Call for Papers
Giorgio VERDIANI / Marco TANGANELLI
(Dipartimento di Architettura, University of Florence, Italy)
Keywords: Museum, Safeguard, Hazards, digital tools, Infrastructures
Artworks and single art masterpieces are a priceless
asset of our cultural heritage, they play a crucial role in defining and
understanding the identity of communities. In recent years the evolution of the
museum assets made a lot to guarantee a future to this patrimony and offers new
exhibition solutions. The renewal of museum often assumes the scale of a large
intervention, with monumental restructuring (like for the Pergamon Museum in
Berlin) and significant evolution for the urban area in the nearby (like for
the Getty Museum in Bilbao). Nevertheless, the collections are not always
adequately protected against possible dangers and hazards or the time effects.
Such solutions are not often implemented as a “system” in the general
infrastructure interventions, thus they should be foreseen as common and
standard approaches in any restructuring or new construction. In these last
decades, new technologies – such as the digital control, the digital survey, 3D
reconstructions, solution for protecting the building and the single artwork
from earthquake, flooding, human stupidity, etc. – have experienced great
developments even in their application to whole art collections, increasing the
monitoring activities, safety checking and their interface with communities.
In this field “new technology” means “correct use of contemporary
technologies”, and most of the time they give the condition for creating a sort
of “digital layer” overlapping the concept of museum itself: it’s our
age. So for this reason any applications of NT/CT in museums are invited: from
the state of the art of digital recording of museum objects, systems for
crowd-sourcing information on archaeological museum objects, web services
for presenting the museum object data base online by harvesting, and systems
for presenting an exhibition beyond images and associated texts on websites are
welcome, thus the real interest of this session will be gathering the
contributions that show how to preserve, understanding the potential issues,
protect and give a better chance in surviving to hazards and disasters (last
but not least the effect of time) to artworks and collections.
The proposed session wishes to collect contributions from different areas to the preservation, the enhancement, and the protection of the art goods exhibited in the Museums, defining a selection of “best practice” to be proposed as a possible implementation to Museum infrastructure interventions.
Submission
Mind the new guidelines!