Museums in the Digital Age Photo: Victoria Pickering.
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Museums in the Digital Age Photo: Victoria Pickering
Transcript of Museums in the Digital Age Photo: Victoria Pickering.
Museums in the Digital Age
Photo: Victoria Pickering
1. Museums are places.
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2. Museums collect and display objects.
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3. Museums educate the public.
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—John Cotton DanaThe New Museum, no. 1 (1917)
The worth of a museum
is in its use.
How is the use (and usefulness)of museums impacted in the digital age?
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1. Museums are places.
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Visitors come to museum places.
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Visitors come through the Web.
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Visitors come to explore.
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Visitors visit virtually.
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Visitors visit via robots.
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Museums are places.
Museums are everywhere.
Museums are places.
Museums are everywhere.
Visitors are everywhere.
2. Museums collect and display objects.
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Museums collect ideas and intangibles.
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Museums collect ideas and intangibles.
Museums collect ideas and intangibles.
Museum visitors view objects.
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Museum visitors make objects.
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Museum makers hack objects.
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Objects are unique, physical things.
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Objects are 3D data that can be printed by anyone.
Objects can be skeletons.
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Digital objects can be much more than skeletons.
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3. Museums educate the public.
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The public also educates the public.
People educate museums.
People access museum data.
People visualize museum data.
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People use museum data.
People add their data to museums.
People collaborate and learn together with museums.
Jones-Garmil, K. (1997).” Laying the foundation: Three decades of computer technology in the museum.” In K. Jones-Garmil (Ed.), The wired museum (pp. 35-62). Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums.
How is the use (and usefulness)of museums impacted in the digital age?
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1. as places/spaces?2. as object repositories?3. as educational institutions?
