Professional paper
ONLINE PRESENTATIONS OF THE EXHIBITIONS OF RIJEKA CITY MUSEUM
Marija Lazanja Dušević
; Muzej grada Rijeke
Abstract
The number of Internet users in the world is rising rapidly,
and in the last year it was recorded that 34.3% of the world’s
population used the Internet. The new technological age has
resulted in a sublimation of media, the Internet and telecommunications.
The current development of information design
is tending towards a state in which an online presentation
of an exhibition will soon be equivalent to one in the actual
space, and where every museum exhibition will have to be put
online with just as much design creativity and thought as the
original exhibition in the space.
The Web site of Rijeka Municipal Museum was formed in
2004, when it was realised that it was important to present
attractive museum material and exhibitions to Internet users.
In the Museum, during the last few years, a number of large
projects have been implemented, that, backing up the visual
exhibition, have comprised numerous workshops lectures,
historical presentations, roundtables and promotions of
books. Since the Museum does not have, nor will it in the near
future, a permanent display, the exhibitions that were organised
in the last few years were very attractive and interesting
to museum users, and hence the need was seen for a longerlasting
presentation of the exhibitions on the Net.
The advantages are diverse, including the promotion of the
museum through its exhibition and publishing activities,
simpler availability of information, exhibition longevity, and
the presentation of the documentary activity. The strategy of
Internet presentation was not restricted to showing exhibitions
online, presenting them by simply putting them on the
site. Instead, the designer was given the conceptual task of
devising and creating a special part of the site to match the
actual design of the original exhibition, and of involving multimedia
extras like a photo gallery and films of the original
exhibitions and making them an integral part of the site.
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Hrčak ID:
174264
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Publication date:
3.2.2015.
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