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21st Century Curation
Disruptive technologies:
Are museums immune?www.suzannekeene.info
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Disruptive technologies?
They are radically different from existing technologies.
Initially perform worse by some measures than existing dominant ones.
Appeal to a market sector that’s not important and not served profitably by established technologies.
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Notable examplesMusic downloads and file sharing vs. compact
discs
e-publishing vs. physical publications
e-commerce vs. physical shops
Open-source software vs. proprietary software
(Linux)
Digital photography vs. conventional
photography
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Museums - what disruption?
Nature of collections and their
management
Collect the intangible heritage
Demand to contribute and share (W2)
Disclose what’s in the collections
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Disruption – 3 sources
Expectations and costs
Collecting
Demand for greater collections access and use
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Expectations and costs
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Melbourne Museum ethnography collections
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Collections in two museums
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Does it matter?
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Archaeology
Natural history Science + industry
Local history
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Does it matter?
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1001 kinds of collection
the aestheticfunctional objectsarchives for researchplaces & people collections
intangible heritage
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1001 collections, 1001 uses ...
Research
Learning
Memory + identity
Creativity
Enjoyment
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21st Century Curation for museums?
Guardians of collections >>> facilitators of engagement with them
Storing static collections
>>> collections as a service (but ... for the future, too)
Different and separate from other institutions
>>> some of the players in a networks for research, learning, creativity, enjoyment and leisure – in which others take the lead
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‘The museum needs to be turned inside
out – the back rooms put on
exhibition and the displays put into
storage.’ Mark Dion,
installation artist
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