Collections Management iMu EMu’s self guided tours for iPods

Collections Management New EMu Web Functionality Object search and display Narrative search and display Narrative browsing Personal lists (“shopping carts”) List review and management

Collections Management iMu Publish your list to a different device in a different format Supported formats include: Self guided tour for iPod (video or audio) Playlist for iPod (video or audio) Printed guided tour Printed catalogue

Collections Management An Overview of our “National Museum” Ground Floor First Floor Basement

Collections Management The “National Museum’s” Collection Over two hundred objects contributed by EMu users from around the world Each object has at least one image

Collections Management Title:Parson Weems’ Fable Creator:Grant Wood Creation date:1939 Medium:Oil on canvas Accession No:KE Source:Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth, Texas, USA Dimensions:92 (W) x 58 (H) cm

Collections Management

The “National Museum’s” Collection Over two hundred objects contributed by EMu users from around the world Each object has at least one image There is a narrative for each object

Collections Management Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable 1939, Oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth, Texas, USA The famous anecdote of George Washington’s youthful honesty regarding a chopped-down cherry tree was created by bookseller and itinerant preacher Parson Mason Locke Weems in Weems, who appears here as the narrator, believed the tale "too valuable to be lost, and too true to be doubted." Grant Wood embellishes the scene through clever use of repeating motifs, such as the spherical shapes in the trees, buttons, cherries, and cherry like curtain fringe. The artist also designed the painting's frame, which repeats the spherical motif with ornamental beading and picks up the star on the house with a series of painted stars. …

Collections Management The “National Museum’s” Collection Over two hundred objects contributed by EMu users from around the world Each object has at least one image There is a narrative for each object Overlaying the object narratives is a hierarchy of “theme” narratives, allowing users to browse and drill down to any object