Friday, April 30, 2010

Zooming the artifacts


www.americanrevolution.org is an online exhibit website operates with its mission to create the first national museum explaining the whole story of American revolution. It takes one of the most memorable eras of U.S. history and makes it applicable and accessible through visually-stunning website.

The users can explore by zooming in on the objects so they would be able to see & feel a lot of details on each artifacts. They can also listen to the podcasts from its curator who explains the background of each artifacts' history. On the very bottom there are timetable buttons that explain those timeless artifacts & history from the memorable Boston tea party to the image of Ronald Reagan of General Washington in Pennsylvania. The style is quite minimal with the full-bleed background images of collection of painting and collages that scale fit to the browser. The content is easily shared through the social-networking technologies embedded through the site. In conclusion, this website is very exciting that is somehow eliminates the boringness of history lessons and in a way much more fun & saving time rather than going to a museum.

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