MIST: Museum Interfaces, Spaces, Technologies

博物馆是我们文化遗产的宝库。它们在保护我们的遗产和提供获取遗产方面的作用往往是相互矛盾的。MIST网络将通过讨论博物馆是什么样的地方，它们可能是什么，以及关于空间和技术的新思维如何改变它们可以提供的访问方式来探索这两个角色。我们将定义并开始开发新技术和嵌入技术的新方法，使博物馆参观(包括通过网站进行的真实参观和虚拟参观)更有意义和令人兴奋。这些技术很可能包括使短暂的数字表现变得有形的物理接口；使用网络和从博物馆获得的物品将参观博物馆嵌入参观者的生活中，为他或她提供参观前信息和参观后记忆辅助材料以及进一步发展的路线；以及将博物馆空间与人和外部空间连接的方式。

Museums are the repositories of our cultural heritage. They have the often contradictory roles of protecting our heritage and providing access to it. The MIST network will explore these two roles by discussing what kind of places museums are, what they could be and how new thinking on space and technology could transform the kind of access they can provide. We will the define and begin the development of new technologies and new ways of embedding technologies that will make museum visits (both real visits and virtual visits via the website) more meaningful and exciting. These technologies may well include physical interfaces that make ephemeral digital representations tangible; ways of using the web and objects taken from the museums to embed a museum visit within the life of a visitor, providing him or her with pre-visit information and post-visit memory aids and routes to further development; and ways of connecting the museum space with people and spaces outside.