1. Museums in the Digital Age Photo: Victoria Pickering

2. 1. Museums are places. Photo: art around

3. 2. Museums collect and display objects. Photo: Orbital Joe

4. 3. Museums educate the public. Photo: European Council President

5. —John Cotton Dana The New Museum, no. 1 (1917) The worth of a museum is in its use.

6. How is the use (and usefulness) of museums impacted in the digital age? Photo: Aaron Garza

7. 1. Museums are places. Photo: Brett Davis

8. Visitors come to museum places. Photo: Olli Thomson

9. Visitors come through the Web. Photo: Design Museum

10. Visitors come to explore. Photo: CPNAS

11. Visitors visit virtually. Photo: Google Art Project

12. Visitors visit via robots. Photo: Seattle Art Museum

13. Museums are places.

14. Museums are everywhere. Museums are places.

15. Museums are everywhere. Visitors are everywhere.

16. 2. Museums collect and display objects. Photo: NCinDC

17. Museums collect ideas and intangibles. Photo: takomabibelot

18. Museums collect ideas and intangibles.

20. Museum visitors view objects. Photo: Karen Neoh

21. Museum visitors make objects. Photo: Hirshhorn ArtLab+

22. Museum makers hack objects. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art

23. Objects are unique, physical things. Photo: National Museum of American History

24. Objects are 3D data that can be printed by anyone.

25. Objects can be skeletons. Photo: National Museum of Natural History

26. Digital objects can be much more than skeletons. Photo: National Museum of Natural History

27. 3. Museums educate the public. Photo: National Museum of Natural History

28. The public also educates the public.

29. People educate museums.

30. People access museum data.

31. People visualize museum data. Image: Florian Krautli

32. People use museum data.

33. People add their data to museums.

34. People collaborate and learn together with museums.

35. 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.

36. 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?