Digital Tools for Museum Professionals: Limerick, Ireland, 19-20 January 2017

Two days workshop organised by the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, as part of the EU meSch project. Are you a museum professional interested in emerging technologies […]

meSch and Friends – Sheffield 26th & 27th November

Are you a museum professional who is curious about emerging digital technologies? Are you ready to have a go at designing and developing interactive exhibitions / installations?

Shaping personalized museum experiences

Engaging visitors with the right information at the right time and with the most effective type of interaction during their museum experience is one of the crucial issues curators are keen to invest effort in to make visits enjoyable, memorable, and instructive for their varied audience.

Beyond digital Storytelling: meSch tools for education

Dick van Dijk shares his views on the meSch workshop at Online Educa Berlin, that was held at the beginning of December 2015. Exploring the meSch technology as a potential educational tool.

Personalisation after the visit: Keeping a personal connection with the exhibition

How to keep a connection with visitors that have just experienced your museum exhibition? Will they recall what they have seen, heard, experienced for long? Will they ever get in touch with the online resources that the museum offers or will they suggest others to come and visit?

Voices from the past in Fort Pozzacchio

When the digital content creates a synergy with the physical space On October 20th, 2015, an exhibition with fully integrated meSch technology opened to the public at the Museo della Guerra in Rovereto, Italy. The installation is based in the section of the museum dedicated to the artillery [...]

Looking for volunteers in Italy!

On October 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 meSch researchers from Sheffield Hallam University will be at the Museo della Guerra in Rovereto to conduct a visitor survey. We are looking for people who would like to participate in the survey and get free entrance to the Museum [...]

Technologies and Challenges for Cultural Heritage Communities – A Recap

What challenges are different communities facing when caring for, approaching and communicating heritage holdings? And how do they use technology to facilitate and aid their activities? These were the main questions that an international group of researchers and cultural heritage professionals explored during a an international workshop in June in [...]

Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage Communities: Technologies and Challenges

meSch will host a workshop at the Communities & Technologies Conference 2015 to discuss examples of community involvement in cultural heritage and of related technology design and use. This workshop lets us explore issues that are at the core of the meSch process and that are strengthening further as [...]

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