On Exhibitions and Iterations
Since reopening in December 2014, we’ve found that the coming opening of an exhibition is a big driver of iteration. The work involved in preparing an exhibition involves the whole museum and is one of...
View ArticleA Very Happy & Open Birthday for the Pen
Today marks the first birthday of our beloved Pen. It’s been an amazing year, filled will many iterations, updates, and above all, visits! Today is a celebration of the Pen, but also of all of our...
View ArticleMuseums and the Web Conference Recap: Administrative Tools at Cooper Hewitt
The Labs team had a great time at Museums and the Web this year. We published two papers for the conference and presented them both to the audience of cultural heritage thinkers, makers, planners and...
View ArticleObject Phone: The continued evolution of a little chatbot
Object Phone is a project that started small, took less than a day to code, and consisted of about a page of code. Initially it was just an experiment–a way for me to explore a new interface to our...
View ArticleThe Visit Statistics Page
Hi Labs blog readers! My name is Belle and I’m this summer’s Peter A. Krueger intern in the Digital and Emerging Media Department. At the end of my time here I’ll be starting my senior year at...
View ArticleTraveling our technology to the U.K.
Visitors to the London Design Biennale use our “clone” of the Wallpaper Immersion Room. Recently, we launched a major initiative at the inaugural London Design Biennale at Somerset House. The...
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