Hear ye! Hear ye! Calling all virtual museum avatars to the first meeting of the Museums in Second Life group.
What: Organizational Meeting of the Museums in Second Life Group
When: October 17th 6:00 PM SL(PST)
Where International Spaceflight Museum – Spaceport Alpha sim
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/48/78/24/
Join us at Spaceport Alpha to meet others who are building museum spaces and activities in Second Life. The focus of this meeting will be to establish a regular meeting time and rotating visits to SL museums. This group hopes to be a forum for discussing the challenges and success of museums in SL.
Contact “Aethalides Kukulcan” (aka me) for additional information.
Second Life has been growing in leeps and bounds – now counting over 700,000 citizens. If you haven’t had an opportunity to explore, you can find more information about Second Life on their website.
I’m looking forward to our session at the upcoming Museum Computer Network conference where a panel of experts will have a chance to discuss current museum gaming and virtual environments. Hope you can join us in Pasadena!
October 3rd, 2006 07:44
[...] Late last week Richard Urban of Musematic announced the inaugural meeting of the “Museums in Second Life” group. In case you haven’t heard of Second Life, it is 3-D virtual online world maintained and governed by a company called Linden Research, but built and owned entirely by users. More than 300,000 people currently “inhabit” Second Life, making friends, doing work, buying and selling property, building homes, and doing most of the other things they’d do in “first life” (and some things that they wouldn’t). Lest you think it’s all a game, however, Linden reports millions of dollars worth of “in-world” business transactions among Second Life “residents” every month. [...]
December 6th, 2006 02:22
[...] Finally, back in October there was the first museum meeting in SecondLife at the International Spaceflight Museum (the first museum in SecondLife?). It will be interesting to see what happens in this unique space 3D environment. [...]
August 19th, 2010 10:21
[...] It seems I’m not the only one who has had the idea, heres an interesting article from 2007 Museums and the Web Conference. Much like 2nd life itself, 2nd life has its very own museum community. [...]