Publication
Transição Digital nos Museus
| Summary: | This thesis focuses on the digital transition through the use of digital twins, analysing their relationship with the museum framework and their suitability to the concept of an evolving museum, with a focus on real objects and virtual objects and how they coexist. In the context of the debate about the materiality and immateriality, this project explores the complex relationship between object and culture, emphasizing not only his physic existence, but also the symbolic representations, historical and evaluative narratives that confer to the objects an asset value. Furthermore, it analyses the dynamic between the culture consuming public and the real or digital object, which not only represents a certain culture, but also acts like a catalyzer for the collective memory and community identity (McDowell, 2008). In a world of constant and rapid change, museums must follow with these changes, and their future should involve opening to the use of technologies in their museum work.Knowing that there are spaces utilizing digitization processes to preserve collections, as well as spaces that utilise technological elements for visitor engagement, we must look on how the definition and concept of a museum gives room to these spaces.As method bibliographic references were used, along with visits to three spaces, two museums and one tourist attraction. The readings focused on definitions and concepts, such as the various definitions of museums voted on and accepted by ICOM, as well as technological concepts. The spaces visited were: Quake, in Lisbon, a space that characterizes itself as a museum but its economic activity is a tourist attraction; the Ruins of the Carmo Convent, recently studied under the European Project HERITAGE WITHIN, which created a digital twin of the ruins and 3D images of the Convent before the 1755 earthquake; and the last place is PO.RO.S Museum, which, through rooms filled with technology, tells the story of the Roman civilization in Portugal.These visits allow a new look on what can or cannot be considered a museum and how the concept of a museum can be modified to recognize other heritage spaces. |
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| Main Authors: | Fernandes, Lídia Maria de Almeida Tavares |
| Subject: | Technology Digital Twins Materiality Immateriality Museum Tecnologias Gémeos digitais Materialidade Imaterialidade Museu |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | master thesis |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade de Coimbra |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra |
| Summary: | This thesis focuses on the digital transition through the use of digital twins, analysing their relationship with the museum framework and their suitability to the concept of an evolving museum, with a focus on real objects and virtual objects and how they coexist. In the context of the debate about the materiality and immateriality, this project explores the complex relationship between object and culture, emphasizing not only his physic existence, but also the symbolic representations, historical and evaluative narratives that confer to the objects an asset value. Furthermore, it analyses the dynamic between the culture consuming public and the real or digital object, which not only represents a certain culture, but also acts like a catalyzer for the collective memory and community identity (McDowell, 2008). In a world of constant and rapid change, museums must follow with these changes, and their future should involve opening to the use of technologies in their museum work.Knowing that there are spaces utilizing digitization processes to preserve collections, as well as spaces that utilise technological elements for visitor engagement, we must look on how the definition and concept of a museum gives room to these spaces.As method bibliographic references were used, along with visits to three spaces, two museums and one tourist attraction. The readings focused on definitions and concepts, such as the various definitions of museums voted on and accepted by ICOM, as well as technological concepts. The spaces visited were: Quake, in Lisbon, a space that characterizes itself as a museum but its economic activity is a tourist attraction; the Ruins of the Carmo Convent, recently studied under the European Project HERITAGE WITHIN, which created a digital twin of the ruins and 3D images of the Convent before the 1755 earthquake; and the last place is PO.RO.S Museum, which, through rooms filled with technology, tells the story of the Roman civilization in Portugal.These visits allow a new look on what can or cannot be considered a museum and how the concept of a museum can be modified to recognize other heritage spaces. |
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