Digital Tools in the Service of Difficult Heritage: How Recent Research Can Benefit Museums and their Audiences

为困难遗产服务的数字工具：最新研究如何使博物馆及其观众受益

• 批准号: AH/N001966/1
• 负责人: Paul Cooke
• 金额: $ 10.08万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN001966%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Tools; Service; Difficult; Heritage

This proposal sets out to realize unanticipated impacts of the AHRC 'Cultural Value' project AH/L014424/1 'Experiencing the Digital World: the Cultural Value of Digital Engagement with Heritage'. We will work with the National Holocaust Centre, the Thackray Medical Museum and the Science Museum to realize the practical potential of the original project's findings on the ways in which digital tools can support the co-production of museum exhibitions and resources with diverse audiences. While this potential was uncovered during the original project, we now seek to test how this might work in practice. Our three partners, all of which were involved in the original project, are currently redeveloping their digital strategies in the light of our research findings, with the aims of broadening the demographic range of their visitors, and seeking new and better ways to engage visitors, particularly in the exploration of 'difficult' histories, challenging subjects and traumatic experiences. Our follow-on funding project will allow our partners to achieve these aims, ensuring that they realize the full impact potential of our original project in a way that could not be attained on their own. Moreover, it will also generate synergies with other areas of expertise within the academic team, not explicitly invoked in the original project, that will significantly enhance its reach in ways we had not previously envisaged. The National Holocaust Centre is currently focused on working with ethnically-diverse groups of primary-school children to explore the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary debates on social discrimination and prejudice. The Thackray Medical Museum is developing a new exhibition on childbirth and its attendant risks, which it wishes to be informed by the experience of its visitors. The Science Museum is looking to work with disabilities support groups on an exhibition about the impact of the First World War on our understanding of disability and mental illness. We will work with each museum to exploit the potential of digital engagement to co-produce an online exhibition and supporting digital materials with appropriate community groups that the museums are seeking to reach, while also providing an opportunity for each to learn from the experience of the other museums involved in the project. These cases can provide valuable insight into how digital technologies can transform our engagement with heritage: lessons which can prove useful for other museums, galleries and heritage organisations seeking to open their curatorial strategy to new approaches, ideas and experiences.

该提案旨在实现 AHRC“文化价值”项目 AH/L014424/1“体验数字世界：数字遗产参与的文化价值”的意想不到的影响。我们将与国家大屠杀中心、萨克雷医学博物馆和科学博物馆合作，实现原始项目研究结果的实际潜力，即数字工具如何支持与不同观众共同制作博物馆展览和资源。虽然这种潜力是在最初的项目中发现的，但我们现在试图测试它在实践中如何发挥作用。我们的三个合作伙伴都参与了最初的项目，目前正在根据我们的研究结果重新制定他们的数字策略，目的是扩大访客的人口范围，并寻求新的更好的方式来吸引访客，特别是在探索“困难”历史、具有挑战性的主题和创伤经历方面。我们的后续资助项目将使我们的合作伙伴能够实现这些目标，确保他们以自己无法实现的方式充分发挥我们原始项目的影响潜力。此外，它还将与学术团队内其他专业领域产生协同效应，而这些领域在原始项目中没有明确引用，这将以我们之前未曾设想过的方式显着增强其影响力。国家大屠杀中心目前致力于与不同种族的小学生群体合作，在当代关于社会歧视和偏见的辩论中探索大屠杀的遗产。萨克雷医学博物馆正在开发一个关于分娩及其随之而来的风险的新展览，希望通过参观者的经历来了解这一展览。科学博物馆正在寻求与残疾人支持团体合作举办一个展览，展示第一次世界大战对我们对残疾和精神疾病的理解的影响。我们将与每个博物馆合作，利用数字参与的潜力，共同制作在线展览，并与博物馆寻求接触的适当社区团体一起支持数字材料，同时也为每个博物馆提供学习参与该项目的其他博物馆经验的机会。这些案例可以为数字技术如何改变我们与遗产的互动提供宝贵的见解：这些经验教训对于其他博物馆、画廊和遗产组织来说是有用的，这些组织寻求向新的方法、想法和体验开放其策展策略。