Professional paper
EXHIBITIONS OF ZAGREB CITY MUSEUM ON THE INTERNET SINCE 1909
Maja Šojat-Bikić
; Muzej grada Zagreba
Abstract
Collections and exhibitions constitute the core museum
activity and accordingly the core of a museum web site. One
of the primary tasks of a museum web site is to attract visitors
to the museum. Thus most museum web sites contain
information about current and future exhibitions, much less
often about all the exhibitions held since the founding of the
museum. Usually in occasional museum publications or on
the occasion of important anniversaries, a list is given of
exhibitions held, with the basic data - title of the exhibition
and time and place it was held. Such commemorative printed
matters are fixed on paper and restricted in their volume and
record, along with the most basic information, just the exhibitions
held in some period of time. One does not know however
what kind of exhibition it was about, who created and
who organised it. The only solution is the Internet. An online
archive of museum exhibitions can grow without constraints,
can be continually supplemented and corrected.
In research into online archives of museum exhibitions a lot
can be found out about the exhibition policy of the institution.
Since museum exhibitions are artefacts of a time, their
themes and designs reflect the social, political and economic
context in which they appeared. It is also possible to acquire
knowledge about the degree to which museums cooperate in
common exhibition projects – collaboration with other museums,
archives, libraries, culture centres, associations, individuals
and so on. One of the most demanding segments of the
web site of Zagreb City Museum (www.mgz.hr) was just the
online archive of exhibitions. It involved extensive research
work and the collection of different sources of information
about exhibitions that have been held, starting from the first –
the Trenk, as it was called – put on in 1909 in the tower above
Kamenita vrata, to recent exhibitions in 2014. Of course, the
online exhibitions archive will continue to be supplemented,
and will never be finished, the fate of all web sites the objective
of which is to stay alive and to attract old and new users
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Publication date:
3.2.2015.
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