Museums of the Future

Overview

Museum collections are full of narratives, stories told about objects, sites, events, people, and places in our past. In heritage, we have been telling these stories for years, and engaging audiences in their lives. Advances in digital technology enable us to visualize, reconstruct and imagine the people and places that came before us. As we move forward, the challenge that faces us is to tell these stories in more diverse, novel, and innovative ways. Digital media has the ability to engage new, younger audiences, and allow access to heritage to those who can not engage through traditional means.

Digital content is now key to new and future audience engagement. Research has shown the relationship between universities and heritage organisations is not mutually beneficial and co-productive. Our aim at NTU is to work with the heritage sector empathetically with a bottom up approach, seeking input and ideas fro heritage sector professionals. We aim to procure funding and work co-productively towards public engagement outputs that are mutually beneficial to the heritage sector and Nottingham Trent University. We aim to act as a forum to discuss, develop and work with heritage organisations to explore how to future proof heritage preservation and engagement for the next generation.

People

Professor Mohamed Gamal Abelmonem

Project Lead Investigator (PI) -Nottingham Trent University

Professor Natalie Braber

Professor Mohamed Gamal Abelmonem

Co-Investigator (CoI) -

Durham University

Professor Chris Reynolds

Professor Mohamed Gamal Abelmonem

Professor Chris Reynolds

Co-Investigator (CoI) -

Kingston University

Dr. Diane Wren

Dr Katie Holland

Professor Chris Reynolds

Research Fellow -

Nottingham Trent University

Dr Katie Holland

Co-Investigator (CoI) -

Durham University

Status: Ongoing