Museums Today: Creating Digital Exhibitions: A Practical Guide
What makes a digital exhibition an exhibition? What makes a digital exhibition different from other exhibitions? As many museums start embracing digital presences and continue to work across physical and digital spaces, creating a digital exhibition involves more than translating content into an online format. It requires digital exhibition curators to integrate new ways of thinking about technology, curation, audience engagement, interpretation, accessibility, infrastructure and evaluation.
Drawing from their most recent edited volume Creating Digital Exhibitions: A Practical Guide, Morgan Joseph Hamilton and Zida Wang discuss the theory and practice of digital exhibition-making through perspectives from museum researchers, practitioners, educators and curators across the world. The discussion will explore how digital exhibitions can create new opportunities for participation, learning, access and engagement while addressing the practical realities of limited resources, evolving technologies and changing audience expectations.
About Morgan Joseph Hamilton
Morgan Joseph Hamilton, Ph.D., is an independent curator and adjunct professor at the University of Delaware. His research centers around equitable experiences for visitors in art museums. He curates and designs exhibitions that tap into everyday interests by incorporating interactive interpretation. He edited Artifice: Implications on Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and co-edited Creating Digital Exhibitions: A Practical Guide.
About Zida Wang
Zida Wang, Ph.D., is manager of academic and community engagement at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Wang’s research and practice focus on museum education, collaborative curation and digital exhibitions. He is co-editor of Creating Digital Exhibitions: A Practical Guide.
How to Participate
To participate, register online, and we will email you a link and instructions for joining the program on Zoom. Simply follow that link at the time the event starts (6 p.m. EDT). When you register, you can also request to receive a reminder email one day before the program with the link included.
About the Museums Today Series
Each month during the academic year, museum leaders lead lively online discussions about critical issues in the field. This series is presented in partnership with the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. Browse upcoming programs