Digital Transition Strategies and Training Programs for Digital Curation of Museum

Abstract

Abstract. Small and medium-sized museums have been particularly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as they often have limited resources and staff to manage the challenges posed by the pandemic. In order for them to survive during the pandemic but also embracing the extensive use of technology in our everyday lives, museums have to adapt to this new reality. The aim of the Museum-Next project is to provide small and medium-sized museums with a new generation of specialised EU professionals working in the Cultural Heritage sector, equipped with a recognised, cross-cutting and high-level digital skillset: the Digital Curators. In the digital age, museum digital curators play a critical role in preserving, organising, and presenting museum collections online. As part of the project, our research performed a desk analysis on the state of the art on museum digital transition strategies and museum digital curator training programs already implemented at EU scale in order to map good practices and tools already existing so as to highlight the current situation and the gaps that may appear in the topic.

Art in circulation: Creating content and context for digital reproduction of artworks

“…As the Mauritshuis website shows, it does not consist of a curator composing an online exhibition in a separated virtual exhibition space; it is a way of thinking and organizing, selecting and composing, making narratives and producing new perspectives, using digital tools and resources. At the same time, there is no definition of the practice, nor a distinct profile of a digital curator, which changes depending on the context (Nespeca et al., 2023; Post, 2021; Sabharwal, 2021). The practice also grows with the development of technology.…”