Digital Museum Transformation: From a Collection of Exhibits to a Gamut of Emotions

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Aristova U., Rolich A., Staruseva-Persheeva A., Rolich A.

Today art museum is facing the challenge of adapting it’s mechanisms of keeping and presenting the works of art to spectators belonging to the communication society. Therefore, a museum gets more and more engaged in the process of digitalization using such newer technologies as internet of things, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, bid data design etc. The aims of a museum are currently shifting from traditional keeping the art pieces and studying them to—developing a scientific networks, announcing the highlights in social media and creating platforms which present digitalized pieces online allowing a viewer to collect the information through the web, moreover, an offline visit could be guided by a specified application customized to fit the necessitates of each user. An art institution today is supposed to be flexible and democratic enough to create an engaging, immersive area for a visitor to interact with, in other words, we argue that a museum armed with newer technologies is supposed not only a to secure and present the works of art but also to incorporate these pieces into the bigger flux of information, make them visible and important to viewers, to create the conditions for a lasting dialogue. We argue that this process involves not only the technical development of a museum, but also a new approach no narration of art history.

Keywords: virtual reality, digital museum, museum, Internet of things (IoT), cultural institutions, augmented reality, Curatorship, Multisensory environment

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Digital Transformation and Global Society: 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17–19, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Springer, 2020.