Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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patrimoni.gencat


Conference: 
MW2010
Institution: 
D.G. Patrimoni Cultural (Cultural Heritage Administration)
Designer: 
in-house
Why: 

www.patrimoni.gencat.cat shows the heritage of Catalonia, mainly museum related with new web tools like video podcasting, Google Earth, 3D models of ancient buildings online, giga-resolution photographs, games, blogs, etc.

In 2009 has developed a wide 2.0 activity to engage participation:

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/ patrimoni.gencat

Patrimoni.gencat has almost 1500 friends and 2200 fans on Facebook. It shows some content from the main website (specially multimedia) and promotes engagement of the user community through competitions, questions or events.

Twitter

http://twitter.com/ patrimonigencat

Museum and heritage related news, and interaction with professionals and museum and heritage lovers.

 

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/ user/patrimonigencat

In-house videos from patrimoni.tv and playlists with the best videos from catalan museums and the users community.

 

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrimonigencat

Photos from the main website and from the users. The last contest has selected the best museum and heritage photos from amateurs and included them in the recently published official guide of catalan heritage.

Pat.club

http://www.patrimoni.gencat.cat/patclub

More than a thousand members: organizations, partners, professionals, amateurs, museum lovers... connected by a newsletter and the 2.0 websites: Facebook, YouTube, Flckr...

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Year: 
2010