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Corporate art collections : a handbook to corporate buying
This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature and importance of corporate collecting and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections, including investment, cultural caché, and asset diversification. Based on interviews with the curators, consultants and investors who run such collections, and more extended case studies of important collections, the book concludes with an examination of when corporate collecting becomes a liability and the market-impact of deaccessioning, looking ahead to the future of corporate collecting.
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Bridging Artifact and Digital Content Management: Challenges in the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History
This paper examines the challenges faced by contemporary history museums in managing collections that blur boundaries between physical artifacts and digital content. The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History (NMKCH) serves as a case study, revealing tensions between traditional Korean heritage management systems and contemporary collecting requirements. The December 2024 martial law crisis demonstrates how historical events manifest simultaneously through physical protests and digital activism, creating hybrid materials that resist traditional categorization. Analysis reveals that bifurcated management systems fragment historical records and impede comprehensive documentation. While technical solutions offer operational improvements, fundamental conceptual shifts are needed in museum practice. NMKCH's planned Center for Contemporary History Collections and Archives (2030) represents institutional recognition of these challenges, proposing integrated approaches to contemporary history documentation. This research contributes to understanding collection management practices for hybrid materials in the digital age.
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Past for Future – museums as a digitalized “interaction platform” for value co-creation in tourism destinations
PurposeThis paper aims to explore how digital technologies can transform the museum into an “interaction platform” able to play a key role in the value co-creation processes of the tourism destination.Design/methodology/approachThe paper applies the “co-creation through interactions” perspective by Ramaswamy and Ozcan. Empirically, the paper is based on the methodology of single case study identified in MArTA, the well-known National Archeological Museum of Taranto (South Italy). Data collection has been implemented through interviews with key informants and secondary data related to online interviews, press release and reports.FindingsFindings provide empirical evidence about the contribution that a digitalization strategy can create a “museum as a platform” in which the interactions between the museum, its stakeholders and other co-creation elements (interfaces, artifacts and processes) bring benefits in terms of tourism experiences and sustainable development of the destination.Practical implicationsThis research highlights the cultural changes and the actions that museum management has to implement to properly benefit from digitalization and to transform the museum into a reference point for reflection and innovation.Originality/valueElements of originality can be found in (1) the exploration of the wide spectrum of benefits and innovations that digital technologies can offer to the museum-mediated interactions and (2) the contribution to the understanding of the museum as a digitalized “interaction platform” capable of supporting the processes of co-creation of value in the complex network of actors and objects of a tourism destination.
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The Communication Challenge in Archaeological Museums in Puglia: Insights into the Contribution of Social Media and ICTs to Small-Scale Institutions
Archaeological museums play a vital role in regions with ancient roots, holding a millennial image as the cradle of civilization. In the South of Italy (former “Magna Graecia”) and particularly in Puglia—a melting pot of cultures where ancient Messapian, Byzantine, Roman, and Greek civilizations followed one another in ages, bequeathing a wealth of testimonies—institutions are disseminated across the region, and almost every small municipality has its own archaeological museum hosting a wealth of valuable objects and remains. The gradual structural changes in the role of museums over the last decades and the recent COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, with the sudden closing and subsequent re-opening of facilities, forced institutions to re-think and re-develop their communication practices everywhere. Museums across the world have since been conceiving original and effective strategies based on social media and ICTs. After framing the problem background, the article introduces an overview of good practice and virtuous examples in the museum field and a questionnaire-based focus survey on a sample of archaeological museums in Puglia in order to assess the status of local communication strategies’ implementation against the potential of modern technologies. The survey results allowed identifying a peculiar mix of “emergency” and evolutional approaches in the sample analyzed, main concerns and barriers to the adoption of digital strategies, but also specific strategic drivers for innovation in the very nature of local small institutions. The study’s outcomes offer a potential contribution to the alignment of institutions to current standards through informed policies that can be usefully shared in other similar contexts across Europe.
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Who Owns Antiquity?
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But inWho Owns Antiquity?, one of the world's leading museum directors vigorously challenges this nationalistic position, arguing that it is damaging and often disingenuous. \"Antiquities,\" James Cuno argues, \"are the cultural property of all humankind,\" \"evidence of the world's ancient past and not that of a particular modern nation. They comprise antiquity, and antiquity knows no borders.\"
Cuno argues that nationalistic retention and reclamation policies impede common access to this common heritage and encourage a dubious and dangerous politicization of antiquities--and of culture itself. Antiquities need to be protected from looting but also from nationalistic identity politics. To do this, Cuno calls for measures to broaden rather than restrict international access to antiquities. He advocates restoration of the system under which source countries would share newly discovered artifacts in exchange for archaeological help, and he argues that museums should again be allowed reasonable ways to acquire undocumented antiquities. Cuno explains how partage broadened access to our ancient heritage and helped create national museums in Cairo, Baghdad, and Kabul. The first extended defense of the side of museums in the struggle over antiquities,Who Owns Antiquity?is sure to be as important as it is controversial.
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Digital Protection and Utilization of Architectural Heritage Using Knowledge Visualization
Architectural heritage is a lively carrier of historical development, as well as providing a valuable resource for human society. Recently, however, the longevity of architectural heritage has been influenced and even threatened by natural and human factors. Furthermore, the future remains uncertain. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a comprehensive method, namely, digital protection and utilization based on knowledge visualization (DPUKV), to protect and utilize architectural heritage. The most important problem to solve involves transforming digital protection data into a digital inheritance culture. We constructed a technical framework of knowledge acquisition, knowledge reconstruction, knowledge innovation, and knowledge management using qualitative and vertical methods to form hierarchical digital resources of architectural heritage. In particular, the knowledge reconstruction converted tacit knowledge of architectural heritage into explicit knowledge via visualization technology, providing research materials for more scholars. In knowledge innovation, architectural heritage culture was excavated and inherited through knowledge graphs, digital displays, and cultural creation with virtual reality, augmented reality, etc. Furthermore, this method was validated over four years via architectural heritage in China as case studies. In this paper, the buildings of Qinglian Temple in Shanxi, China, are discussed in detail as a case study. The results indicated that this method was effective for preserving architectural heritage and is suitable for other cultural heritage. It is also helpful to improve the public’s protection of and interest in cultural heritage, especially architectural heritage.
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Restoration of Context through the Utilization of Museum Archives: A Case Study of Folklife Archive at National Folk Museum of Korea
Museum collections are frequently standardized, resulting in the loss of their original regional and cultural contexts. In response, National Folk Museum of Korea (NFMK) established Folklife Archive to preserve and reconstruct these unique contextual elements. This article examines how Folklife Archive restores the original meanings of museum artifacts, such as associated practices, memories, traditions, and facilitates their communication to the public. The article reviews relevant literature on the evolving role of Folklife Archive in enriching collections and supporting research. It then presents three core case studies from NFMK: a special exhibition featuring the Kim Su-nam photographic archive; interactive experiences at Folklife Archive Information Centre in NFMK Paju; and educational programs based on traditional seasonal events. The digital archiving process, including systematic collection, metadata registration, and the implementation of Folklife Archive Management System, is also discussed. Efforts to integrate archive and collection data, despite system separation and technical constraints are illustrated through the use of public information terminals. Lastly, the article addresses ongoing efforts to promote shared use of archival databases among regional museums. Although challenges remain in harmonizing classification systems, the article emphasizes the need for user-centred digital platforms that support both institutional diversity and international accessibility.
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