Museums in the Digital Age

Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture

Susana Smith Bautista (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2013
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-2412-7 (ISBN)

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Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases how the use of technology in museums should be understood as factors directly related to the museums’ notion of community, local culture, and place, whether these places are in mid-America, urban metropolises, or ethnically diverse and underserved communities.

Here, museum expert Susana Smith Bautista brings more than twenty years of experience in cultural institutes in Los Angeles, New York, and Greece to propose a social understanding of why museums should be adopting technology, and how it should be adapted based on their particular missions, communities, and places. This book is timely because we are in the midst of the digital age, which is rapidly changing due to rapidly changing developments in technology and society as well, with social adaptations of technology. Theory is always racing to catch up with practice in the digital age, but theory remains a critical - and often neglected - component to accompany the practical application of technology in museums.

In order to illustrate these points, the book presents five case studies of the most technologically advanced art museums in the United States today:

The Indianapolis Museum of ArtThe Walker Art CenterThe San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern ArtThe Brooklyn Museum
Each case study ends with a Lessons Learned section to bring these points home.

While the case studies focus on museums in the United States, and also on art museums, this book is relevant to all types of museums and to museums all over the world, as they equally face the challenge of incorporating technology into their institutions. Although these case studies are all well-established and well-endowed museums, Bautista reveals valuable insight into the difficulties they face and the questions they are asking which are relevant to even the smallest museum or community cultural center.

Susana Smith Bautista is a multidisciplinary scholar on museums, digital technology, and the arts.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: The New Museology

Chapter Two: Framing a Changing Museology in the Digital Age
Place/ Space/ Experience
Community: To Be, or Not To Be
Culture Matters to Society
Technology and its Implications

Chapter Three: Indianapolis Museum of Art
Place + Localized Culture
The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology
Lessons Learned

Chapter Four: Walker Art Center
Place + Localized Culture
The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology
Lessons Learned

Chapter Five: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Place + Localized Culture
The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology
Lessons Learned

Chapter Six: Museum of Modern Art
Place + Localized Culture
The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology
Lessons Learned

Chapter Seven: Brooklyn Museum
Place + Localized Culture
The Museum and its Community
The Role of Digital Technology
Lessons Learned

Chapter Eight: Greater Than Five
Supporting Place, Community, and Culture in the Digital Age
Greater Than Five
Marking Place: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Chapter Nine: A Balancing Act

Conclusion

Appendices
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Interviews

Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.2014
Zusatzinfo	40 b/w photos
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 235 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-7591-2412-4 / 0759124124
ISBN-13	978-0-7591-2412-7 / 9780759124127
Zustand	Neuware