What will museums become in the future?
To explore this question the Center for the Future of Museums sponsored a story competition. Creators had to imagine what the future of education could look like, with museums playing a leading role: “Tell us a story…about a future of education in which museums play a starring role.”
(Full disclosure: I helped judge the contest)
The resulting narratives imagined diverse futures, including multiple generations using virtual reality, autonomous historical characters, a megadatabase, augmented reality gallery installation tests, a new form of robotic displays, One peered into an inbox 25 years from now. Click here to see the winners, along with all of the other creative submissions. That’s a lot of imagination and innovation at work – go explore!
Reblogged this on Vanessa's Blogueria.
Reminded me of this, https://gbl55.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/essence-of-mooc-and-the-museum-analogy/
What a fascinating analogy, Vanessa. That makes all kinds of sense.
It also draws on the classic symbolism of describing online objects as spaces.