museums and the uk future space suzanne keene the science museum, london

Museums and the UK future space

Suzanne Keene

The Science Museum, London

http://www.SuzanneKeene.net

Introduction

Shaping the future space Museums in the future space Conclusions

The emerging space

Political Economic Social Technical Organisational

The political space

UK government supports infosociety

The economic space

Capital investment from government ? income to sustain digital assets

The quarry (for commercial publishers)

The cooperative (AMICO, SCRAN)

Licensing (as individual picture libraries etc)

Charging (emerging e-charging mechanisms)

The social space

Internet spread UK a lead country

Access and museum users tend to have internet access

Information rich / information poor?

The technical space

Broad band not natural for museums?

Digital TV perhaps allows interaction

Integration of databases and webhighly significant in making catalogue material interesting

The organisational space

DNER

Converging content

Converging networks

DNER

The politics of funding

We will give you money …

£50m

£252m

LEARNING CENTRES

£19m

… and we want many dimensions

Academic

authority

Informationprovision

andalsoandalso

Museum dimensions Populist infotainment

Science museums Academic authority

National Maritime Museum: Journal of Maritime Research; PORT

Interactive participationScience Museum, STEM

Information provisionNatural History Museum, Earthlab Datasite

Conclusions

Permanent evolution Pressing issues: targeted funding;

permanent preservation; sustainability Changing the perspective

Interaction and participation

and the future ...

Towards the future

•All our imagination holds!

Contact detailsDr Suzanne Keene

Head of Collections Management

Science Museum, LondonExhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD

s.keene@nmsi.ac.uk

http://www.SuzanneKeene.net