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Question: What is it that makes museums go this road?
After two days of this conference I have a question that you might know how to asnwer. We've been hearing a lot about web & mobile appications, useability, affective interfaces, organisational change, wiki's, weblogs & mashups, using API's and cloudcomputing, revamping your website etc etc and this has all been very interesting. Personally I was inspired by Maxwell Anderson's talk about the need for musea to be transparent and stay relevant for people's lives, Brian Kelly's introduction to using the cloud, Nina's vibrant talk about small changes and real-world metaphors and Gail's hands-on postcard experiment in audience participation. Yet, after all these sessions, I wonder what exactly makes musea pursue this road to change, use the web & other technology to open up their content, reach new audiences and enhance user experiences. If you could choose one pressing reason why you as a museum want to, or have to do this, what would this be? Would this be relevant for others too? Thank you for sharing!
I guess it's because the very sense of museums existence is to COMMUNICATE.
Museums are all about communication: exhibiting objects, transmitting knowledge, telling stories, helping learning process, organizing events, sharing views, etc, all the efforts we invest in providing new ways or enhancing the existing social ones have the final purpose to better communicate, understanding communication in its whole meaning, that is, in the two-ways or better still, in multiple-ways interaction.
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