Cultural Heritage Museums Research Articles

Co-creating visitor experiences in cultural heritage museums: the avenue towards sustainable tourism development

Even though value co-creation is an important premise for cultural tourism destinations, such as museums, pertaining to its contribution to the cultural tourism experience is scan. The present study addresses the increasing calls for conceptualising the process of value co-creation in the field of cultural tourism. A qualitative approach is utilised, exploring the perspective of professionals (i.e., policy makers and museum managers/employees) and visitors/tourists. Results support the C-D logic of value co-creation, which explains how visitors construct their value perceptions via their own sense making process of the provided resources/activities. Drivers such as visitors predispositions, knowledge and informational attributes, educational/interpretation methods, and environmental variables, emerged as significant factors for the co-created experience. Additionally, co-creation can help destinations sustainability; it can provide holistic experiences, satisfying both visitors and tourism industry, while incorporating/benefiting local communities and the destinations environment. Museums need to utilise co-creation to codesign, co-produce, and co-disseminate memorable experiences.

Pembelajaran Sejarah di SMK era revolusi industri 4.0: tantangan dan peluang

Vocational High Schools (VHS) are currently facing challenges in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, this is responded by the government by issuing one of the regulations, namely Peraturan Dirjen Dikdasmen No. 07/D.D5/KK/2018 which changes the curriculum structure in VHS. One of the subjects affected is Sejarah Indonesia which currently only gets 3 hours in class X. Though history is important to learn for show its identity as a nation. The purpose of this study is to examine the challenges and opportunities that faced on history learning in VHS at the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, so that the application of history learning becomes effective and efficient. This study uses qualitative method by conducting interviews with four teachers and documents study about regulations of curriculum and reviewing other studies. The results found that teachers can use technology in learning, such as Whatsapp, Instagram, Edmodo, Prezi, documentary films, and visit local cultural heritage sites and museums as a media and source of history learning, so that can also be delivered effectively and efficiently. Finally, the goal of history learning to show its identity as a nation and also the integration of Indonesian nation can remain in the midst at the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0. DOI: 10.17977/um022v4i22019p059

St. George and the Dragon: Design and Production of a Cultural Heritage Museum Installation Using Media Archaeology

October 01 2019 St. George and the Dragon: Design and Production of a Cultural Heritage Museum Installation Using Media Archaeology Mercedes Said Mercedes Said Mercedes Said: mercedes@said.design. MA Thesis, Aalto University, 2018. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mercedes Said Mercedes Said: mercedes@said.design. MA Thesis, Aalto University, 2018. Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2019 ISAST2019ISAST Leonardo (2019) 52 (5): 506. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01808 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Search Site Citation Mercedes Said; St. George and the Dragon: Design and Production of a Cultural Heritage Museum Installation Using Media Archaeology. Leonardo 2019; 52 (5): 506. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01808 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsLeonardo Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. ©2019 ISAST2019ISAST Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Can I touch this? Using Natural Interaction in a Museum Augmented Reality System

A general problem in museums is the limited accessibility to artifacts by museum visitors, due to their fragile nature, their uniqueness, or just the lack of physical space for exhibiting the objects. Moreover, only in extreme cases, visitors are allowed to touch the exhibits. Our work integrates Natural Interaction and Augmented Reality applied in a cultural heritage museum, to overcome the problems of inaccessibility and non-interaction with the museum artifacts. We use off the shelf digital components to provide a novel approach of interacting with 3D replicas of museum objects. Users are able to easily interact with digital content in a virtual environment mimicking physical environments. We evaluated the visitors’ experience using our system and report on its acceptance.

Personal Curation in a Museum

An established body of work in CSCW and related communities studies social and cooperative interaction in museums and cultural heritage sites. A separate and growing body of research in these same communities is developing ways to understand the design and use of social media from a curating perspective. A curating perspective focuses on how social media is designed and used by people to develop and manage their own digital archives. This paper uses a cultural heritage museum as the empirical basis and setting along with new information visualization methods we have developed to better integrate these bodies of work and introduce the concept of personal curation; a socio-technical practice in which people collect, edit, and share information using personal information devices and social media as they move through physical environments rich with meaning potential. In doing so this paper makes three contributions. First, it illustrates how to combine a spatial focus on people's movement and interaction through the physical environment with an analysis of social media use in order to gain a deeper understanding of practices such as personal curation. Second, it shows in greater detail how visitors to museums and cultural heritage sites use and link digital information with physical information to shape others' understandings of cultural heritage. Third, it suggests how museums and cultural heritage sites may leverage personal curation to support more expansive learning opportunities for visitors.

Post-multicultural challenges for cultural heritage managers and museums in the age of migrations

ABSTRACTThe crisis of multiculturalism is commonly associated with the intensification of international migrations and their consequences in the host countries. The relevance of this work – supported by exploratory research based on the implementation of multiple methods – is the proposal of an alternative to the current Western discourse on the phenomenon of international migrations and its political and sociocultural long-term impact. In this context, culture is an essential element to spread the values of tolerance, dialogue and mutual understanding. The role of culture and cultural heritage is thus emphasised not only within the process of integration of refugees and asylum seekers, but also as measure to overcome the identity crisis occurring in Western countries, which in turn we believe to be among the main causes of the crisis of multiculturalism. In this context, cultural heritage managers’ new responsibilities are complex: on the one hand, to boost public participation in enhancing local heritage, on the other, to support migrants’ cultures and the promotion of intercultural competencies within society.

Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum in The Heart Of Turkey

Topluluklarin, gruplarin ve hatta bireylerin kulturel mirasinin bir parcasi olarak tanimladiklari uygulamalar, temsiller, anlatilar, bilgi, beceri ve tum bunlarla ilgili arac gerecler ve kulturel mekanlar olarak tanimlanan Somut Olmayan Kulturel Miras, kusaksal anlatilar, sanatlar ve gelenekler gibi yollarla aktarilir. Arastirma kapsaminda, listelenen degerlerin tanitim, koruma ve aktarim yollarinin incelenmesi amaclanmistir. Bu amaca ulasmak icin Ankara'da Somut Olmayan Kulturel Miras Muzesi arastirma alani olarak secilmistir. Bu arastirmada, UNESCO listesinde yer alan ve Ankara'nin Somut Olmayan Kulturel Miras unsurlarini kapsayan Turkiye'nin Somut Olmayan Kulturel Mirasi’nin, muzede sunulan hizmetler ve faaliyetler kapsaminda tanitim ve aktarim ozellikleri aciklanmistir. Ilk olarak, Somut Olmayan Kulturel Miras unsurlarinin listesi olusturuldu, olusturulan liste muze mudurune sunuldu ve hangi unsurlarin muzede sergilenecegi konusunda bir secim yapmasi saglanmistir. Elde edilen veriler isiginda, muzede sergilenen Somut Olmayan Kulturel Miras, muzenin idareciler tarafindan belirlenen hedef ve amaclarina ulasma becerisi hakkinda detayli bilgi almak icin muzenin kuruculari ile derinlemesine gorusmeler gerceklestirilmistir.

The Tulul Al-Baqarat and Eduu Projects : Archaeological Research , Education and Cultural Heritage Enhancement

يعنى هذا البحث بالأنشطة البحثية التي تتم في إطار مشروع ممول من الاتحاد الأوروبي المسمى " "EDUUتعزيز التراث الثقافي والتربوي من أجل التماسك الاجتماعي في العراق ، علماً إن هذا المشروعEDUU هو مشروع دولي يموله الاتحاد الأوروبي. يتكون EDUU من الشراكة بين الاتحاد الأوروبي والعراق في مجال التعليم وتعزيز التراث الثقافي ، من أجل ربط الجامعات والمدارس الثانوية والمتاحف مع نظائرها. يعمل هذا المشروع على هدف تعزيز التعددية في المجتمع المدني العراقي ، وزيادة الوعي حول ماضي العراق المتنوع والمتعدد الثقافات من خلال تطوير مبادرات لتعزيز التراث الثقافي ما قبل الاسلام .

Developing & using interaction geography in a museum

There are many approaches that support studies of learning in relation to the physical environment, people’s interaction with one another, or people’s movement. However, what these approaches achieve in granularity of description, they tend to lose in synthesis and integration, and to date, there are not effective methods and concepts to study learning in relation to all of these dimensions simultaneously. This paper outlines our development and use of a new approach to describing, representing, and interpreting people’s interaction as they move within and across physical environments. We call this approach interaction geography. It provides a more integrative and multi-scalar way to characterize people’s interaction and movement in relation to the physical environment and is particularly relevant to learning research and professional design practice in informal learning settings. The first part of this paper illustrates our development and use of interaction geography to study visitor engagement in a cultural heritage museum. In particular, we illustrate Mondrian Transcription, a method to map people’s movement and conversation over space and time, and the Interaction Geography Slicer (IGS), a dynamic visualization tool that supports new forms of interaction and multi-modal analysis. The second part of the paper describes one team of museum educators, curators, archivists, and exhibit designers using a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment based on interaction geography. We show how this environment used interaction geography to disrupt the conventional views of visitor engagement and learning that museum professionals hold and then reframe these disruptions to enable museum professionals to perceive visitor engagement and learning in innovative ways that potentially support their future design decisions. We conclude the paper by discussing how this work may serve as a blueprint to guide future efforts to expand interaction geography in ways that explore new collaborations across the fields of education, information visualization, architecture, and the arts.

Using 3D Printing to Enhance Understanding and Engagement with Young Audiences: Lessons from Workshops in a Museum

AbstractThis paper details findings from a collaborative research project that studied children learning to 3D print in a museum, and provides an overview of the study design to improve related future programs. We assessed young visitors’ capacity to grasp the technical specificities of 3D printing, as well as their engagement with the cultural history of shoemaking through the museum's collection. Combining the museum's existing pedagogical resources with hands‐on technology experiences designed by Semaphore researchers, this study enabled both researchers and museum education staff to evaluate the use of 3D‐driven curriculum and engagement materials designed for children visiting cultural heritage museums. This study raises critical questions regarding the practicality of deploying 3D media to engage young learners in museums, and this paper illuminates the challenges in developing models for children to put historical and contextual information into practice.

Cyborgian entanglements: post-human feminism, diffraction and the science exhibition Bundled-up in Blue

ABSTRACTThis article articulates a post-human feminist museology within cultural heritage museums. It focuses on the entwined intra-actions of museum artifacts, traditional exhibition forms and technologies, and considers how sex/gender is enmeshed in entanglements of meaning and matter. Its aim is twofold: to introduce insights from scholars working within feminist studies of technoscience into museological theorisations, and to put such articulations to work through a case study of an exhibition at The National Museum of Iceland. Through Barad’s theorisations of agential realism and Haraway’s articulations of the cyborg, the article contributes to a diffractive mapping of intra-active cyborgian entanglements that make different possibilities possible and elucidates how materialities, discourses, technologies and nature come into being through ways that are always open-ended and uncertain.

Investigating islands' visitor experiences in cultural heritage museums: the case of Cyprus

The consumption of the tourist product relates to a series of visitor experiences that shape overall visitor evaluation. Such experiences pertain to how visitors sense, relate and act when consuming these products. Museums, safeguarding cultural heritage, contribute significantly to this experience by providing exclusive insights and interaction with (in) authentic exhibits of many areas, such as islands. Nonetheless, in many islands, museums have not been fully developed as destination features and thus, significant opportunities to utilise museums' visitor experience to enrich the tourist offering, are lost. In this respect, the paper examines the experiences of tourists with cultural museums in the island of Cyprus, from the policy makers and museums' managers' perspective. Specifically, through face to face interviews with 13 representatives of tourism policy/museums, the study indicates that the role of museums is important for the formation of visitor/tourist experiences while certain elements appeal to visitors' engagement in museum settings. The paper concludes that museums could provide holistic memorable experience that can help actively diversify the tourism products of islands. In this respect, emphasis must be given upon how experiences are created having in mind also that visitors are increasingly becoming value co-creators in this experience.

Investigating islands' visitor experiences in cultural heritage museums: the case of Cyprus

The consumption of the tourist product relates to a series of visitor experiences that shape overall visitor evaluation. Such experiences pertain to how visitors sense, relate and act when consuming these products. Museums, safeguarding cultural heritage, contribute significantly to this experience by providing exclusive insights and interaction with (in) authentic exhibits of many areas, such as islands. Nonetheless, in many islands, museums have not been fully developed as destination features and thus, significant opportunities to utilise museums' visitor experience to enrich the tourist offering, are lost. In this respect, the paper examines the experiences of tourists with cultural museums in the island of Cyprus, from the policy makers and museums' managers' perspective. Specifically, through face to face interviews with 13 representatives of tourism policy/museums, the study indicates that the role of museums is important for the formation of visitor/tourist experiences while certain elements appeal to visitors' engagement in museum settings. The paper concludes that museums could provide holistic memorable experience that can help actively diversify the tourism products of islands. In this respect, emphasis must be given upon how experiences are created having in mind also that visitors are increasingly becoming value co-creators in this experience.

Field Trip to a Historic House Museum with Preschoolers: Stories and Crafts as Tools for Cultural Heritage Education

ABSTRACTCultural heritage education promotes children's interest in society, especially their immediate surroundings and history. Traditionally in Finland, history is learned through visits to local historic house and city museums, where the learners' role might be quite passive and their only activity a worksheet. However, evidence indicates that visits and educational information are better enjoyed and remembered when they involve activities and children can analyze the experience through interactions and continued learning at school. We examined a preschool field trip to a local historic house museum with arts-based activities continued at school. We evaluated 14 students' follow-up stories and craft products as cultural heritage education and museum pedagogical tools. A detailed qualitative analysis showed that follow-up stories function similarly to worksheets; they were easy to implement and effectively collected information on children's experiences during museum visits. However, writing stories allowed children to freely express their thoughts and experiences. Craft products provided a cognitive strategy for reflecting on field trips. It seems that the field trip to the historic museum acquired meaning through active interpretation by children and through combining the experiences and the information, which became real in the follow-up stories and craft products.

Museums and Feminist Matters: Considerations of a Feminist Museology

This article speaks to a post-human feminist museology. It argues that considerations of a feminist museology would benefit from engaging with post-human feminist dialogues currently unfolding within academia. Dynamic political landscapes and global circumstances challenge dualist paradigms. Theorizations of museums are not exempt from these challenges. Critiques of androcentricity indicate that feminist theorizations have never fully centred on “the human”, but always already contextualized how we affect the world, and how the world affects us. Discussions in this article follow Barad’s agential-realist theorization of the material-discursive practices that shape our understandings in and of the world, and Haraway’s notion of diffraction that engages the material and re-tools recordings of object histories as entangled human and non-human processes that can be taken apart and reassembled, making different possibilities possible. The article demonstrates that museological alternatives that emerge from conversations about entanglements not only aim to move beyond the paradigms they have been circling within for so long, but towards a re-thinking of museology and cultural heritage museums. Thus, considerations of a feminist post-human museology re-imagine museums as entangled becomings that make different possibilities possible.

STEAM Power: Integrating Art and Technology through Cultural Heritage Museum Partnerships

There is increasing recognition of the importance of multi-modal thinking approaches, linking creative arts with technology, in order to generate learning strategies appropriate for transitional twenty-first century societies. This interdisciplinary focus, internationally designated STEAM (science, technology engineering, arts, mathematics), has generated exciting outcomes in the fields of arts, technology, and education and forms a key curriculum hub within the teacher education programme for specialist art and design teachers at Bath Spa University (BSU), United Kingdom. BSU’s STEAM Power integrates technology with art through cultural heritage partnerships, linking educational and museum-based contexts to generate qualitative interdisciplinary action research projects and empirically exploring heritage and culture with diverse participants through creative media and techniques.

Cultivating Connectivity: Folklife and Inclusive Excellence in Museums

AbstractToday there is a growing global awareness of the need to address issues related to the safeguarding and use of both tangible and intangible heritage. By engaging with communities in the documentation of local cultures—especially their folklife, or in other words, their traditional intangible cultural heritage—museums can create collections that will serve as foundations for museum research, exhibitions, and programs that have more resonance with and relevance for those communities. Interactions of these kinds—in particular those of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Michigan State University Museum, home of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program, as well as collaborations between the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Great Lakes Folk Festival, and other programs around the world—have served as important platforms for public discourse about a variety of issues and have produced programs and exhibitions both at home and around the world.

Understanding children's engagement with interpretation at a cultural heritage museum

This study aims to investigate how, and the extent to which, different interpretation techniques (e.g. visual, verbal and interactive) at a cultural heritage museum affect children's behaviour, associated with their engagement with interpretive materials and their understanding of the content and its key ideas and messages presented as cultural lessons. An exploratory study with classes of primary-school-aged children, adopting a qualitative method including observation and post-visit in-depth interviews, was carried out. The results did not indicate any discernible difference between the types of interpretation technique used, with regard to their interaction with the site, or their understanding of the museum's content. Rather, it is the circumstances under which the interpretation techniques were used by the children. Two main variations in the way that the children interacted with their peers and the interpretation were found to affect the level of understanding of different stories, and female and male children showed generalised preferences for different forms of behaviour. How these behavioural patterns impacted on their understanding of the interpretation and meanings of the displayed objects at the museum is discussed.

Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospects

<p>The paper discusses two uses of 3D Visualization and Virtual Reality (hereafter VR) of Cultural Heritage (CH) assets: a less used one, in the archaeological / historical research and a more frequent one, as a communication medium in CH museums. While technological effort has been mainly invested in improving the “accuracy” of VR (determined as how truthfully it reproduces the “CH reality”), issues related to scientific requirements, (data transparency, separation between “real” and “virtual”, etc.), are largely neglected, or at least not directly related to the 3D outcome, which may explain why, after more than twenty years of producing VR models, they are still rarely used in the archaeological research. The paper will present a proposal for developing VR tools as such as to be meaningful CH research tools as well as a methodology for designing VR outcomes to be used as a communication medium in CH museums.</p>

The Global Village of Heritage: the contribution of the Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT)

(2005). The Global Village of Heritage: the contribution of the Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) Museum International: Vol. 57, No. 1-2, pp. 73-78.