Largest Multi-Touch Screen in U.S. Installed at Cleveland Art Museum

Museums are places we often go to connect with our pasts. The Cleveland Art Museum, however, is also giving us a glimpse of the future.

The museum recently installed what it claims is the nation's largest multi-touch screen, where as many as 16 visitors at a time can explore the 3,500 works in the permanent collection on display. Pieces are presented as thumbnails on a 40-foot-wide moving grid. Visitors can click on individual images to pull up more information, and to discover similar items by category (such as African art), artist, medium or period.

The wall, housed in a space called Gallery One, is designed to foster stronger engagement between visitors and individual items in the c…
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