Simple and low cost tools were used to allow rapid development of relatively good quality applications. This was attempted to validate our belief that the construction of VR applications is within the abilitie...