Virtual Museum Workshop
Virtual Museum Workshop on Second Life
The Tech Virtual is an online community hosted by The Tech Museum in San Jose, California, which gives everyone the opportunity to design and prototype an exhibit with feedback and guidance from Science Centre professionals. The designs may be developed and discussed in a virtual world environment (Second Life) or submitted in any other digital format. Designs that fit the Science Centre's needs may then be selected to be built and installed in the Centre's galleries.
In 2010 the Science Centre Singapore called for exhibit ideas on the topic of Water. This generated about 25 ideas, half of which were developed into virtual prototypes. So far, two of these have been selected to be turned into real e