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By invitation from the Committee of Museology of the ICOM (ICOFOM), the museum participated in the international symposium in the Sorbonne University dedicated to New Trends.<\/p>\n
In a changing world and one of accelerated transformation, rethinking the role of the museums and of museology<\/strong> has become a need not only to progress, but almost for survival if we want to be relevant for society. The nine axes of the symposium included Museum ethics in the 21st century, Research on audience, education and communication, the Frontiers of cybermuseology – museums in the digital era, or Participative museology. The publication of all the talks is foreseen in the digital magazine of the ICOFOM, but, meanwhile, I would like to advance some of the features that seemed most significant to me:<\/p>\n \u25a0\u00a0 The exhibition as a media<\/em><\/strong>. Daniel Jacobi, emeritus professor of the University of Avignon, highlighted the fact that the temporary exhibitions need to renew their discourse and to invite the public to return, based on the production of something that cannot be found in the museum, that is to say, new content, new research, new museography. In reference to the contemporary practices he poses some questions for debate: Can an exhibition become independent from the collections and from the museums? If an exhibition can be conceived by institutions that are not museums, can they carry them out without the collaboration of those that manage the collections, lead the research, revalue them and spread them?<\/p>\n \u25a0\u00a0 Museums and the economic crisis<\/strong>. Xavier Roig\u00e9, University of Barcelona, spoke of three stages of the crisis:<\/p>\n -financial: with closures of museums, reduction of activities, more difficult working conditions<\/p>\n -of the management model: changes in the service charter, efforts to increase the self-funding, differentiation between the museums most moved by the logic of tourism or most focused on the community<\/p>\n -conceptual: differentiated logic between conservation\/research and exhibition\/spectacle, everything can become heritage, the museums don’t have the exclusiveness of the management of the heritage<\/p>\n He concluded with an interesting concept about the evolution of heritage = conservation to heritage = value of use.<\/p>\n Auditorium and library of the Sorbonne University. Photos: Conxa Rod\u00e0<\/p><\/div>\n \u25a0\u00a0 New professions<\/strong>. Anna Leshchenko, from the University of Moscow, talked about the new professions that have appeared in recent years with the digital technologies and the growth of staff dedicated to digital tasks. For example the Department of Digital Media of the MET (Metropolitan Museum) went from 10 people in 2008 to 57 in 2013 or the State Hermitage Museum, which currently has 33.<\/p>\n \u25a0\u00a0 Reimagining the online collections<\/strong>. For me one of the most stimulating interventions that opens up new ways for a digital future was the one by Shanon T. Perich of the Smithsonian Museum and Sheila K. Hoffman of the University of Quebec. They explained the project, shortly to be set in motion, of MODD (Material Object Digital Documentation) which proposes a radical re-conception of the museum collections databases. I really liked the image of thinking of the information about an object as if it was its biography, which makes more evident the need to introduce more data into the registers and make those data available to everyone.<\/p>\n \u25a0\u00a0\u00a0Digital Trends<\/strong>. My presentation, Museum Digital Trends<\/a> is uploaded with a Creative Commons license on Slideshare. Here I summarise the 7 digital trends that I believe are more relevant:<\/p>\n – mobile everywhere and to do just about everything<\/p>\n – the user in the centre, improvement of the options of personalisation, social media, co-creation<\/p>\n – content strategy, audiovisual explosion, storytelling, immersive stories<\/p>\n – integrated management of the digital assets within the museum<\/p>\n – eLearning, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)<\/p>\n![\"Auditorium](\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/auditori-biblioteca-sorbona.jpg\")
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