Virtual Museums: Enhancing Cultural Accessibility through Technology

  • Authors

    • Ajay Krishnan Technical Lead, Tech Mahindra, India. Author
    • Dr. Hawa Mohamed Department of Information Technology, Mogadishu Digital University, Somalia. Author

    DOI:

    https://doi.org/10.67228/3071561X/IJIRHT-2018PI6W7T

    Published 03-03-2018

  • Virtual Museums, Cultural Heritage, Digital Accessibility, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Human–Computer Interaction, Digital Preservation, Smart Museums

    Issue

    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018)

    Section

    Articles

    How to Cite

    [1]
    A. Krishnan and H. Mohamed, “Virtual Museums: Enhancing Cultural Accessibility through Technology”, IJIRHT, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 01–14, Mar. 2018, doi: 10.67228/3071561X/IJIRHT-2018PI6W7T.

  • Abstract

    Virtual museums are considered to be a new transformative digital paradigm which is making cultural heritage accessible globally instead of being restricted by physical borders where artifacts, exhibitions and historical stories can be accessed all over the world. Virual museums are changing the preservation, presentation and consumption of cultural content with the development of immersive technology including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based platforms. This paper discusses virtual museums as a technologically informed approach to old barriers in cultural access, such as or geographic factors, physical impairment, economic factors and preservation threats. The paper will offer an elaborate research on the available literature, fundamental technological framework, and will suggest a systematic approach to the development and evaluation of virtual museum systems. In addition, the article describes such metrics as performance, factors of user engagement, and outcomes of accessibility, which is backed up by a comparative analysis. These findings demonstrate that virtual museums can contribute a great deal to inclusiveness, education outreach, and culture sustainability provided they are designed through the interoperable and user-based architecture. The paper wraps up by denoting the form that future studies should take and the contribution virtual museums can make in democratization of cultural heritage in the digital age.

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