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As reported earlier by the Agence France-Presse news agency, the most popular museum in the world is teaming up with Nintendo to bring 3DS handheld gaming devices to patrons of the Louvre. Nintendo is supplying the museum with 5,000 3DS devices in order to replace traditional audio-guides by March 2012. While the Paris museum has about 8.5 million annual visitors come through the doors, only four percent utilize the current audio hardware… Read More

Imagine the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Gallery, the Tate, the Wallace Collection, Royal Armories, Sir John Soane's Museum and Imperial War Museum all in one place. Now imagine no more, since the National Museums Online Learning Project will launch online this week, a collective site involving all those institutions. It means one search can cover the collections of… Read More

Britain’s National Museum of Computing received a boost yesterday when tech companies IBM and PGP jointly gave $100,000 to help restore and curate exhibits. However, the museum is looking for a total of $14 million to secure its future. Bletchley Park, located not far from London, was the home of Colossus, believed to be the first computer, and used during World War II, and where the famous Enigma code was broken. Of the $14 million… Read More

As anyone who’s ever visited it can tell you, the British Museum is one of the world’s great treasures, with literally millions of itemsspanning over two million years of history.   The very nature of the space means only a part of it can be on physical display at any one time. But as the museum relaunches its website,it’s going to make its entire collection available online, according to Vnunet.   To date images of… Read More

It wasn't the first video game console, but the Atari 2600 was the first system to bring video games into the home, and though its titles were limited to a paltry 2 to 4 K (that's kilobytes: it takes 1,024 of them to make a megabyte, and a 1,024 of them to make a gigabyte!), the console's influence on the industry is long and undeniable. Now, thirty years after its introduction, the Atari 2600 console has been inducted into… Read More

Google and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today announced an online mapping initiative which is designed to highlight growing troubles in the Darfur region of Sudan via Google Earth. This initiative, dubbed Crisis in Darfur, is the first project in "the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative that will over time include information on potential genocides." The Holocaust Museum, through Google Earth, is… Read More

From your living room to a museum. That's where TiVo is today as the digital video pioneer announced they were being added to a new year-long exhibit at the United States Patent and Trademark Office Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. The new exhibit, called "The Invention Machine: A Day in My Life", features everyday inventions that somehow impact people's lives. TiVo's contributions, the digital video recorder and the… Read More

Commencing on June 2nd, the museum has been showing the large format film “Sacred Planet” with DTS Lossless sound, which DTS introduced earlier this year. The film's run was scheduled to end onAugust 3rd, but has been extended into fall as a result of its popularity. With DTS lossless technology, a soundtrack played in the cinema is bit-for-bit identical to the original master. “Sacred Planet” was recorded in the… Read More