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Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World demonstrates that digital literacy, creativity, and resilience, as the COVID-19 pandemic has so vividly illustrated, are now vital components of the classroom and of the curator's toolbox.Museum studies students are increasingly asked to engage with new team dynamics and collaborative models, often relocated to the virtual world. Authored by academics, cultural heritage partners, students, and alumni, the chapters in this volume move beyond a consideration of the impact of digitisation to envision new strategies and pedagogies for fuller, more sustainable approaches to cultural literacy, exhibition, and visitor engagement. International case studies present models of collaborative practices between teams of diverse sizes and professional backgrounds. The volume demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the use of a variety of pedagogically and culturally significant hybrid and virtual models that provide innovative learning modalities to meet the needs of future generations of digital native patrons. This book offers meaningful strategies that will help academic and cultural heritage institutions engaged in museum studies to survive — and even thrive — in the face of future disasters by expanding programme accessibility beyond the physical confines of their buildings.Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World will be of interest to students and researchers engaged in the study of museums, the arts, cultural management, and education. It should also be of interest to museum practitioners around the world.

While digital tools are not new to museum management, more activities are being performed through their use in order to attract visitors, enrich the cultural experience, vary the experience context, and innovate the cultural industry. However, these tools need to be tested in order to understand the effects they have on both museum offerings and visitors. Further perspectives and insights are needed on the implementation of these digital instruments in museums. The Handbook of Research on Museum Management in the Digital Era combines theoretical efforts and empirical research to contribute to the debate on museum management in a digital context. It further observes, tracks, and assesses the ongoing changes brought on by digital solutions. Covering topics such as organizational change catalysts, sustainability of cultural heritage, and phygital experience, this book is an excellent resource for museum managers, museum curators, computer specialists, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.

Digital Access and Museums as Platforms draws on interviews with museum practitioners, along with a range of case studies from public and private institutions, in order to investigate the tensions and benefits involved in making cultural collections available using digital technologies. Taking a media and critical studies approach to the museum and raising questions about the role of privately owned search engines in facilitating museum experiences, the book questions who collects what, for whom objects are collected and what purpose these objects and collections serve. Connecting fieldwork undertaken in Australia and New Zealand with the global practices of technology companies, Wilson-Barnao brings attention to an emerging new model of digital ownership and moderation. Considering the synergising of these institutions with media systems, which are now playing a more prominent role in facilitating access to culture, the book also explores the motivations of different cultural workers for constructing the museum as a mediatised location. Digital Access and Museums as Platforms will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of museum studies, art, culture, media studies and digital humanities. Weighing in on conversations about how technologies are being incorporated into museums, the book should also be useful to practitioners working in museums and galleries around the world.

Zur Vermittlung und Kommunikation von Inhalten bedienen sich Museen heute verschiedener Medien. Das Spektrum reicht von Printmedien über Multimediaproduktionen, »Hands-on«- und Medienstationen bis zu interaktiven, software- beziehungsweise webbasierten Angeboten. Diese verändern den »Lernort Museum« und erweitern ihn in den digitalen Raum. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert aktuelle Konzepte und Technologien. Er beleuchtet wichtige Instrumente wie Websites, Online-Sammlungen, Social Media, Medienstationen, Multimediaguides und wesentliche Themen wie E-Learning, E-Publishing, Storytelling oder digitale Strategien. Dazu werden konkrete Tipps und Handlungsempfehlungen zu Konzeption, Produktion und Betrieb von Medien im Museum gegeben. Ein E-Book und ein digitales Toolkit mit stets aktualisiertem Material sowie Medien- und Anwendungsbeispielen ergänzen die Publikation.

La question des tendances en muséologie se révèle d'une grande actualité tant les changements et les mutations se bousculent depuis deux décennies dans l'univers des musées et des patrimoines. Ceux qui suivent de près l'actualité dans les médias électroniques sont à même de constater que les musées sont en voie de se métamorphoser avec la multitude de transformations qui touchent à la fois la nature des collections, l'élargissement de la notion de patrimoine muséologique, les nouveaux problèmes de conservation et les nouvelles formes de médiations. Dans la même perspective, la multiplication des politiques patrimoniales suscite des changements profonds qui n'étaient pas anticipés il y a deux décennies. Nous avons convié des chercheurs et des praticiens du Québec, du Canada, de la France et de la Belgique provenant de différentes disciplines afin de partager leurs travaux et leurs réflexions sur les grandes tendances qui transforment l'univers du monde muséal. Ces diverses tendances se structurent autour de trois grands thèmes qui soulèvent des questions :'Nouvelles muséalisations : nouvelles muséologies?','Nouveaux enjeux : nouvelles perspectives pour l'objet muséal?'et'Musée, muséologie : quel avenir?'