The Museums Australia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards are held every year as part of the Museums Australia conference. They recognise excellence in exhibitions, publications and websites within the Australian and New Zealand museum sector. This year one of our clients, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, won the Best Website (Category A – large organisations) award.
River & Rowing Museum
The River & Rowing Museum, UK launched their new and improved website in 2012. The redesign aimed to create a clean modern look to the site with better use of photography as well as creating a more engaging user experience. We incorporated new technologies using an open source content management system that would be easier for staff to use and allow for on-going upgrades. The previous site already had access to the collection through the Vernon browser, but this site was
Moving the photographic collection at North Otago Museum
The North Otago Museum holds an impressive photographic collection comprising of over 500,000 photographs of North Otago people and places, ranging in date from the 1860’s up to the present day. These photographs are on a range of media including glass plates, cellulose negatives and paper prints. For over twenty years this valuable collection was housed in two safes within the main museum building. The environment within both safes was unsuitable for the storage of photographic collections, with temperature and
A Regional Australian Registrar Visits the National Gallery of Victoria
or from Casula to Melbourne and back again, an eye-opening experience
RFID Technology in use at the Otago Museum
The Otago Museum is leading the way in widely adopting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging, a system that will eventually see every collection item tracked within Vernon Collection. The RFID process involves attaching a RFID tag (which contains a microchip with a unique ID encoded to its memory and a small antenna) to a collection item which can then be detected as the item travels past readers, or with a mobile device.
Vernon Systems develops innovative software for cultural organisations to manage and share their collections. We've been dedicated to the cultural sector since 1985.