8/18/2011 A "Modern" Museum

If modern means keeping up with the times then the Nevada Museum of Art is a modern museum. It's also a museum with modern art in it, but I'm talking about the museum itself in its principles and practices. In the Egyptian exhibit, you could rent audio tours that included an audio player of some kind where you could listen to detailed descriptions of items in the collection. OR, if you saw a sign with a red cell phone icon on it and a number, you could call a specific phone number on your cell phone, press the number on the sign followed by the pound key, and listen to the detailed information on your own cell phone. I saw it in Washington DC at some of the monuments two summers ago but this is the first time I've seen it in a museum like this. Very impressive.

And then there was this notice! Wow. We are into MODERN times now.