As part of the COMPASS project here at the British Museum, we are involving schools and other specific audience groups in the production of guided tours to be displayed online and in the new Reading Room. The first one of these will go live within the next month and is called 'The Year of the Dragon'. Children from a local Chinese school have produced their own Compass entries, artwork and stories about dragons in the museum from across a range of cultures.
I will alert the list when the tour goes live and would be interested to hear everyone's comments. I can be emailed for further details on [log in to unmask]
Compass is at www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass.
Carolyn Howitt
COMPASS Education Officer
British Museum
020 7323 8778
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass
>>> Roland Jackson <[log in to unmask]> 08/16 10:34 AM >>>
I'd welcome suggestions of examples of museums that have developed IT-based
projects or systems to encourage the public (specialist or non-specialist)
to contribute their knowledge, experience, perspectives or views in
relation to the museum's collections. These could include initiatives
separate from collections databases (e.g. Going Graphic at the V&A),
examples of museums that have given people access to collections
information to enable checking of information, and examples (if there are
any!) of museums that have solicited and integrated public knowledge into
collections information databases themselves. Public 'curation' of online
exhibitions would be relevant too.
On a completely different topic...while I'm writing I'd like to take the
opportunity as your list-owner and servant to re-iterate a few points:
1. If you are going away on holiday do consider suspending mail, and if you
are setting an auto-respond at any time them please do suspend mail as well.
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attachments to the list. Please don't do this. If you think the file is
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3. I do ocasionally still have to remove people when their e-mail system
sends me error messages at least 2 separate days in a row. If your supply
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names. You can also use this site to check old messages and find out how to
suspend mail, leave etc.
Roland
Dr Roland Jackson, Head of Education and Programmes
Science Museum, London SW7 2DD
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