by Sholeen Sanker | May 10, 2019 | ETHER, Latest News, Museum Web Sites, Museums
We at ETHER Initiative have come to the conclusion that it is important to get a better understanding of the Heritage sector in South Africa. Much has happened in the 25 years since democracy began and in this time span, many aspirations were put forward to...
by Sholeen Sanker | May 18, 2017 | ETHER, ETHER Conservation, Heritage News, Museum Web Sites, Museums, oral history
18 May 2017 marks International Museum Day. It started in 1977 and is lead by International Council of Museums (ICOM). International Museum Day has grown and as many as 35 000 museums took part in 2016. The theme for this year is, “Museums and contested...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites
We are renewing our offer to museums for us to provide a Mini Web Page which is localised to your town or city, and which is then discoverable by tourists and others. This is part of a larger initiative to create a general cultural atlas of the country, similar to...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites, Museums
The first article in this series introduced the issues with museum web sites, including those issues common to all historical sites and memory institutions. In this second article I focus on some of the content required and how this content can be adapted to meet the...
