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Experience 360 Degree Virtual Tour of Florence Museum
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- Created on Monday, 12 December 2011 06:49
- Written by Erlend Bakke
If you have always dreamed of travelling to Florence, SC, what we are about to share will be heaven for you. We have learned over the weekend a new project going in Florence that aims to provide a 360 degree interactive experience of the city to the world for free.
Creating 360 Degree Virtual Tour of the Florence Museum
The Florence County Library System just received a grant of almost $37,000 for their long time Virtual Museum project like most states are doing right now to promote tourism and awareness. The grant came from various Library Services and Technology Acts currently implemented and utilized by tourists and the locals.
Dubbed as the first of its kind project of the city, Florence Museum has partnered with Florence County Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create 360 Degree Virtual Museum to further expand the state’s information services in multiple formats.
This is in response of the number of visits the museum has so far. Last 2010 according to Ray McBride, Florence County Library System Director, “The Florence County Library System had more than 582,000 physical visits among its six locations and more than 500,000 visits to its website. The Florence Museum, by contrast, had 21,000 physical visits.”
However even with today’s technology, this project is no easy task. Cataloguer Hunter Deas is commissioned to input 5,000 items from the museum’s collection in the library’s online digital catalog to create the 360 degree virtual tour. Not to mention, the great care he has to make in handling all those fossils and antiques.
McBride added, “The museum will become a seventh branch of the library and generate interest on a much larger scale by making the collection more easily accessible. By making it more accessible. It hopefully will increase traffic both virtually and through physical visits to the museum.” “Museums or libraries expend a tremendous amount of resources just letting the public know about what they have,” McBride said. “If you know what’s there, you’ll want to come see it.”