The Changing Museum Experience
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April P AkinsIS 590 Social Informatics
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The Changing Museum Experience
Museum InformaticsMuseum Informatics is the study of the impact of information science and technology on museums, museum professionals,
and museum visitors.
Museums & Technology 1960s – Museum professionals start using
computers for information management. Valued for automating repetitive and time-
consuming tasks 1968 – First conference about computers and
their potential in museums Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
1997 – First Museums and the Web conference held
Museum Professional Roles
Museum Professionals must manage a wide variety of information about their collections. This information is needed to identify and describe museum objects and integrate them into particular collections. Objects are accessioned, weighed and measured,
photographed, marked with a unique identification number and so on.
Information about how the museum received the object, how long it will be in the museum’s collections (if it is on loan), and where it will be stored or displayed must be recorded. Details of the object’s provenance, historical importance, and cultural significance must be researched.
Evolution of Technology &
MuseumsCard and Ledger
FilesMultimedia KiosksCD-ROM TechnologyUser-Managed
Virtual Layers (Social Tagging & Social Networking)
Technology’s Impact on Museums
Technology Within the Museum
Technology housed in the museum to enhance the experienceMultimedia Kiosks, Interactive Exhibits, 3D TechnologiesGallery One - Cleveland Museum of Art
Bringing Technology in
MuseumsMobile technologies being used while visiting a museumSmartphone & Tablet Applications, QR Codes (Quick Response Codes), Social Networking SitesMobiles in Museums
Bringing the Museum to
UsersDigital Collections, Databases & Applications to access the collectionDigital Libraries & Database Websites, Smartphone & Tablet Applications
Google Art Project
Information Professionals
Role information professionals play in the meshing of technology and
museums
Where do you fit into a Museum Environment?
Multimedia Developers Interactive Exhibits in the Gallery Online Virtual Environments
Information Expertise New Hardware and Software Possibilities
Information Management Planning Digitization Projects Purchasing Collections Information Systems
Museum Education Connections to Schools and other Institutions
Tate Museum MoMA * Louvre
Museum Mobile Apps
Resources: Where to go Books
Marty, Paul F., and Katherine Burton-Jones, eds. 2008. Museum informatics: People, information, and technology in museums. New York: Routledge.
Journals Archives & Museum Informatics Museum Management and Curatorship Curator: The Museum Journal Museum and Society Museum Museums Journal
Resources: Where to go Organizations
American Alliance of Museums (http://www.aam-us.org) Institute of Museums and Library Services (http://www.imls.gov) Museums Association (http://www.museumsassociation.org/home)
Websites and Blogs Museums and the Web (www.museumsandtheweb.com) Archives & Museum Informatics (
http://www.archimuse.com/index.html) Musematic (MCN/AAM): (http://musematic.net/) Museum 2.0 (Nina Simon): (http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/) Museum Blogging (Leslie Madsen-Brooks): http
://www.museumblogging.com/
Summary
Take Away Points Museum Informatics is a growing field that has
been around since the 1960s. Technology has been integrated into Museums
and this relationship will continue to grow. Information Professionals can work in museums
in a variety of ways. The goal should be to incorporate virtual
information into a physical world rather than to replace the physical with the virtual.
Comments & Questions
References:J. H. Canós, et al. "MoMo: enabling hybrid museums." IEE Proceedings -- Software 152, no. 5 (October 2005): 245-251. Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 25, 2013).M.R. Nikou. “Museum Informatics: Educating the Public and Use of Digital Technology.” (February 2008): http://windward.hawaii.edu/people/Marty_Nikou/AMST683_Paper.pdf.J. Trant. “Steve.Museum: Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: Proof of concept. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, vol. 12, no. 1, 2006.