Exciting elaborations by Johanna Drucker on how museums are digitally positioning themselves today to fulfil their mission of preserving and presenting cultural heritage.
From her perspective, it is imperative to open the collections for experiences and discoveries. The success of this depends on the navigation and orientation of the experience. A current trend is the use of tactile and interactive experiences as a means of conveying content.
It is of great importance to create experiences that are not influenced by the entertainment industry in order to offer a real opportunity for experience and learning. In this context, immersive activities and experiences will be particularly worthwhile and useful for the visitor.
According to Johanna Drucker, access to the collection is of fundamental importance. An important approach to promoting access is the application of gamification methods to facilitate and promote the use of the collections.
An important measure to maintain the integrity of the collection, in her view, is the return of originals and the provision of copies on site.
For us too, access, navigation and orientation are very central issues when it comes to easily and quickly finding content and treasures in museums, collections and archives. Especially when it comes to documents and films.
Thank you Johanna Drucker for the lecture "The Virtual Muse(um). Authenticity, Immersion, and New Forms of Delusion" at this year's online conference "The Art Museum in the Digital Age". She is a professor of bibliographic studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Would you also like to find treasures in multimedia archival materials without prior extensive deep cataloguing?