Technological Advancement even Prevelant in Museums

I always looked to Museums as an archive of the past, especially the The Natural History Museum. I have done a study in ethnography on the Natural History Museum that reflect's the societie's constant technological gains and advancements that even an archive of History has to incoporate.



There are many massive television screens that people sit through and watch movies. I came across about fifteen of these massive screens. One is in the sea room or otherwise known as the "whale room". The biodiversity hall has many of these in which different movies play. The Dinosaur Wing has an entire movie explaining the history of the dinosaurs.


Most people seem to sit through the entire movie and settle down rather than manouver their way through the exhibit and learn the information and their own rather than just being told.


There are many different Computer stations that exist in almost every single wing, including the oldest, in the Dinosaur Wing. New technologies can be seen everywhere in this museum. There is even a thermal camera that you can walk by and it can read your body temperature. This reflects our culture and how we are constantly moving forward in the technological era. You can see it everywhere in the museum with new screen being placed in old halls every year.