Tag Archives: museums

Coming Soon to a Movie Theatre Near You?

The distribution company that brought the 'Metropolitan Opera's the Met: Live in HD' to movie theaters is now branching out to feature museum exhibits on the big screen.

“iPad Summer”: Tablets in Canada’s Museums

It was a hot year for tablet adoption in Canada, and museums in Canada weren’t just getting their feet wet with this new hardware – they dove in headfirst. Fuelling this trend is the fact that Canadians are accessing the Internet in different ways. A report by Adobe predicted that by 2013, tablets will generate more traffic on the Web than smartphones. But Canadian museums have also been exploring creative solutions to fulfil other areas of their mandate beyond interpretation – whether educational programming, research, collections management, or Web outreach. Here are a few tablet-based projects that caught our attention this summer season.

Summary: CHIN’s Mobile Bootcamp

On April 24, 2012, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) held the Mobile Bootcamp as part of the Canadian Museums Association’s (CMA) Annual Conference.

Mobile in Museums

The dramatic rise in mobile and handheld technology use in day-to-day life is affecting the way museums deliver their programs and services.