Friday, June 29, 2001

The visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum was very interesting despite the fact that the repository is not working yet. Instead you get to see a bunch of TV monitors spread around the museum running looped segments of testimonies grouped by themes like "before the war", "children" and "helpers". Disturbingly, small LCD screens mounted on the wall display historic footage but have no credits whatsoever. While the backdrop photographs where they're inserted have lengthy credits including date, place and author, the people in charge of the exhibition seem to think that a moving image is worth a good credit. Or maybe they're just not used yet to including video as part of an exhibition.

The CD-ROM is filled with videos, pictures and texts. I liked the fact that many words inside the texts have links to different levels (brief or extented) of further information. And there's a lot of information on it! I got frustrated by the small size of the photographs, though - I wish there was a zoom button somewhere.

But the two experiences - walking the museum and browsing the CD-ROM - felt very different to me. I'll post later more thoughts about it.
And here's my full CameraPlanet review with screenshots.