On Wednesday, I took a visit to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Norman Rockwell was responsible for many of the Saturday Evening Post’s covers. At the museum we were able to see many of his paintings and all of the covers of the Post. To learn more about the museum, visit their website. To learn more about Norman Rockwell, click here.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is one of the nicer museums I have been too. Visiting it got me thinking about the future of museums. Here are some experiences and features that you might find as part of a museum in the near future.

Interactivity
-This should include online and in the actual museum.
-Huge digital walls where you can control what art is displayed. Drag and drop images onto the screen and arrange them how you want.
-Visitors become curators by voting for what they want to see displayed as physical, original work.
Online Experience
-Give people the tools to tell others what they saw at the museum
-Create and share art and creations online
-Museum can hold online contest or scavenger hunts throughout the museum.
-A website similar to coudal.com where it is updated with links to new online resources everyday.
-Create an online community.
Other Ideas
-The use of text messaging.
-Remix the art and the museum experience.
-Podcast tours
-Headphone jack in the wall next to the painting.

What if this was applied to education. If a teacher was a curator and the classroom was a interactive exhibit that changed each day. Stay tuned, and I will explore this idea in a future post.