Fresh & New(er)

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Powerhouse Object of the Week – a new behind the scenes blog

April 2nd, 2009 2 Comments

Another exciting thing we are launching today is our Object of the Week blog. It nicely complements our Photo of the Day which recently celebrated 500 posts! We kick off Object of the Week with a profile of the project lead, curator Erika Dicker. Erika has chosen a favourite object from the collection – a [...]

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What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog? The end of Dragon & the Pearl

May 13th, 2007 Comments Off

‘What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog?’ has been a question that has been bouncing around for a few weeks. Our Great Wall of China exhibition closed a few months ago and with it our Dragon & The Pearl blog. The dragon blog was always conceived of as an experiment [...]

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Free Radicals interviews World Without Oil

May 4th, 2007 Comments Off

Over on one of our other Powerhouse Museum blogs, Free Radicals interviews the makers of the interactive storytelling game World Without Oil. Although short, the interview contains this – FR: How do you suspect that the game nature of WWO will effect its ability to speak to the population at large? Ken: Not very much. [...]

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M&W07 – Day four: Cell phones and bookmarking

April 15th, 2007 Comments Off

Again the Walker Art have delivered some great notes to three excellent final day presentations evaluating the use of cell phone tours in galleries, and the actual use of bookmarking technologies. Read the papers from Kate Haley Goldman or understanding the inhibitors to cell phone tour use in galleries, and Nancy Proctor on the differences [...]

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