Today, though, some years into their digital experiments, the museums' dreams have diverged.
Illari has also taken the experiments into museums, middle schools and high schools.
The day was dedicated to projects, ideas and experiments by museums, arts organisations and practitioners who are using data to create real change.
We performed a user experiment in which museum professionals used vocabularies from the Web for annotating the subject matter of museum objects.
The exhibits include handcrafted elegy books in which visitors can share their recollections, a video story booth for recording memories and an open-microphone meeting on Nov. 13 at BAM. "We knew this was going to be an emotional experience for visitors and an interesting experiment for the museums," said Drew Johnson, curator of photography at the Oakland museum.
It was a torture device, a science experiment, an ethnographic museum, a work of art.
Klopfer's museum experiment seems calm and contained compared to geo-caching, which one website calls "the sport where you are the search engine". A treasure chest, containing a logbook and perhaps some rewards, is buried in some obscure location.
Now populated by a permanent workforce dressed in period costume, Skansen is part social experiment, part living museum.
Höller, who has previously performed experiments on New Museum patrons, has exhibited in some of the world's most presitgious museums and and galleries.
All visitors to museums can experiment with being at once consumers, critics, and creators of museum content, even if just in their private musings.
Artists in the late 1960's, however, were interested in moving beyond the museum and experimenting with non-art materials.
