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A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa
Mini Dissertation (MCHS)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/61392 A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa Du Preez, Amanda rankadi@gmail.com Mosako, Daniel Rankadi Museums and cultural studies Digital technologies in art museums Art museums Art museum technologies Information and communications technology and art UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-08 Humanities theses SDG-09 Humanities theses SDG-11 Mini Dissertation (MCHS)--University of Pretoria, 2017. This research briefly introduces the roles of art museums and presents selected digital technology implementation challenges and benefits in art museums in the Gauteng Province. An art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of work of art, usually visual art. Art museums collect objects of art and other historic artefacts that are documented and exhibited for different purposes, such as aesthetic value, social, historic cultural and educational, significance and research values that are traceable to a specific society or group of individuals. In South Africa, particularly in the Gauteng Province, art museums are failing to keep pace with international trends about the use of digital technology. It is, therefore, important for art museums as information dissemination centres to incorporate digital technology in their daily museum business as it may offer the opportunity for these museums to become more effective and competitive in the global information society. A literature review is done to understand the trends of different digital technologies in other first world international cities. The examined literature revealed that the Internet and other technological applications of the new millennium prompted a re-evaluation of cutting edge museum research, education roles, and documentation capabilities. Consequently, digital technology became an integral component of the digital policies of many art museums, allowing them to satisfy the demand for online information sharing abilities. A qualitative research approach together with a constructivism educational theory is used to fully understand South Africa’s position regarding the use of digital technology. In South Africa, digital technology usage in art museums is predominantly limited to email exchange, electronic invitations to exhibitions, data capturing of collections and viewing of basic websites. In other words, digital technologies are not optimally used in the South African art museum environment. The study explores the benefits of digital technology interfaces at art museums against fixed traditional art museum information dissemination practices. The objectives of the study are to create an awareness of best practice in the implementation of digital technology interfaces at art museums in Gauteng. The findings in this study indicate that digital technologies have proved to be useful in several spheres of public life resulting in the popular utilization of e-learning, e-mail, e-health, e-government and e-commerce. It is, therefore, proposed that art museums in South Africa embrace digital technologies to enhance the transformation of these museums. In essence, the implementation of digital technologies such as ‘virtual tours’ and other popular social media platforms and applications may raise the profile of art museums and market their contents to wider audiences, and may also help to popularise their heritage collections for leisure and scholarly purposes. Department of Arts & Culture University of Pretoria ae2026 Visual Arts MHCS Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities 2017-07-20T10:09:38Z 2017-07-20T10:09:38Z 2017-09 2017 Mini Dissertation Mosako, DR 2017, A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa, MHCS Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61392> S2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61392 en application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Museums and cultural studies Digital technologies in art museums Art museums Art museum technologies Information and communications technology and art UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-08 Humanities theses SDG-09 Humanities theses SDG-11 A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa |
| title | A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa |
| title_full | A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa |
| title_fullStr | A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa |
| title_short | A study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums - with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the Gauteng province of South Africa |
| title_sort | study to identify and evaluate the roles and challenges of modern art museums with special reference to the incorporation of digital technology in art museums in the gauteng province of south africa |
| topic | Museums and cultural studies Digital technologies in art museums Art museums Art museum technologies Information and communications technology and art UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-08 Humanities theses SDG-09 Humanities theses SDG-11 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61392 |