The Brooklyn Museum has done an excellent job of utilizing Web 2.0 in several different ways, including free podcasts for their visitors. A podcast is a series of audio files distributed over the internet by syndicated download to portable media players and personal computers. Podcasts can be subscribed to or downloaded automatically when new content is added. The San Jose Museum of Art is one of the first museums in the world to use Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch to deliver interactive audio and video guides. Visitors are invited to use their own devices or borrow one free of charge from the museum for the duration of their visit. These devices serve a similar function as the GettyGuide kiosks but are wireless, portable, and more personal. Visitors can use the devices as they explore exhibits and augment their experience with commentary from artists as well as interviews with curators, gallery owners, and art insiders. Below is a video demonstration of the iPhone Tour:
Click here to preview the tour from your computer. Or, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch point your browser to http://www.sjma.mobi/
A 2005 New York Times article describes how a group of college students “hack the gallery experience” by making their own podcasts to accompany exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art which can be downloaded from their website. The podcasts are subversive and sometimes irreverent, which official museum tours are very unlikely to be. Such podcasts can be a means of virtually sharing the physical museum experience with other visitors as well as allowing visitors to see the exhibit from perspectives apart from what the museum offers.
New Wave Museums is a blog created by Selena Shissler to accompany a research paper written for the online course Introduction to Museum Studies. This class was taught by Michael Warner and offered at the South Puget Sound Community College, Sep 9 - Dec 3, 2008.
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