Bringing the Illusion of Reality Inside Museums—A Methodological Proposal for an Advanced Museology Using Holographic Showcases

Pietroni, Eva; Ferdani, Daniele; Forlani, Massimiliano; Pagano, Alfonsina; Rufa, Claudio

doi:10.3390/informatics6010002

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“…Our proposal is based on theoretical background and practical guidelines we have evolved along more than twenty years of research and concrete experience in museum studies and virtual heritage projects (communicative media for cultural heritage, new forms of storytelling and paradigms of interaction, user experience design), supported by the results of surveys carried out on thousands of European museums visitors [2][3][4][5][6].…”

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Accessibility, Natural User Interfaces and Interactions in Museums: The IntARSI Project

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Pagano²,

Biocca³

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In a museum context, people have specific needs in terms of physical, cognitive, and social accessibility that cannot be ignored. Therefore, we need to find a way to make art and culture accessible to them through the aid of Universal Design principles, advanced technologies, and suitable interfaces and contents. Integration of such factors is a priority of the Museums General Direction of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, within the wider strategy of museum exploitation. In accordance with this issue, the IntARSi project, publicly funded, consists of a pre-evaluation and a report of technical specifications for a new concept of museology applied to the new Museum of Civilization in Rome (MuCIV). It relates to planning of multimedia, virtual, and mixed reality applications based on the concept of “augmented” and multisensory experience, innovative tangible user interfaces, and storytelling techniques. An inclusive approach is applied, taking into account the needs and attitudes of a wide audience with different ages, cultural interests, skills, and expectations, as well as cognitive and physical abilities.

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“…In the African section of the MuCIV, a holographic showcase will be set up integrated in a larger projection wall [5]. Inside the showcase, two original objects will be exhibited, a Baulé Male Statue and a Lega Mask.…”

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Accessibility, Natural User Interfaces and Interactions in Museums: The IntARSI Project

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Biocca³

et al. 2021

Heritage

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“…In order to tell the story of Mytilene Treasure, a group of precious Byzantine objects, a multidisciplinary collaboration at the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens displayed holograms inside showcases side by side with the real artefacts, creating intentionally an engaging blurring of reality, which involves the visitor into a sensory interaction with the objects. The designers achieved, with the use of holograms, their intentions to enhance the scenography and the dramaturgy of the exhibition, to engage the visitors' attention, to keep them engaged during the narration, to exacerbate their senses and enhance the memorization of the museum experience [11].…”

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EPANASTASIS-1821: Designing an Ιmmersive Virtual Museum for the Revival of Historical Events of the Greek Revolution

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Nikolopoulos

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

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Recent technological advances have greatly affected the museum practice, introducing new and innovative technological solutions for the creation of more interactive, multisensory and experiential museum exhibitions. Virtual reality applications allow museums' visitors to be fully immersed in interactive adventures and consequently, many museums are focusing their digital strategy on that direction. Meanwhile, the use of serious games technology in museum environments set new perspectives in the educational and the entertaining impact of museums' experiences. This contribution describes the principles and the guidelines that defined the digital museological design process of the Virtual Museum EPANASTASIS-1821, the development of which is based on the technologies of virtual reality and serious games. The paper indicates how the use of virtual reality and serious games in exhibition design can strengthen designers' creativity, enhance the interpretation dynamic of the exhibition and the memorization potential and lastly, create memorable museum experiences.

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“…Mixed and augmented reality solutions are recommended so to integrate real and virtual contents [25]. For instance, in Figure 3 a Byzantine original candleholder is exhibited in a holographic showcase.…”

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“…An illusion of reality, of something that does not exist but appears as if it was just in front of our eyes. Taking advantage of the available digital technologies in the current market, the challenge is to realize a new form of scenography and dramaturgy around the museum's objects, with a simple technology, compatible with the museum's preservation and maintenance needs [25]. Why holograms should be used to tell the story of an object, rather than a common 2D screen, a traditional projection or even a mobile device with a multimedia?…”

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Experience Design, Virtual Reality and Media Hybridization for the Digital Communication Inside Museums

Pietroni

2019

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Experience design, both in real and in virtual museums, is very complex to be planned, even more when digital contents are juxtaposed to real collections. Researchers in this field, curators, creatives and software developers must work together in order to evolve towards a more efficient interconnection among visitors, collections and digital applications. This paper deals with such an interconnection, providing a theoretical background and practical guidelines, on the basis of museum studies and of the author’s research experience in this domain, supported by the results of surveys carried out on European museums visitors dealing with digital technologies. Media hybridization has a long and evolving tradition and it can contribute to transmit culture in engaging way to the public, respecting the scientific plausibility of contents. The choice of narrative structures and styles, as well as of interaction paradigms and technologies, is deeply conditioned by a series of factors that will be examined in detail. A general “direction” is needed to arouse in the visitor a feeling of confidence and trust, expectation and discovery that makes him/her feel at the center of an emotional and creative experience, of a progressive appropriation of meaning. Various typologies of experiences will be discussed and compared.

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Bringing the Illusion of Reality Inside Museums—A Methodological Proposal for an Advanced Museology Using Holographic Showcases

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Accessibility, Natural User Interfaces and Interactions in Museums: The IntARSI Project

Accessibility, Natural User Interfaces and Interactions in Museums: The IntARSI Project

EPANASTASIS-1821: Designing an Ιmmersive Virtual Museum for the Revival of Historical Events of the Greek Revolution

Experience Design, Virtual Reality and Media Hybridization for the Digital Communication Inside Museums

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