What: Omaha Beach reconstructs the early part of D-Day on Easy Red and Fox Green beaches (positioned just north and east of today’s Normandy American Cementary and Memorial).
Where: University of Oslo, Norway
Producers: SitsimLab–project, Professor Gunnar Liestøl at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo
What: Felice Grodin: Invasive Species, the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s first-ever AR exhibit, which explores the interconnectedness of physical landscapes and the mind
Where: Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Links: http://pamm.org/ar
Producers: Cuseum
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Where: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachussets, USA
What: “Hacking the Heist” AR experience, allowing visitors to see paintings that were stolen. “When a camera on a smartphone or tablet that’s loaded with the company’s app is aimed at the spaces where the paintings were, the images appear on the screen, as if they were actually on the wall.”
Produced by: Cuseum
Link to the project: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/21/this-boston-company-uses-virtual-reality-view-artwork-stolen-from-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum/AxL3lRgoodDto1C0s6qP2J/story.html
Name: Heather Shelton @museumsago (Twitter)
Organization: MuseWeb Foundation
Be Here: Main Street is a multifacted crowdsourcing project that essentially involves gathering and publishing stories about small towns, local people, local life and experiences.
The goal of the project, which is being run in connection with the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program, is to change the overall narrative about small-town America by letting people learn about what life is like there.
We’re just a small group, so to make the project work, we’ve trained people in towns (mainly in Minnesota at this stage) to collect stories in their communities.
They can use a free and easy app called Be Here Stories to do so. Once recorded the stories are mapped and people can hear them on location.
Challenges: Getting people to submit stories, working with free tools and platforms, working remotely with communities, dealing with privacy issues, audience apprehensions about using technology.