On the morning of August 27, the Digital Museum Forum was held in the banquet hall on the 2nd floor of Wyndham Chongqing Yuelai. This Forum, under the theme of Smart Museum Construction, gathered more than 300 experts and scholars in smart museum construction of the museology sector. These experts, both domestic and international included curators of leading museums in smart museum construction, representatives of key scientific, technological and cultural enterprises, and foreign representatives in smart museum construction.

Digital Museum Forum

 

On this Forum, 7 keynote speakers including Cheng Wuyan, Curator of China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing, and Jamie Andrews, Head of Culture and Learning of the British Library expounded the latest progress and views on the new issues such as the extensive application of modern information technology bringing significant changes to the museum as the cultural center and promoting the intelligent development of the museum. They also outlined the future blueprint in which the museum is smart enough to co-create works, share information, and interact with its participants.

Jamie Andrews introduced that British Library has digitalized a vast quantity of books with Microsoft, ended up with 25 million pages of books, and share that 25 million pages with everyone. With 1 billion views and 17 billion tags those images on Flicker, it aims to let people inspired by those images. And there are lots of artists and art pieces emerging derived from the images.

Michael Takeo Magruder, an artist from the British National Archives, has taken all Victorian times map from 19^thcentury to be scanned and made a combination with contemporary digital cities VR piece. It created maps for London, Chongqing, and other places. It is interesting to embrace technology with the interaction of arts from people`s notion to explore the possibilities in an analog digital space.

The application of the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, mobile Internet, and other modern information technologies has brought immense changes to the museum, the cultural center. It’s necessary to integrate the museum and technology and set up a complete smart museum ecosystem for eulogizing Chinese stories, reinforcing the cultural confidence and carrying forward the unique traditional Chinese culture.

The representative deliver speeches at the forum

 

The Digital Museum Forum is the first forum held in Chongqing to discuss the smart museology sector. At SCE 2018, the Smart Museology Exhibition Area sponsored by the National Cultural Heritage Administration was extremely popular so that it added a strong cultural atmosphere to the first SCE. Visitors lined up for the wonderful experience brought by the unique historical culture. Therefore, at this year’s SCE, the smart museology sector not only possessed an upgraded exhibition area, a strong lineup of exhibitors and the exhibition of the latest intelligent museum achievements, but also saw the Digital Museum Forum for promoting in-depth exchanges between the museology sector and the field of science and technology, thus building a newest platform for the smart museum construction.