We haven't been directly involved in evaluating them, but one of our member institutions, the Museum of Photographic Arts, just implemented them and are working on adding additional QR codes throughout their exhibits. And they just got a nice writeup about QR Codes and the other technology they're now using in the gallery:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/13/mopa-balboa-park/ ~Perian Perian Sully Project Manager: Digital Asset Management & Online Access Balboa Park Online Collaborative Balboa Park? now there?s an app for that <http://bit.ly/bOacHF> Play the GISKIN ANOMALY <giskin.org> cellphone adventure in Balboa Park < http://www.balboapark.org/> BPOC <bpoc.org> is a project of the Benbough Operating Foundation <Benbough.org> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Adrienne Romano < aromano at michenerartmuseum.org> wrote: > Hi John, > > I know this is a delayed response to your posting, but we started to use > QR codes with one of our exhibitions. Haven't had a huge response and I > think there is still a learning curve with our visitors, but we will be > using them for some of our permanent collection works this year. I am > curious if there has been any evaluation with them as well for any other > museums that are using them. > > http://learn.michenerartmuseum.org/2011/01/what-is-this-odd-black-and-wh > ite-square/<http://learn.michenerartmuseum.org/2011/01/what-is-this-odd-black-and-wh%0Aite-square/> > > http://www.nj.com/entertainment/times/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-2/12 > 9861630985830.xml&coll=5<http://www.nj.com/entertainment/times/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-2/12%0A9861630985830.xml&coll=5> > > Thanks, > > Adrienne Romano > > ________________________ > > Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano > Director of Education, New Media and Interpretive Initiatives > James A. Michener Art Museum > aromano at michenerartmuseum.org >