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Open museums create open societies

Museums of all shapes and sizes should have the tools to integrate technology into their collections and exhibit spaces without paying huge amounts of money to giant tech conglomerates whose only interest is generating profit. At CLIO Museums we want to create those tools.

Our current project is creating custom tablets using 3D printing and open source software for mini museum boxes that can be checked out by local schools. The final version will use NFC tags to pull up information, media, and lesson plans when you scan different objects.

Personal computing started when a bunch of enthusiasts with a little bit of know-how started messing around in garages and ended in a revolution. Let’s bring that same spirit to building technology for museums.

A slightly blurry video of our in progress tablet prototype for Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture education boxes. We're excited to see this project start to come together!

Another video of our tablet prototype for our Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Burke Box tablet. The placeholder content is from their Lewis and Clark box, but we're developing content for this prototype about the history and science of nuclear development in Hanford WA.

Testing some new features for our museum education tablet prototype!

Printed our first case design for the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Burke Box tablets today!

Our paper about the CLIO project has been published by museweb! We’re bummed to be missing everyone at #MW20 but are thrilled to share our project with the online MuseWeb community. Looking forward to filming our accompanying presentation! mw20.museweb.net/paper/designin…

Check out our paper and presentation at museweb! #MW20

Were you in our Crit Session at #MW20? Give us feedback at tinyurl.com/CLIOCritique

Anyone from ⁦@LivingComputers⁩ know who could help out with this? apple.news/AoGB6nzr7Q8Wcm…

Interested in using free #opensource tech at your #museum? Did you see our presentation at #MW20 this year want to know more? Join us for a lunch and learn next week to find out more about CLIO and a discussion about how your institution could use open source #musetech!

We just wrapped up our first lunch and learn about CLIO! Thanks to everyone who turned out today, and if you couldn't make it there's still plenty of room in tomorrow's session. RSVP at cliomuseums.org/seminar if you'd like to join!

Hey #Museum Twitter! Do you use technology at your institution? Is it #OpenSource ? I'm doing research for MCN on how and why museums are using #OpenSource technology and could use your help! Take the five minute survey here: tinyurl.com/OpenSourceSurv… #museums #musetech

Introducing the POP 7" touchscreen kiosk! Build-it-yourself with open-source, off-the-shelf parts and 3D printing. Create a digital interactive using CLIO, or do just about anything else you can imagine. thingiverse.com/metaphorraccoo…