Michael ParryDirector Public Engagement

Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences

MAAS = Powerhouse Museum + Sydney Observatory + Discovery Centre

michael.parry@phm.gov.au@vaguelym

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Guide-a-phone, American Museum of Natural History 1954

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First? Audio Guide 1952

Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image

15secondplace.acmi.net.au

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p242 “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” Davidson/Webber 2005Hooray!

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“Know-how”Powerhouse Museum CDROM1996

Horseless Carriages = Virtual Audiences

Eventually we didn’t need the horseless anymore

Horseless Carriage?

Meccano Horseless CarriagePowerhouse CollectionRegistration number 2013/120/10

Virtual (Digital?) Audiences?

Some news: they’re just audiences

They just happen to be using different platforms…