Getting Started: The Louvre and the Pez Museum

All across the world, there are museums of all sorts. The Louvre in Paris, France of course attracts a wide variety of people from art enthusiasts to tourists that feel they have to go simply because they are in Paris. And really, what’s a vacation to Paris without a trip to the Louvre?

While there’s the Louvre in Paris, there is the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in Burlingame, California. Here, you can see and admire every Pez dispenser ever made. Although I, myself, am in no dire need to go visit the Pez museum, I image there is someone that would rather visit Burlingame, California’s Pez Museum than seeing the Mona Lisa in Paris.

However different and far away the Louvre and the Pez Museum are, they have something in common. They both use multimedia tools to enhance the museum. The Louvre offers a virtual tour of the galleries and exhibitions. And the Pez Museum has a podcast that walks you through the museum’s entire collection.

The Louvre and the Pez Museum are just two examples of how today’s museums are using tools such as, virtual tours and podcasts, to enhance and/or create the museum experience. For me, the podcast creates a sense of appreciation for the Pez Museum and now if I am ever in the area, I may be temped to go visit it. And while I am still crossing my fingers for my trip to Paris and the Louvre, for now the virtual tour offers me a glimpse of what I have to look forward to.

This blog, “Today’s Museums” will introduce and focus on multiple museums that use multimedia tools to enhance and/or create the museum experience. These tools can be used by those that are going, hope to go or are just interested in the wide range of museums that the world has to offer.

I hope you enjoy.