Comments for NZMuseums

Comment on iPad based visitor experience at Puke Ariki by Carrie Ross

Carrie Ross — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:30:53 +0000

Hello,

We are looking at purchasing ipads for our visitors to enhance our interpretation in the museum. How do you dirtibute your ipads to visitors and what percentage are broken and how do you limit the risk of theft? Looking forward to hearing from you.

Carrie Ross
carrie.ross2@gov.sk.ca

Comment on Gavin’s Diary Winter 2011 by Peti Waaka

Peti Waaka — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:49:02 +0000

Kia ora Gavin and the team and NSTP,

Just a quick note to say that I recently met up with an old school friend of mine, Ema Moore, daughter of Rachel Selby who could not stop ravving about the workshop held at Parewahawaha. She was very impressed about the time you and aunty Rangi gave to her and the whanau present. She is now considering taking up conservation as a line of work!

Keep up the great mahi

Arohanui,
Peti x

Comment on Wake-up Call For Canterbury Museum by Stephanie Hamilton

Stephanie Hamilton — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:56:31 +0000

Hello Adrienne

A fantastically uplofting piece. I was wondering whether you would be prepared to maybe turn this or similar into a short article for Museums Australia Magazine? After coming through the floods (we featured the floods 2 issues ago as a pictoral showcase) so many of our community museums, and national institutions are having similar cleaning up tasks. It would be fantastic for another perspective. Please email me if you would be interested.

Regards
Steph Hamilton
Museums Australia National Office
stephanie.hamilton@museumsaustralia.org.au

Comment on Judith’s Diary by Cathy Onellion

Cathy Onellion — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:15:23 +0000

This is an excellent post, Judith. Thanks for sharing your insights and thoughts on alternatives to holding big collections and instead leaning more on the side of interpretation of local history. This gives me much to think about with our own little museum in Otautau.

Cathy

Comment on Woodsdale by Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:07:16 +0000

just stumbled across this site and loved the bit about Woodsdale from Tassie, as I have visited there while on holiday looking at farms to buy.
I remember calling in to the little museum and actually spoke with Sue the author of this article. How Cool. Good on you Sue for reaching us here in the kiwi land.

Comment on Virtual Eve and the Future of Museums by Juliet Cooke

Juliet Cooke — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:04:21 +0000

Hi Eric
In my humble opinion museums need to keep sight of what makes them unique as a medium of communication,i.e.:
-real authentic & provenanced objects
-a real live multidimensional, multisensory walk-through experience
-a real live social experience based around content
Any new media needs to enhance these attributes, rather than overtake them.

It doesn\’t make sense to spend a disproportionate amount of an exhibition budget trying to compete with virtual reality by using virtual reality. Why would we come to a museum for a virtual reality experience when we can experience it from the comfort of our home computer?

This doesn\’t mean that we can afford to ignore Web 2.0, for this will surely lose our audience to the lure of social media and interactivity. Instead we can take the capabilities of Web 2.0; personalized contribution, social interaction, use-centered design, user-generated content, information sharing, and apply these to our exhibitions at a fraction of the costs.

At the moment we present exhibitions as a fait accompli in which the museum experts (curators, designers etc.) present a beautifully finished argument to a look-but-don\’t-participate audience. Why not see the opening of an exhibition as the start of a conversation between the museum experts and the audience? Why not make an exhibition that grows and changes as a result of this conversation? Why not make the whole multidimensional experience change, rather than just tacking on a section for visitor comment at the end? Perhaps this would engage a Web 2.0 audience without losing sight of the core role of museums, or blowing the budget.

Juliet Cooke
Intouch Design

Comment on Museum and gallery succession planning by Chanda Pinsent

Chanda Pinsent — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:27:37 +0000

Hi friend, Thinking of you and wondering if you and yours are safe if you are still in Christchurch. Take care of each other. Chanda
chananddylan@actrix.co.nz

Comment on Taupo Museum and Art Gallery by jenny benton

jenny benton — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:48:24 +0000

Good morning
We have just discovered that you have/had? an exibition on about a vintage caravan. As keen caravanners ourselves we would love to see it. Can you please advise how long this exhibition will be shown? We live in Wellington so will have to plan a caravan trip up your way if the exhibition is still running.

many thanks

Jenny Benton

Comment on The Dress Circle by Vicki Worker

Vicki Worker — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:05:35 +0000

In the course of your research, did you find out what happened to Bobby Angus?? Apparently she remarried and moved to USA. She is a relation of mine and i\’m trying to track her and her children down,
Thanks
Vicki

Comment on Supporting all volunteers caring for collections in Tasmania by Mary Ramsay

Mary Ramsay — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:07:57 +0000

Sue has been to our historical society twice now as we have a very old library collection as well as the usual local history collection. We have found her a great inspiration and she has revitalised our group.
Bothwell Historical Society