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Mossel Bay, South Africa

Launch: International Museum Day, 18 May, 2011

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220 8'32.39"E

QR (Quick Response) Codes• Trademarked matrix (two-dimensional) barcodes

• Invented (Japan, 1994) by Toyota’s Denso Wave to track vehicles during manufacture

• Fast to read

• Large storage capacity

• URLs, V-cards, text, etc

• Trackable

“Unlike the old bar code that was designed to be mechanically scanned by a

narrow beam of light, the QR code is detected as a 2-dimensional digital image by

a semiconductor image sensor and is then digitally analyzed by a programmed

processor. The processor locates the three distinctive squares at the corners of

the image, and normalizes image size, orientation, and angle of viewing. The

small dots are then converted to binary numbers and validity checked with an

error-correcting code.” (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

QR Code Reader

from your

App store

One page proposal

Accepted mid-April 2012

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http://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/422-bartolomeu-dias-museum-complex

Pilot project: fifteen codes

• The Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complexhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/422-bartolomeu-dias-museum-complex

• The Post Office Tree http://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/6898-the-post-office-tree

• The Maritime Museumhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/421-maritime-museum

• The Granaryhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/6906-the-granary

• The Shell Museumhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/420-shell-museum-amp-aquarium

• The Braille trail & field gardenhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/418-ethno-botanical-garden-amp-braille-trail

• Dias’ springhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/6915-dias-spring

• The caravel ‘Bartolomeu Dias’http://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/caravel-bartolomeu-dias/

• Local history collectionhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/dias-museum-complex-local-history-collection/

• Live specimen displayhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/dias-museum-complex-live-specimen-display/

• Whale watching in Mossel Bayhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/attractions/whale-watching-in-mossel-bay/

• The Munro's Hoek cottageshttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/the-munros-hoek-cottages/

• The Mossel Bay Archaeology Projecthttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/the-mossel-bay-archaeology-project/

• The Malay graveshttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/malay-graves-at-the-dias-museum-complex/

• Shipwrecks of Mossel Bayhttp://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/attractions/shipwrecks-of-mossel-bay/

The Post Office Tree

http://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/play/museums-and-culture/item/6898-the-post-office-tree

Web page: 665 words

... With space for more

+ Videos + Photos, etc.

Brochure: 394 words

The Caravel ‘Bartolomeu Dias’

http://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/museums-and-culture/caravel-bartolomeu-dias/

The Braille Trail

Dias’ Spring

Mossel Bay whale watching

Munro’s Hoek Cottages

Maritime Museum

Shell Museum

The Malay Graves

International Museum Day

• 18 May 2012: 35th International Museum Day

• More than 30,000 museums in about 100

countries

• Theme for 2012: ‘Museums in a Changing

World. New challenges, New inspirations’

“The theme invites museums and their visitors to think about the role of museums in our society in an era of numerous changes: International Museum Day 2012 is as much about museums growing and shaping their future, as it is about displaying and interpreting new issues like climate change, new media or social responsibility.” (International Council of Museums)

Mossel Bay Tourism

deputy chairperson Ray Murray

Dias Museum Complex

manager Mbulelo Mrubata

Ray & Mbulelo cut the ribbon with Mossel Bay Tourism COO Marcia Holm

A Dias Museum Complex tradition: the Museum Day market

Museum staff honoured during Museum Day for long service to government

• AT THE LECTERN: Dias Museum management

committee chairperson Harold Muller

• HONOUREES FROM LEFT: Anita Marx: 40 years

government service; Began 4 January 1971, joined

the Dias Museum 1 November 1989

• Erna Marx: joined the Museum 2 January 1990

• Amanda Human: joined 26 January 1988

• Elize Levendal: joined 11 January 1988

• Tracey MacDonald: Began Government service

21 May 1991; joined the Museum 1 May 1998

• FRONT: Ria Kannemeyer: joined the Museum on

21 January 1988.

First international visitor to follow the tour

Canada’s Patrick Kelly,

travelling with his wife,

Angela.

Patrick: “Life is a journey.

Let me help you unpack.”

1 Market Street,Mossel Bay

Telephone: 0027(0)44 691 1067

www.diasmuseum.co.za

Monday to Friday 09h00 - 16h45

Weekends and Public Holidays 09h00 - 15h45.

Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday.

Download a pdf booklet about the Museums of Mossel Bay here:

http://visitmosselbay.co.za/wp-content/themes/mbay/downloads/Museums.pdf

The Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex’s QR codes tour is sponsored by

Mossel Bay Tourism, a non-profit company largely funded by Mossel Bay Municipality

www.visitmosselbay.co.za

Slide presentation by Martin Hatchuel / BarefootClients May 2012