Professional paper

Virtual Museum's Exhibitions on Touch Screens

Tihomir Tutek ; Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka, Rijeka

Abstract

In October 2009, when the exhibition Revolutionary 1848 in
Rijeka was being set up, the need arose for interaction with
the visitors of the exhibitions with documents that could not
be physically exhibited. The idea was that the documents
could be read and viewed without being touched or exhibited.
Virtual exhibitions in the Maritime and Historical Museum of
the Hrvatsko primorje Region in Rijeka might well be called
interactive presentations on a touch screen. This definition
might be the most accurate, since in contents the virtual
exhibition is connected with the currently set up exhibition
in the museum and often shows digital contents that we are
not capable of exhibiting in physical form. Since a virtual
exhibition can practically contain, i.e., show, several kinds
of media, a quite suitable name might even be a hypermedia
presentation, particularly if it is taken into account that virtual
exhibitions can be produced in HTML and after the set up of
the exhibition has been taken down, a virtual exhibition can
be archived on the museum’s Website.
The most essential item of this kind of presentation is that it
be interactive, i.e. the user must be able to chose the content
offered, in the order that they are interested in. By the mere
fact, the content becomes more accessible to them, more
interesting, filtering what they want and do not want to see.
Since then, ten such exhibitions have been organised, and
most of them are archived on the Website of the museum at
the URL http://ppmhp.hr/virtualne-izlozbe.

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Hrčak ID:

176860

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/176860

Publication date:

2.9.2016.

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