Language Support
The museum uses QRpedia to allow visitors to read Wikipedia articles about objects in their collection, translated into their preferred language. The translations were created by Wikipedians throughout the world in the Spring and Summer of 2011. In some cases the articles are shorter but in other cases the best article may be available in Finnish or Indonesian. The system allows visitors to use their Smart phones to read about all the main artefacts in languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Belarusian, Indonesian, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish and Catalan as well as some support for languages such as more unusual offerings like Anglo Saxon, Latin and Cossack. This list is not exhaustive. The Derby museum specific artefacts are described in over sixty languages; objects like minerals - such as the local matlockite, of which the museum has a sizeable piece - that appear in many museums would be supported in over 100 languages.
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