Video channel at V&A Museum

It is becoming more usual that museums open their own news pages via a video channel in their website.  A good example is the V and A Museum, London
V and A museum, video channel

Apps from Musee des Instruments (Brussels)

The Musée des Instruments de Musique (MIM) in Brussels offer an opportunity to hear music outside of the building in an installation about musical chairs, a site located just in front of the main entrance of the museum and that needs the use of application for smartphones.  The signal between the chair explains  how to activate the application and listen to "the instrument of the month". 

The personal touch in information

The post should read: Engaging your audience before twitter.

As you can see by the sign/painted label in the wall this an image from some time ago.  But it illustrates very well my reflection for the weekend: there are many ways to spread the word, engage and have the audience participating with/in your museum than using technologies.  Sure, it is true that to read the sign here, the public must already be there walking the museum.  But if museums show their "backstage" while they are re-organising and explain their work, surely audiences would feel more connected to the mission of the museum and the visits can turn into a recurrent ones, which in the end should be one of most important goals of any museum. 

It is not agains technologies, it is working in cooperation with, not forgetting the personal touch!

Technologies - Variations of a theme

Socializing without techonologies,

Learning and socializing

Ancient social networking