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Lessons in digital experience can come from the most unexpected places. When visiting MOTAT with young children, there are two things that are guaranteed to have the little ones happy and occupied. The first is a ride on the tram. The second is a play on the phones.

An update on NEO Collections by Marleen Grasse (Project Coordinator) and Abhay Adhikari (Digital Partner) who’ve been working closely with three museums to design and run experiments over the past year. How it started… Marleen: Last year, our project leads Antje Schmidt, Karin Glasemann and Etta Grotrian shared their inspirations and experiences that…

It has been just over a decade since the first public APIs appeared in the museum community. Usually released by institutions to encourage software developers and creative technologists to ‘play’ with the museum’s collection data, APIs have much more become commonplace in recent times — especially as APIs are now…

Note: this text was automatically translated by GEED Translation Engine from the english version published on MuseumNext website Note: ce texte a été traduit automatiquement par le moteur GEED Translation à partir de la version en anglais publiée sur le site de MuseumNext https://www.museumnext.com/article/livdeo-building-more-comprehensive-and-accessible-digital-platforms/ Les collections des musées doivent être…

It’s a little different month to month… — Hi there! I’m Pip, and as I’m writing this, the sun is setting on my last day as a UX Designer at ACMI (I’m off for a new adventure). It’s been an absolute journey and I’ve shed quite a few tears over leaving. As my time has come to an…

Explore the V&A’s collection via a nerdy watch — I have always loved nerdy watches. So much so in fact that I wore a Casio calculator watch from the age of ten until well into my forties. Then it was time for a Pebble, which I enjoyed a lot, but then came a gap: I’ve never really fancied the…

Recently Ben Cerveny from the Foundation for Public Code invited me to be part of a panel at the Media Architecture Biennale alongside Gabriella Gómez-Mont, Dan Hill, and Ger Baron to poke at the concept of ‘Public Digital Cultural Infrastructure’. If you’re curious about what that concept might mean then…

A UX approach to help visitors get more from their museum experience. — I’m Pip, the UX Designer in the Experience, Product and Digital team at ACMI. We’re almost four months in from the museum’s reopening in February. …

Premise My name is Francesco and I’m the Cloud Services and Software Development Manager at ACMI. This is the story of why and how a small group of developers designed and built the infrastructure for hosting a brand new range of applications, which are the engines behind our museum and…