MW2009 highlights - Day 2

Plenary session at Museums and the Web annual conference. Maxwell Anderson is a 'yes we can' sort of director who has guided the Indianapolis Museum of Art into exciting online territory. He delivered a paper describing his philosophy about the potential of the web to excite and engage visitors, to whet their appetites, educate and offer them an opportunity to go behind-the-scenes of a museum.

I have lots of ideas to take back to Melbourne about bringing artworks alive online. Not to replace a real-life experience (you can't substitute standing infront of an artwork) but enriching that experience by presenting supplementary information, helping visitors to interact on in a different way to find out more, and present related information (about artists, locations, genres, subjects, eras etc).

April 15, 2009 | Posted in Webby stuff