Digital technologies in Korean Museums
By Kidong Bae
Digital technology has made a great advance for the exhibition at museums. For collection management in Korea, it will be soon a big innovation of collection management by adopting REF technology for object identification. Not only for collection management, but this technology can be used for visitor control in exhibition halls. It will be much more common to use 3D visual image in near future because development of technology makes it cheaper than before. The 3D technology is often used for representation archaeological reconstructions of ancient sites and buildings to public. Recently the number of archaeological sites digitized for reconstruction in future has been increased, particularly of sites excavated by rescue programs. At present most of important ancient architects were digitally recorded and often reconstructed for public uses. Some of vanished ancient architects, such as the Hwangyong temple in Kyoungju, have been reconstructed on the basis of observed patterns at the age of the designated architects. Digital technique takes much shorter time and much more precise to make drawings of sites and other archaeological objects under being excavated, which would be very useful for exhibitions at museums and at sites after excavation. Interactive exhibitions by using digital technologies become common in newly established exhibitions. Digital technology of ‘magic book’ is being introduced and will be shown in many exhibitions because it is stimulating and making visitors to focus on exhibited objects.
Digital technologies are often used for documenting and representing intangible heritages in Korea. Recently, a new museum of traditional cultural contents, mostly intangible heritages, opened in Andong. Some VR museums of archaeological sites were constructed and can be approached through internet systems. Lately, VR could not be perfectly constructed because files should have been easily accessed by public from their homes. Situation has been improved greatly owing to high speed network systems and technique of condensing files. It is not difficult to find some websites of museums in Korea which have exhibition halls constructed by VR technique. It is also quite common to show some selected objects to be observed from different directions in websites of museums.
Rapid development of digital technology has brought remarkable change in museum exhibition and education in Korea as in other advanced countries. It should be an indispensible ability for all museum professionals to carry out relevant communication with visitors at museums in Korea.
Digital technology has made a great advance for the exhibition at museums. For collection management in Korea, it will be soon a big innovation of collection management by adopting REF technology for object identification. Not only for collection management, but this technology can be used for visitor control in exhibition halls. It will be much more common to use 3D visual image in near future because development of technology makes it cheaper than before. The 3D technology is often used for representation archaeological reconstructions of ancient sites and buildings to public. Recently the number of archaeological sites digitized for reconstruction in future has been increased, particularly of sites excavated by rescue programs. At present most of important ancient architects were digitally recorded and often reconstructed for public uses. Some of vanished ancient architects, such as the Hwangyong temple in Kyoungju, have been reconstructed on the basis of observed patterns at the age of the designated architects. Digital technique takes much shorter time and much more precise to make drawings of sites and other archaeological objects under being excavated, which would be very useful for exhibitions at museums and at sites after excavation. Interactive exhibitions by using digital technologies become common in newly established exhibitions. Digital technology of ‘magic book’ is being introduced and will be shown in many exhibitions because it is stimulating and making visitors to focus on exhibited objects.
Digital technologies are often used for documenting and representing intangible heritages in Korea. Recently, a new museum of traditional cultural contents, mostly intangible heritages, opened in Andong. Some VR museums of archaeological sites were constructed and can be approached through internet systems. Lately, VR could not be perfectly constructed because files should have been easily accessed by public from their homes. Situation has been improved greatly owing to high speed network systems and technique of condensing files. It is not difficult to find some websites of museums in Korea which have exhibition halls constructed by VR technique. It is also quite common to show some selected objects to be observed from different directions in websites of museums.
Rapid development of digital technology has brought remarkable change in museum exhibition and education in Korea as in other advanced countries. It should be an indispensible ability for all museum professionals to carry out relevant communication with visitors at museums in Korea.
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