DIGITAL MEMORY

DIGITAL MEMORY

• Digital tools offer new ways to remember
• Museums can be at the heart of this
• Memory matters to everyone

COLLECTING

COLLECTING

• Enable staff to collect memories
• Support local people to remember
• Create depth of knowledge through multiple viewpoints

CURATING

CURATING

• Curating knowledge and memory is key skill of museum
• In digital age, curation is now a skill everyone needs
• Museums can assist their visitors to learn how to curate

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

• Digital enables museums to shift to where people are
• This creates interaction with new communities
• Engagement: where and when people want

SKILLS

SKILLS

• Enable all staff to collect and curate memories
• Offer training to local people to act as community curators
• Professional training for museum aids staff retention

WELLBEING

WELLBEING

• Memory collection and curation matters socially
• Memory is one key to well being in old age
• Museums can partner with health providers for public benefit