Transcending and expanding the walls of the museum

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter discusses how digital technology, methods, theory, and practice could transcend the physical limitations of museum and archaeological spaces. This chapter will consider how the digital realm, including social media and multimedia, can bring to life the collections and narratives for audiences on and off site. It will not be exhaustive as the panoply of digital experiences is beyond the space and scope of this handbook. What it does highlight is how low-cost, reproducible technology could be used to enable multi-vocality, democratic co-creative tools and platforms, immersive experiences, and new ways of working which can transcend the digital divide and be available to institutions of varying levels of digital maturity. One of the major challenges in presenting such initiatives is the rate of technological change and the pace of platform attrition and churn, meaning that many of the projects presented here will be superseded.