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Well we can probably look forward to the day when every exhibit can have its own computer and able to afford it. Also there is the promise of little robots cruising about in museums enriching the musing and goodness knows what else. The sceptics say "its a way off yet" but there you go these same people said the same thing about iPODs and all kinds of things.
One museum, the Santa Cruz MAH has worked out how to get iPODs in the museum – and very very cheaply. They are asking their community to donate their old iPODs to them. If you upgrade to an iTOUCH or an iPHONE you'll, as likely as not, you'll have a redundant iPOD. If you're not sure what to do with that iPOD that was such a big purchase back then, well you could give it a museum who wants to engage with its audience.
That museum would offer you a way to redistribute your resources instead of throwing away something that has more technology in it than most things in your home and has an enormous amount of musing life left in it. ALL THIS CAN HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
Museums need iPODs, old and new, to play music, deliver sound bytes and more still in the galleries. MoNA in Hobart has started to work out what can be done with this kind of technology. So take your forlorn and lonely iPOD to the front desk of a museum near you and test its relevance to the 21st C. Your museum may well give it a new life, or have a solution for you that supports local art and history in your community.
A 21st C museum should be able to offer you a way to redistribute your resources instead of throwing away something that has more technology in it than your microwave. A 20th C museum would look to their collection policy and wonder if you iPOD would fit their collection policy.
Indeed yo may well have other superseded technology that could still do a job in a museum beyond being an exhibit!
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