I was intentionally going off on a historical tangent, rather than trying to answer Richard. The "first museum website" thing interests me because I lived through that moment, which, in the trivia-filled history of cyberspace, was pretty significant for us. I'll move the discussion to the blog.
Amalyah -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Holly Witchey Sent: Tue 12/19/2006 3:54 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv; mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming? Pardon me if I put in my two cents here, I think this discussion encourages an already too prevalent culture of "firsts" in the museum world. The great thing about firsts (and administration and p.r. love them) is we generally learn a whole lot about how not to do things and what we would do better the next time. I suspect what Richard is probably looking for is that group of bleeding-edgers and what was driving or motivating them to do what they did. Lenore Sarasen's email really put things in perspective for me--just because folks didn't have access to the same technologies we do, doesn't mean they were doing the job. After all those buttons which allowed us to play video or audio in natural history museums got the job done. Holly Witchey Director, New Media Initiatives The Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Phone: 216-707-2653 Fax: 216-721-4176 Email: hwitchey at clevelandart.org www.clevelandart.org www.museumattic.org (blog) www.musematic.net -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of amalyah keshet Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:18 AM To: mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming? Interesting. I distinctly remember the Dallas Museum of Art being the first museum I found on the Web. Amalyah At 14:25 19/12/2006, you wrote: >I would vote for Dallas Museum of Art - whose former IT director now >works for Microsoft in Dallas > >He sure turned me onto the web, and when I started www.mariner.org >for The Mariners' Museum, we were part of that first wave of >websites for museums - thanks to him (I forget his name!) > >Mark > >----- Original Message ----- From: "amalyah keshet" <akeshet at netvision.net.il> >To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" <mcn-l at mcn.edu> >Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:33 AM >Subject: Re: [MCN-L] History of Museum Gaming? > > >>So, which WAS the first museum to have a website? > Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
