Looks like MOSI is closing

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

Im a regular visitor to Manchester Museum of Science and Industry and sad to say it has gone down hill very rapidly recently. It will be a tradgic loss if this was chosen as the one to close (does anyone even go to the media museum in Cradford?). Sad times!

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

That would be tragic … MOSI is [or at least, was] a great resource.

I presume that you mean Bradford: In which case the answer is "not any more" … When it opened, it was fantastic; but last time I went, I was disgusted to find that their live 'Camera Obscura' exhibit was actually a video camera and monitor … I walked-out.

MichaelG.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Will probably be replaced with an x-factor coronation street smartphone museum in the future

Once they perfect Virtual Reality headsets you will be able to take a museum tour on your computer, the museum only existing within a cloud server

Things are moving fast now with 4G and GPS stuff.

Your smartphone knows exactly where you are and museum type info can be pumped to your phone telling you any tourist info/history about that particular building or street you are standing in

flick out another phone app, push a button and the nearest smartphone taxi to you will come round the corner and pick you up and take you to your chosen restaurant for lunch, all done via the netty and GPS servers

If they are going to shut these places down they really should record a VR tour for future use

All the major cities are becoming smartphone 4G GPS network enabled at the moment and in a few years you will be able to go anywhere you like, stare at a pile of interesting rubble and your phone will tell you what it was in your own language, like wikipedia

Tourists will flock to all sorts of places once phone based "virtual tours" become common

Edited By Ady1 on 11/10/2015 12:22:06

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

VR tour of MEX?

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

VR tour of MEX?

If it's being closed down, yes (or even if it isn't)

A bit less money on fabulous council pensions and a bit more on things that are useful to the community

25p for a VR tour of the MEX museum. The smartphone generation are spending all their pocket money on these gadgets nowadays

No doubt you've all noticed how all our youngsters seem to be staring permanently at a phone, well that costs cash and they are very happily paying through the nose for access to those things

Tourists will too because they want the best visitor experience possible

Edited By Ady1 on 11/10/2015 12:11:46

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

A strange coincidence. First article on the beebs science page today

Walk up the side of a big hill in the middle of nowhere and open up your phone app…

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Digitising Yorkshire's savannah past

Ancient bones from a North Yorkshire cave, including the remains of rhinos, bears and hyenas, are to go on display in a "virtual museum" more than a century after they were excavated.

Some of the bones, found in Victoria Cave in the dales, date back more than one hundred thousand years.

At that time, such beasts were common in northern England.

A team of archaeologists from the organisation DigVentures has set out digitise the site's unique collection.

The cave was discovered in 1837 when a man noticed his dog disappear through an opening in the hill, and reappear through another.

When they excavated, the Victorian explorers found objects that revealed the area's ancient history – from skulls of extinct rhinos and elephants, to more recent Romano-British artefacts.

Now, with the help of the local farmer and archaeology enthusiast, Tom Lord, who's been looking after that collection for forty years, the archaeologists have made 3D scans of every item, and of the cave itself.

They'll use these to place each object, digitally, in the same spot where it was unearthed.

The team says this will give visitors "a museum in their pocket", in the form of their smartphone.

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Edited By Ady1 on 11/10/2015 13:02:29

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

MEX = Model Engineering Exhibition

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Already happened.

 

Wolverhampton  did a virtual museum a few years ago.

Well worth a look.

 

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Edited By John Stevenson on 11/10/2015 13:50:49

[steveteeParticipant @stevetee]

Seems odd considering the following :

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[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

In other, more recent, News:

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