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Museum of the Future – Virtual Reality

Museum of the Future – Virtual Reality

by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Latest News, oral history, virtual reality

What will museum of the future look like? There are some amazing new technologies which can help to bring the museum experience to the modern user, and especially to the youth who mostly expect everything to be digital. In this series of articles I will highlight some...

Free Mini Web Pages for Museums – 2016

by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites

We are renewing our offer to museums for us to provide a Mini Web Page which is localised to your town or city, and which is then discoverable by tourists and others. This is part of a larger initiative to create a general cultural atlas of the country, similar to...

Building Great Museum Websites / 2

by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites, Museums

The first article in this series introduced the issues with museum web sites, including those issues common to all historical sites and memory institutions. In this second article I focus on some of the content required and how this content can be adapted to meet the...

Building Great Museum Websites / 1

by Roger Layton | May 9, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museums, user experience

We conducted an analysis of museum web sites almost ten years ago, with the purpose of understanding how good are local museum web sites compared to the best in the world, and we repeated this study four years ago. We have recently commenced a new such survey of South...
Bletchley Park – From Old to New

Bletchley Park – From Old to New

by Roger Layton | Feb 25, 2015 | ETHER Experience, Museum of Mathematics, Museums, user experience

I have always considered Alan Turing to be my personal hero, the one historical figure whom I can look up to and acknowledge. Alan who? you say! His life story has been the subject of a recent movie, The Imitation Game, which made it to the final few movies for the...

Virtual Tour Guide – Using Mobiles in your Museum/Site

by Roger Layton | Oct 9, 2014 | ETHER Experience, user experience

Two years ago we designed and built the Virtual Tour Guide, as a way that you can provide information to your visitors using their own mobile phones. This provides benefits to both the visitors, in terms of a more informed and modern experience, and also to the...

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