Through several years of second year and capstone projects, we have had some excellent projects implemented for local museums. Museums worldwide are dealing with issues such as huge volumes of data, the dichotomy of needing to protect and store artefacts while making them available for the public, a strong educational focus and a shortfall in funding. Information technology solutions can solve ...

the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...

Research and teaching in the university would benefit if high-quality museum images and associated information could be made available over campus networks for educational purposes. For this to be possible, however, museums and educational institutions need to define a common framework for information collection, distribution, and use, that respects intellectual property rights. The Museum Educ...

The current paper describes an approach to designing and implementing a virtual environment comprising ten different museums. The number of museums as well as the variety of their exhibits lead to the adoption of a generalised strategy that catered for all museum presentation needs and allowed for future expansion. Furthermore, the system architecture supports the delivery of multimedia content...

Personnel is a strategic factor in the successful operation of museums. The harsh social and economic constraints challenging the cultural sector today amplify the importance of personnel management. However, the field of personnel in museums has received little notice as yet and has played a subordinate role in the discussion of museum management. This paper examines possible reasons for the n...

Tagging has proven attractive to art museums as a means of enhancing the indexing of online collections. This paper examines the state of the art in tagging within museums and introduces the steve.museum research project, and its study of tagging behaviour and the relationship of the resulting folksonomy to professionally created museum documentation. A variety of research questions are propose...

At one of the first conferences devoted to museums and education, the late Frank Oppenheimer, who "invented," founded, and directed the Exploratorium in San Francisco, is quoted as saying, in the course of his comments on the educational role of museums, that 'The. . . thing that both art and science have in common. . .or one of the things. . .is that they are both increasingly concerned with t...