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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Digital Resurrection of a Silent Museum

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Voices, noises, music, are all part of the aural landscape with which we are familiar, when walking through the entrance of a museum. The pandemic has silenced most of these, and new sounds have replaced the old familiar ones, symbolising the transition from inertly suffering the consequences of the pandemic to a resilient reaction. The noise of High Definition (HD) scans, digital cameras, and strobes has slowly replaced the silence caused by absent public and empty galleries, in a collective effort to digitise as much and as quickly as possible the collections, to exploit the imposed suspension of traditional museum life. To fight the state of uncertainty, we decided to launch the ambitious project to catalogue and digitise the entire collection, a project needed for years and always previously postponed for logistical and organisational reasons. A partnership between Google Arts & Culture and the museum has allowed the museum to make accessible online new documents from the archives, create stories and presentations, translate them into English, and share them worldwide. When the museum reopens, it will benefit from being georeferenced on the Google Arts & Culture app. The lack of public has allowed the museum to use the two galleries as working space. The staff, as well as an intern, have been working on cataloguing the objects with newly acquired database software and, in parallel, a website project has started, which will become the main access point to the collections, thanks to an integrated Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). The pandemic situation has accelerated a process that was already perceived as necessary for a long time. This includes making available the collections to the public worldwide, enabling the study of woodwinds instruments and preserving, promoting, and keeping alive the memory of all people who have worked in the region of La Couture-Boussey in northern France.
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hal-04029653 , version 1 (15-03-2023)

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Emanuele Marconi. Digital Resurrection of a Silent Museum. Global Crises and Music Museums: Representing Music after the Pandemic, CIMCIM - International Committee of Museums and Collections of Instruments and Music, Sep 2021, London, United Kingdom. pp.44-49. ⟨hal-04029653⟩
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