newsobserver.com, September 2005

PDAs as museum docents

A handful of museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Tate Modern in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., are experimenting with multimedia visitor guides using PDAs, or personal digital assistants, that can feature video clips and 'virtual tours' of galleries.

'You might watch an animation of how Cubism works, starting from scratch building up a Cubist painting,' said Jane Burton, curator of interpretation for the Tate in London.

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Tate Modern's Burton said of that museum's PDA-based guides: 'We are obviously not trying to create mini-television programs that people are watching as they go through the galleries. I think we've been quite successful so far in building content that takes you back to the work in front of you.'

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By DIANE HAITHMAN, Los Angeles Times

Published: Aug 14, 2005

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