Elaine Addington, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre – Museum Minecraft
In exclusive interview to JSON.TV Elaine Addington, Open Museum Curator at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre shares experience of IT technology usage in Scotland museums for people with disabilities. They are using a lot of touch screens and audio, also show very interesting experience of applying 3-D computer game Minecraft for the museum needs. The game interface is used to build historical events or buildings and objects modeling.
Leading experts from the major museums of the world - New York Metropolitan, Tate Gallery in London and the program "Open Museum" from Glasgow - held master classes at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art "Garage" on September 29. Workshops were held in the framework of large-scale three-day training "Museum of sensations", to ensure the availability of museums for visitors with impaired hearing, vision, and deaf-blind, organized by the "Garage" together with Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection).
