Museums around the world joined in the #MusGIF fun this week by sharing short, quirky and usually amusing GIFs via Twitter. Many charities and fundraisers recognise the value and popularity of digital video, but struggle to create video content. Yet GIFs can offer a quick and free option to create animated content that will attract, inform and entertain. You can get a sense of the range of opportunities from these museums' contributions from Museums GIF day, one of many creative collaborative campaigns from @MarDixon at @CultureThemes. 1. Royal Ontario Museum https://twitter.com/ROMtoronto/status/852142273399795712 2. US National Archives https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/852148248911519744 The US National Archives has created so many that it has created its own GIPHY channel. GIPHY is a set of free tools to create, publish and share GIFs. Its GIPHY channel currently has 217 GIFs. The Skagens Kunstmuseer is another museum with its own GIPHY channel. 3. Shangri La, Museum for Islamic Arts and Cultures https://twitter.com/hi_shangrila/status/852332465981014016 4. Waterloo Region Museum https://twitter.com/WRegionMuseum/status/852278920984629248 5. Glasgow Women's Library https://twitter.com/womenslibrary/status/852258497953759232 6. National Portrait Gallery https://twitter.com/NPGLondon/status/852121883042615296 7. Birmingham Museums https://twitter.com/BM_AG/status/852247606050926594 8. National Museums Scotland https://twitter.com/NtlMuseumsScot/status/852113977073180672 9. Derby Museums https://twitter.com/derbymuseums/status/852223420091817984 You will note that Derby Museum's used the free MakeAGIF.com service to create their animation. 10. The Postal Museum https://twitter.com/thepostalmuseum/status/852211218018443264 More #MusGIFs If that wasn't quite enough for you, try exploring more #MusGIFs. Illuminating GIFs at the Bodleian Library One organisation that has really gone to town with GIFs has been the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Adam Koszary spent a year there working on its social media accounts and devoted some of his time to animating some of the museum's medieval images. He wondered if animated illuminated manuscripts might not look appropriate from such a seat of scholarship, but found that the GIFs proved very popular. He started off by creating a GIF around a particular date or occasion, such as St Patrick's Day. Then he moved on to hashtag-driven dates such as #InternationalCoffeeDay, and then simply offering a comment on the weather, such as an image depicting sinners in Hell to illustrate some hot summer days at Oxford. https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs/status/818481712577380352 https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs/status/810427638724464640 https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs/status/798567011102048256 https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs/status/815925364316901376 https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs/status/794563003689631744 https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs/status/793088503441657857 Koszary, who suggests using Photoshop and the open source GIMP, to create GIFs concluded: "Animating our historic collections is a good thing. They can enlighten and they can entertain, and that is what museums and libraries should be doing." His approach has clearly inspired others: https://twitter.com/WelLibOxford/status/846720782269005824 Main image: Zoetrope by The Film Museum on Flickr.com What's your favourite GIF creation tool? Share in the comments below.
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10 museums’ short video animations from #MusGIF day
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