Museums and Digital Technologies: To what extent can digitization of museum collections help access, promote, and preserve cultural heritage?: Case studies on Mauritshuis and Kunstmuseum, The Hague

The thesis explores how digitisation of museum collections in Mauritshuis museum and Kunstmuseum Den Haag has helped make collections more accessible, promoted online and preserved for future generations. The first chapter explores how the digitisation of collection has materialised and how the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the ways museums can provide access and promote cultural heritage. The second chapter dives into each criteria – accessibility, promotion and preservation, exploring benefits and limits of connecting with the audience through the web. The third chapter goes into comparison between approaches and visual access of the digitised collections in the Mauritshuis and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Through the comparison, the paper highlights that the Mauritshuis museum has a significant advantage in the 360 Gigapixel museum that allows the visitors to enter the 3D model of the museum through a devise, while as the Kunstmuseum is still in the process of digitising its vast...Show moreThe thesis explores how digitisation of museum collections in Mauritshuis museum and Kunstmuseum Den Haag has helped make collections more accessible, promoted online and preserved for future generations. The first chapter explores how the digitisation of collection has materialised and how the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the ways museums can provide access and promote cultural heritage. The second chapter dives into each criteria – accessibility, promotion and preservation, exploring benefits and limits of connecting with the audience through the web. The third chapter goes into comparison between approaches and visual access of the digitised collections in the Mauritshuis and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Through the comparison, the paper highlights that the Mauritshuis museum has a significant advantage in the 360 Gigapixel museum that allows the visitors to enter the 3D model of the museum through a devise, while as the Kunstmuseum is still in the process of digitising its vast collection and puts greater emphasis on the preservation, by digitising their exhibitions as well.Show less

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Museums and Digital Technologies: To what extent can digitization of museum collections help access, promote, and preserve cultural heritage? Case studies on Mauritshuis and Kunstmuseum, The Hague