The novel strategy of open source museum development has borne its first fruit, the Art, Film & Music exhibition which is opening next month.  All six winners from the recent SL to RL competition will be included.  To celebrate, the Tech will host a Summit on Digital Democracy in Exhibit Design on June 4, 2008, the day of the opening.  The event will take place at The Tech in San Jose, and will also be streamed live to The Tech Virtual Museum in Second Life.  Keynote speakers will be Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab founder and Chairman, and Peter Friess, Ph.D., President of The Tech. A panel of leaders from the museum and technology worlds will consider the following questions:

• How can external experts and amateurs play a role in exhibit design?
• How useful are virtual worlds for museums?
• How to build and manage an online community.
• How to foster inter-museum collaboration.

And You, as a member of the Tech Virtual community, are invited!  Remember the date:

Just a quick post to share with you the roster of exhibits to be featured in the RL exhibition at The Tech Museum in June.  Due to space constraints, we were not able to include all the fabulous exhibits we wish we could have included... but there are many more future opportunities for your virtual creations to become real exhibits in both the art, film, & music category and many more to come.

To learn more about the exhibition as a whole and the individual exhibits, please download the attached PDF file!