Project Overview

The MIT Museum is leading an innovative location-based storytelling research project, Museum Without Walls (MWOW), to put history and science in your hand and turn the world into a museum. The goal is to help reveal the hidden and the extraordinary in the MIT landscape by encouraging people to learn about their surroundings.  It begins with an Institute-based effort but the project is pioneering the development of technologies as a model usable by any institution or community.

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Project Handouts

• One-Page Handout - Double sided MWOW information sheet.
  

• Technical Overview - 19 page high-level technical concept description
  

• Fundraising Handout - Draft copy of a double-sided, one page fundraising information sheet.

Presentations

• July 11, 2007 - Overview presentation
  
• March 15, 2006 - Introductory presentation 
  

Videos

• MWOW Concept video - Spring, 2006 - Shows a visitor, a prospective student, and the student's mother touring campus with an MWOW device. First shown at MIT in 2006.
  
• Watch it on TechTV
• Quicktime (432x320, 32.7 MB) (192x144 3.6 MB)

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• MWOW Content trailer - Spring, 2007 - Excerpts from videos made at a digital storytelling workshop,  as well as some archival material. First shown at SXSW in 2007.
  
• Quicktime (432x320 7 MB) (192x144 892 KB)
  

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