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The Public Knowledge Space of the Museum
| Title | The Public Knowledge Space of the Museum |
| Aidamount | 340.000 |
| Organization | DiaPhoni A/S |
| Conclusion | Ingen side valgt |
| Homepage | www.vidensrum.dk |
| Contact | Klaus Dahl-Jensen, Director, kdj@diaphoni.dk |
| Other participants | Museumscenter Aars/Vesthimmerlands Museum
Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum
the Bangsbo Museum and Archives |
| Theme | Art and Culture |
| Keywords | Art museums
Art schools
IKT in creative disciplines |
| Project start | 01 May 2002 |
| Project end | 30 August 2003 |
| Description | The Public Knowledge Room of the Museum
– Digital Presentation and E-learning at 3 Museums of the Region.
Louise and Camilla are twins. Aged 12, they are on the mailing list for invitations issued by the Art Museum of Vendsyssel, and they turn up at every opening of a new exhibition. But that is not enough for them.
Now they are sitting at the library with two class mates, surfing the Internet. They have been to the louvre.fr, louisiana.dk and a host of other Web sites - and of course they visit the homepage of Art Museum of Vendsyssel. Here they click their way to different pictures and installations …
Kirsten Justesen: Still from the "Back Writer" video
If the children click the still by Kirsten Justesen they will see part of the video recorded with the artist sitting naked on the inland ice writing on her back. This sequence is followed-up by short notes on the artist and more pictures rendering her fascination with ice. Here the children are enabled to pursue the various angles opened by the video clip and the work: Musically, litterary, by characteristic of paintings, scientifically.
Camilla og Louise are surfing further into the homepage of Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum - and end up on Kirsten Dufour: VenusThe sculpture can be viewed from all angles including frog eye and bird's eye views. Among other material, Venus is made out of scrap and consists of many different materials, each with a history of its own. A mouseclick on one of the materials tells the story. The children should have easy access to expand on the story and send it to the museum, - and photos of the children's own works inspired by Venus are welcomed. The site contains an exhibitional section for these items.
This could be a case story from the ’Public Knowledge Room of the Museum’ project to illustrate our bid on how to use the digital presentation of art and culture.
Museumscenter Aars / Vesthimmerlands Museum, Aars
Bangsbo Museum og Arkiv, Frederikshavn, and
Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjørring.
These three musums are intended to be on the cutting edge in the use of IT for presentation beween the museum, school, pupil and parents using the Internet. We want to break the lineary structure of presentation characterizing today's relationship between museums and schools.
Today pupils are ”press-ganged” and transported to the museum. Here the museum delivers a basic experience consisting of the existing exhibition and the static material found on the museum, maybe supplemented by a short introduction. Only on rare occasions is this lifted into a dialog or exchange of knowledge between the educational institution, the pupils and the museum.
To many pupils and educational institutions such sessions can appear as a rather predictable one-way communication. Adding to this the educational institution and the pupils/children only rarely bring their knowledge on to their remaining social contacts such as their homes, grand parents, friends and family.
We estimate that a restructured presentational session and a more progressive use of IT at the museums, the schools and in the pupils' homes could break this lineary structure of presentation. It forms the basis for the acquisition of knowledge for pupils and children of today. The primary goal of the project is to open the presentational offers of the museums and make them accessible via the Web in ”circular” presentational sessions involving both the school/institution - and not least the pupils'/children's social lives/their homes.
This can be done via a consciously focused production of educational material for use on the Web, for instance e-learning, web-exhibition modules - and maybe even sessions involving schools as well as families and a visit to a museum.
The arch stone of the project is the provision of a homogenous and easy to use basic presentational programme for the museums. The programme is developed in a collaboration between DiaPhoni A/S and the museums in a way that allows the museums to quickly and easily opdate and adjust the knowledge they offer to schools and institutions. This is to happen by means of an internet tool, which is intuitively guiding the museum professional through the process of creating the homepage – without any specialist knowledge of html and other specialized actions.
The next step for each museum is the development of a presentation material especially designed for the Web, i.e. traditional educational sessions for classes, but also chatrooms, and presentations for families / schools, Web exhibitions, interactive presentational sessions, involving family, schools and museums.
Sharing the technological development between the three museums makes it possible to develop a common platform and to keep a low total financial budget. |
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