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Film: Experiments in emerging technology at the Science Museum

In December 2016 the Science Museum Group launched Digital Lab to do experiments in emerging museum technology for their four museums and point towards the future of digital within a museum context.

What does a lab do which a museum’s digital department hasn’t traditionally done? This presentation will take you behind the scenes in one of the world’s most exciting museum tech teams.

Dave Patten spoke about experiments in emerging museum technology at Science Museum during MuseumNext Rotterdam 2017.

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