DocumentCode :
2395854
Title :
The use of digital media in a new urban history exhibition: STAM — Ghent city museum
Author :
De Jaegher, Lars ; De Waele, Maria ; Van Goethem, Véronique
Author_Institution :
STAM - Ghent City Museum, Ghent, Belgium
fYear :
2012
fDate :
2-5 Sept. 2012
Firstpage :
557
Lastpage :
560
Abstract :
In 2010, after a radical reconstruction of both buildings and exhibitions, STAM re-opened as a modern city museum. It makes use of digital media on a much larger scale than seen at most other city museums. The permanent exhibition tells the (hi)story of Ghent in a chronological way. This in itself traditional approach opens opportunities to add digital media without losing focus or context. The software application Views of Ghent reinforces the connection between the different rooms (and times in history). It contains maps, pictures and textual information about streets, squares and buildings in the past and present. And there is more: entire rooms covered with screens, 3D-models, multi-touch tables and digitally enriched photographs on floors and walls, next to more traditionally curated rooms. The use of digital media is part of the reason why both young and old, and both museum lovers old & new style have welcomed and embraced STAM the way they did and keep on doing. Along with STAM´s clear and genuine manner in which it tells `The story of Ghent´.
Keywords :
cartography; history; museums; screens (display); solid modelling; 3D model; Ghent view; STAM-Ghent city museum; digital media; digitally enriched photographs; maps; multitouch table; pictures; screen; textual information; urban history exhibition; Buildings; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Computers; History; Multimedia communication; Solid modeling; 3D; STAM; Views of Ghent; multimedia; museum;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 2012 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2564-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2563-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/VSMM.2012.6365976
Filename :
6365976
Link To Document :
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