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What is Virtual Museum

Chapter 17
Exploring Culture and Heritage Through Experience Tourism
Virtual museums are collections consisting of digitally recorded images, audio files, text documents, and other historical, scientific, and cultural data that can be accessed through electronic media.
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Virtual Museums in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Satisfaction Level With Visits to Virtual Museums
Funda Varnaci Uzun (Aksaray University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9957-3.ch017
Abstract
In this part of the book, the importance of virtual museums and their place in the conservation of cultural heritage and cultural heritage tourism will be emphasized. In this part, first, the concept of museum, the emergence and development of virtual museums, the importance of museums and virtual museums in the conservation and cultural heritage tourism and transfer of cultural heritage to future generations, the importance of virtual museums in terms of education will be conceptually explained. The increasing importance of virtual museums during the Covid-19 pandemic will also be mentioned by giving examples around the world. Within the context of the current study, students attending Aksaray University (Turkey) will be made to visit virtual museums of various museums around Turkey and the world. After the visit, the Virtual Museum Satisfaction Scale will be administered to the students. The data to be collected through the scale will be evaluated by using descriptive analysis and difference analyses applied in relation to different variables.
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Chapter 10
Digital Cultural Heritage
An organized collection of all digitized artifacts and information resources in a virtual environment.
Published in Chapter: Digital Cultural Heritage; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Communications, Internet of Things, and the Future of Cultural Tourism
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Chapter 16
Communication, Technology, and Digital Culture for the Conservation and Enhancement of the Architectural Heritage
It is one of the more explicit forms with which a museum tries to promote itself. It renews interest for the works of art in its inside, in a more and more competitive contest, also difficult for its establishment. In this case it comes to finding all those methodological principles that define its design.
Published in Chapter: Communication, Technology, and Digital Culture for the Conservation and Enhancement of the Architectural Heritage; From: Handbook of Research on Emerging Digital Tools for Architectural Surveying, Modeling, and Representation
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Chapter 14
Through Achille Castiglioni's Eyes: Two Immersive Virtual Experiences
It is a digital entity that shares some of the characteristics of the traditional museum, such as the accessibility, the educational purposes, etc. It aims at completing, improving, increasing the museum experience through forms of personalization, interaction and enrichment of the museum contents.
Published in Chapter: Through Achille Castiglioni's Eyes: Two Immersive Virtual Experiences; From: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education, Art, and Museums
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Chapter 189
Distributed Systems for Virtual Museums
A collection of digitally recorded images, sound files, text documents, and other data of historical, scientific, or cultural interest that are accessed through electronic media. A virtual museum does not house actual objects and therefore lacks the permanence and unique qualities of a museum in the institutional definition of the term.
Published in Chapter: Distributed Systems for Virtual Museums; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 236
Virtual Informatics Museum
Organized collection of electronic artefacts and information resources—virtually anything that can be digitized. This collection may include paintings, drawings, photographs, diagrams, graphs, recordings, video segments, newspaper articles and transcripts of interviews, numerical databases and can also host other items which can be saved on its file server. It may also offer references to relevant resources for the museum around the world.
Published in Chapter: Virtual Informatics Museum; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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