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February 19, 2012 by claude

Week #7 seminar / When museums go digital: redefining the space of the exhibit

virtual-exhibits-virtual-museums In this week’s seminar, I will be starting my presentation by giving a brief overview of some of the different forms and functions that virtual exhibits can take, illustrating these with examples. I will also present the highlights of a paper I wrote last semester on the digital affordances used to curate a virtual […]

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February 5, 2012 by kate

Digital Cultural Heritage: access, documentation, and the intangible…

Abungu (2010) paints a picture of the contemporary museums in post-colonial Africa as working to move away from “the old style of exhibition (eg. Dusty objects hidden in glass cases)” (181), and to address the changing face of African society that museums now represent. Part of decolonization, she argues, is a move away from a […]