Museums in the Digital Age Photo: Victoria Pickering
1. Museums are places. Photo: art around
2. Museums collect and display objects. Photo: Orbital Joe
3. Museums educate the public. Photo: European Council President
—John Cotton Dana The 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? Photo: Aaron Garza
1. Museums are places. Photo: Brett Davis
Visitors come to museum places. Photo: Olli Thomson
Visitors come through the Web. Photo: Design Museum
Visitors come to explore. Photo: CPNAS
Visitors visit virtually. Photo: Google Art Project
Visitors visit via robots. Photo: Seattle Art Museum
Museums are places.
Museums are everywhere. Museums are places.
Museums are everywhere. Visitors are everywhere.
2. Museums collect and display objects. Photo: NCinDC
Museums collect ideas and intangibles. Photo: takomabibelot
Museums collect ideas and intangibles.
Museum visitors view objects. Photo: Karen Neoh
Museum visitors make objects. Photo: Hirshhorn ArtLab+
Museum makers hack objects. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Objects are unique, physical things. Photo: National Museum of American History
Objects are 3D data that can be printed by anyone.
Objects can be skeletons. Photo: National Museum of Natural History
Digital objects can be much more than skeletons. Photo: National Museum of Natural History
3. Museums educate the public. Photo: National Museum of Natural History
The public also educates the public.
People educate museums.
People access museum data.
People visualize museum data. Image: Florian Krautli
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 ). Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums.
How is the use (and usefulness) of museums impacted in the digital age? Photo: Tom Atkian 1. as places/spaces? 2. as object repositories? 3. as educational institutions?