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iMu

EMu’s self guided tours for iPods

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New EMu Web Functionality

• Object search and display• Narrative search and display• Narrative browsing• Personal lists (“shopping carts”)• List review and management

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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

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An Overview of our “National Museum”

Ground Floor

First Floor

Basement

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The “National Museum’s” Collection

• Over two hundred objects contributed by EMu users from around the world

• Each object has at least one image

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Title: Parson Weems’ Fable

Creator: Grant Wood

Creation date: 1939

Medium: Oil on canvas

Accession No: KE-2006-247

Source: Amon Carter Museum

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Dimensions: 92 (W) x 58 (H) cm

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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

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Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable1939, 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 1806. 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. …

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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