Museums in a Digital Culture

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This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new ways of engaging with art and history possible. The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like: How should we theorise the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage?

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Introduction, Touched from a Distance, Visual Touch, Breathing Art, Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives, Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums, Between History and Commemoration, From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to 'Inuvialuit Living History', Conclusion, Notes on Contributors, Index