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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is looking for your input into their services online, in an effort to best serve visitors and researchers from across the country and abroad when the museum itself officially opens in 2012.

An online survey can be found at this address – http://svy.mk/mRHaWs – and contains a series of short questions that will help the museum better understand your Web needs with respect to the institution.

Should you have difficulties in accessing the link above, please contact us via email at service@chin.gc.ca, and we will coordinate sending an MS Word of the questionnaire.

The National Capital Commission has launched a pilot project using QR codes to allow visitors the opportunity to discover the history and the artists who created several national monuments in Canada’s Capital region. There are also clips recorded for children by children.

QR codes are shown on a red maple leaf on the monument or nearby. Visitors must have a smartphone with a QR code reader to access the multimedia clips. There are many free QR code readers that smartphone owners can load onto their phone. 

QR codes provide an inexpensive way for cultural organizations to provide access to interpretive content to the ever increasing numbers of smartphone users.

A recent report examined visitor experiences with multi-touch tables in the Arctic Exhibit at the Vancouver Aquarium. 

The research, carried out by the InnoVis Group, University of Calgary, studied interactions with two tables in a high volume gallery that receives over 500,000 people annually.  One table allows visitors to browse through large collections of media items with information about the Arctic; the other features interactive visualizations illustrating environment and political influences in today’s Arctic. 

One goal of the research was to look at the social interactions that took place in the galleries.  Particularly in the case of the visualizations table, there was a certain amount of collaboration and discussion on certain information aspects.  Jeff Heywood of the Vancouver Aquarium said that the findings are helping the Aquarium in the design of their next-generation of multi-touch multi-user exhibits

Twitter has been developing some new functions that will be beneficial for subscribers.  To assist organizations using Twitter, Twitter released a new follow button. This will allow visitors to your site to follow you on Twitter without having to leave your site. Twitter also recently introduced a link shortener. After you compose a tweet and hit “tweet”, a link to your post will automatically be shortened to 19 characters without having to use another site.

Other features intended to make it easier for Twitter users include an improved search and easy way to post images directly from Twitter, which will be unrolled in the near future.

A recent Pew internet study found that 13% of online adults use Twitter, a rise from 5% of US internet users in fall 2010. Social media continue to be a valuable communications tool.

If you want your museum to stand out on the Web, you need to know your audience, have specific goals and build a community. Google +1 is another social tool that can help you achieve your goals and expand your online community.

The benefits of using Google +1

This is the Hygrade principle: the more people who add a + (similar to the Like option in Facebook), the more your website will be listed in Google search results by different communities and in organic search results in general.

To do this, your Google profile must be public. And, you have to encourage your community to recommend your pages by clicking on the +1 button for Web content it likes.

How do I add a Google +1 button to my website?

Go to Google +1, personalize your code, and copy and paste the code into your site. 

Is this another Google Buzz?

It’s possible that, like Google Buzz, Google +1 won’t catch on. 

But one thing is certain: Google will continue to make advances in the field of social networking, and one day, they’ll come up with another winner. Will that winner be Google+1? For now, there is minimal risk and effort involved in adding a +1 to your site. Regardless of the results, it can only help you get the most out of Google for your site (SEO).

How could the reopening of a bridge some 70 years ago…connect the future to the past? Visit History Matters and learn more about the fascinating story of one historical photo from British Columbia that became an Internet sensation last year. This episode, produced in partnership with the Bralorne Museum, is accompanied by a link to hundreds of images that help tell the story of British Columbia’s rich mining history, through the online exhibition Their Past Lives Here, hosted at virtualmuseum.ca. Visit History Matters, and hop into your time machine of Canadian community histories.

History Matters was the Gold Program Winner in the category of Educational Podcast at the New York Festivals® Radio Program and Promotion Awards.

From Labatt and Eccles in 1847 to London Brewery and finally John Labatt Limited, the Labatt Family has played an important role in the development of the city of London, Ontario.

Until now, the collection—a showcase of this rich history—was maintained by John Labatt Limited in London.

On June 1, 2011, the brewery donated its collection to the University of Western Ontario and Museum London. The collection is valued at $8.3 million.

Labatt Brewery collection to be digitized

The donation came with $200,000 to help the University’s museum digitize the documents in the collection.

Thanks to this partnership with the private sector, Canadians will be able to admire artefacts and works of art at Museum London that highlight a part of Canadian history.  

On virtualmuseum.ca

Visit virtualmuseum.ca to view an image gallery, learning objects and an exhibit devoted to beer. The McCord Museum also boasts pictures of the Labatt family in its collection.

Protecting and maintaining a collection’s objects is an essential and ongoing museum activity. This activity makes it possible to preserve objects in their original state and prevent high restoration costs.

Oxydation and rust are constant threats to metals. That is why they must be cleaned, protected, shined…in short, they must be carefully maintained.

Does your collection include copper, brass, bronze, iron, steel, cast iron, stainless steel, silver, silver plated, tin, tinplate, pewter or lead objects? The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) website will help you identify problems with your metal objects and offers tips and practical solutions to help you care for them.

Go to Recognizing Metals and their Corrosion Products, a resource produced by Parks Canada under the title Rust Never Sleeps. It is available in both HTML and PDF formats.

Protecting and maintaining a collection’s objects is an essential and ongoing museum activity. This activity makes it possible to preserve objects in their original state and prevent high restoration costs.

Oxydation and rust are constant threats to metals. That is why they must be cleaned, protected, shined…in short, they must be carefully maintained.

Does your collection include copper, brass, bronze, iron, steel, cast iron, stainless steel, silver, silver plated, tin, tinplate, pewter or lead objects? The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) website will help you identify problems with your metal objects and offers tips and practical solutions to help you care for them.

Go to Recognizing Metals and their Corrosion Products, a resource produced by Parks Canada under the title Rust Never Sleeps. It is available in both HTML and PDF formats.