tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post3610792206115231167..comments2024-03-27T05:04:39.476-07:00Comments on Museum 2.0: Museum Trails: I like... personalizing the museum experienceNina Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-61294855167470618592007-07-25T12:46:00.000-07:002007-07-25T12:46:00.000-07:00This topic appeared while I was commenting on a di...This topic appeared while I was commenting on a different one. What a fun surprise!<BR/><BR/>I find this trail thing rather intriquing and share your curiosity about how it will affect the museums.<BR/><BR/>I would like it to be more literal, though. I expected to see a map, showing the locations of each museum on the trail, with a trail from one to the next. Not knowing much about Northern England, I have no idea if the lists appear in any kind of geographical order or not. I would hope so. They already have links to Google maps on the site, so it would be easy enough for a web developer to create a link that would plot ALL of the museums on a given trail onto the same Google map, with directions from one to the other. Visitors could then remove museums from the map if they did not want to go to a particular one. (Google maps already have this feature.)<BR/><BR/>As a user, my inclination would be to create an actual narrative, where I would help create an experience for my trail-followers. It would be kind of a scavenger hunt. Let's say ten museums each had at least one artifact created by Inventor X. I could create a trail leading people to each of the museums AND each of the artifacts, helping to create a new experience about Inventor X, as interpreted by ten different museums. How cool would that be? My head is almost exploding with the possibilities.<BR/><BR/>This is actually a rather low-tech tool, which is nice because so many people could use it. Similar experiences could be created with GPS devices (see <A HREF="http://www.waymarking.com" REL="nofollow">waymarking.com</A>). <BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>Seth!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com