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Minna Takala: New Archetype for Museums. “The most obvious new aspect of the Storehouse is that it is totally transparent, exposing the collection of 250,000 objects to public viewing. The building is literally a warehouse (like Amazon) where you can walk inside the corridors like in an IKEA store to see the objects placed on shelves.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/minna-takala-new-archetype-for-museums/
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Chicago Sun-Times: Griffin MSI lets online visitors experience 1893 World’s Fair — and more . “The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum’s 35,000-item collection. Images that are being uploaded encompass far more than pieces from the 1893 World’s Fair.”
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The Conversation: Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy. “AI tools can do amazing things, such as make 3D models of digitized versions of the items in museum collections, but only if there’s enough well-organized data about that item available. To see how AI can help museum collections, my team […]
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Yale News: Breaking digital siloes to share cultural heritage collections. “In 2023, Yale launched LUX: Yale Collections Discovery, a groundbreaking research platform that allows people to search across the university’s vast museum, library, and archival collections from their laptops. Now the data framework behind LUX has been made available to any cultural heritage institution worldwide […]
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University of Glasgow: Largest survey of its kind charts immersive digital future for museums worldwide. “Conducted as part of the Museums in the Metaverse (MiM) £5.6 million project, based at the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre, this study is the largest of its kind, gathering insights from over 2000 participants worldwide. The research provides crucial evidence for how […]