Hi! In this podcast episode, my friend Abril Cisneros and I (Anouk) will give you our unsolicited opinion on museums (or other art institutions’) successful and ‘failed’ online presences. Our first topic is: 360-degree Virtual Museum Tours! Who hasn’t heard of them? Do you enjoy crawling around the web in a digital simulation of a museum’s environment? Well, we don’t really, and here’s why.
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Hi! I really enjoyed your podcast. I agree with your review of the Guggenheim museum VT and I feel that the same could be said for most virtual tours available today. I believe that in its current state of development, museum VTs are more useful for specific research rather than “experiences” as their quality is not high enough yet to make it even slightly comparable with the real-life version. I do however think that with the speed at which people are working to develop virtual tours and VR it will probably reach high results in a few years.
Thank you for your comment! I totally agree that VTs offer great research opportunities on museum display and architecture. Hopefully, in the future, it will become easier to produce VTs so we’ll be able to re-experience a greater number of exhibitions than the few that are currently documented!
This podcast has been on my mind since it was featured in class. I find the archival aspect very interesting and see the web as an UI. Learning now in other courses that archives can contribute to the dimension of an artwork makes it even more interesting. As mentioned in class I found how digitalbenin.org compiled their research (framework & method), its not a 360 degree but I think it’s closer to what we as curators need opposed to the Google version.
I really like how you breakdown the users and their needs, and than sharing your opinion on the different stakeholders, well done!