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Teching out museums

Museums and galleries around America are experimenting with technology in an effort to keep visitors coming in while also getting them hooked on snazzy websites.

The Dowse Art Museum director Courtney Johnston visited several of the big name galleries there while on a Winston Churchill Fellowship, to find out what's working and what's not.

Courtney Johnston recently visited several big name American galleries and took plenty of pictures of their tech innovations.

Interactive table at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Collection display at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's rather fancy pens.

The Broad museum in Downtown Los Angeles.

Screenshot of the Brooklyn Museum Ask app.

Screenshot of the Brooklyn Museum Ask app.

Screenshot of the Brooklyn Museum Ask app.

Crazy quilts at the Baltimore Museum.

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