How should museums integrate new technology in their strategy?
As potential providers of new technology for museums, we are aware of the gap between existing museum practices and progressive technology. Most of the times, the two just don't meet naturally. It is therefore of great importance, that intermediate bodies, such as the eCult Observatory, bring together cultural [...]
Going to the trenches with meSch technology
There’s no such thing as testing technology for real, in place, with users. The amount of feedback that can be gained out of the lab on the technical issues, emotional impact, content adequacy, and interaction effectiveness is invaluable.
Connecting opposites: meSch technology in an exhibition
From April to November 2015 in the Museon there will be an exhibition in which meSch technology will be fully integrated. The title of the exhibition: The Hague and the Atlantikwall. War in the city of peace. It will provide an excellent setting for the visitor studies that [...]
The meSch approach to evaluation
Assessing the impact of the meSch approach is a task of critical importance within the meSch project. Evaluation is all about exploring the short and long term impact, potential and viability of meSch and it’s products for all implicated stakeholders: museums, Cultural Heritage professionals, museum visitors, designers, tech [...]
Workshop with the Loupe in Sofia
The National Museum of History in Sofia, Bulgaria is running experiments with the meSch Loupe as result of the eCultValue open call for Living Labs.
meSch at the EUROMED 2014
On the week of November 3rd to November 8th, the EUROMED 2014, Digital Heritage conference took place in Limassol, Cyprus. This was the 5th edition of this International Conference that is dedicated to Digital Heritage.
Best project paper award for meSch
meSch won a best paper award at the Euromed Digital Heritage Conference 2014, where 438 papers were submitted in total and 158 papers were accepted.
meSch technology chosen by Living Labs
In July 2014 the eCultValue project launched an Open Call to select Living Labs able to run concept validation experiments at European museums based on technologies developed within FP7 projects for Cultural Heritage. We are very glad to announce that one of the awareded proposals will be using [...]
The Loupe travels to Bulgaria
Chosen for validation through the eCultValue project, meSch technology has been selected by the National Museum of History in Sofia to experiment with. This means our Loupe will travel to Sofia for extensive testing!
meSch newsletter published
The first edition of the meSch newsletter in September 2014.
Material Encounters with digital Cultural Heritage