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These are a few examples of projects that the museum has undertaken — click on the poster or the “More” link to find out more about each project.
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Virtual Museum is an exercise in envisioning what a physical museum might eventually look like, and it will also stand on its own as an engaging educational experience. More…
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Re(Collection) is an initiative to create a compendium of the Boston area’s new media history that is also inclusive of the interrelated fields of electronic media, communications and computing. More…
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New Media Library is an attempt to make the books that are buried in the New Media Museum’s many Collections more visible and accessible by posting them as “Bookshelves” on the individual collection pages and then collating them to create a “Library” browsable by category. More…
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PC 2100 is an initiative to maintain the Personal Computing Collection as a “living archive” that will continue to run the past 50 years of standard personal computing hardware and software until the year 2100 and beyond. More…
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Paths not Taken is an effort to systematically document and preserve functional demos of technologies that did not succeed in the “marketplace” and become part of the dominant products available to consumers today, but insiders and historians tend to agree held unrealized potential. More…