{"id":81,"date":"2008-05-13T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T11:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T11:13:24","slug":"muses-on-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/muses-on-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Muses on museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of postings recently, I have just returned from two weeks travelling around Cuba, which was a really amazing experience, a bit like going back in a time warp. Spending time in a developing country really makes you appreciate how diverse the world is and how many creature comforts we take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>While there we had the opportunity to visit many, many museums. I hate museums. With a passion. They make me want to fall asleep the minute I walk through the door and look at objects in boxes with lots of accompanying text (even the &#8216;interactive&#8217; exhibits don&#8217;t really do it for me and generally seem tokenistic and pointless).<\/p>\n<p>Then I discovered the museum of rum. Finally, a museum that I found interesting. Objects and gadgets that you can touch and play with. Signs in Spanish that you have to translate. Free rum.<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking about ways in which museums could be made more interesting (for me, anyway):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>providing an experience rather than just information;<\/li>\n<li>making this a true multisensory expereince (taste, touch, smell, sound as well as pictures and text);<\/li>\n<li>creating a puzzle to make people find out information rather than simply providing it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess this is all pretty obvious stuff, and maybe museums in this country have changed since the last time I ventured into one. I will have to force myself into one for research purposes. I wonder if there is a museum of real ale in Manchester&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of postings recently, I have just returned from two weeks travelling around Cuba, which was a really amazing experience, a bit like going back in a time warp. Spending time in a developing country really makes&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/muses-on-museums\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-interaction","tag-museums"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}