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In this episode, I’ll look at how old world museums are surviving the digital age. Does digital innovation spell doom for museums? Do virtual museum tours make brick and mortar museums redundant?

Virtual tours
• British Museum, London: https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
• National Palace Museum, Taipei: https://tech2.npm.edu.tw/720vr/museumen/views.html 
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum 
• Virtual museum tours: https://www.timeout.com/travel/virtual-museum-tours

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References
Black, G 2012, Transforming Museums in the Twenty-First Century, Milton Park, Abington and New York, pp. 1-12.

British Museum 2020, Instagram, viewed 13 May 2020, https://www.instagram.com/britishmuseum/.

British Museum 2020, Twitter, viewed 13 May 2020, https://twitter.com/britishmuseum. 

British Museum n.d., The museum of the world, viewed 13 May 2020, https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/. 

Gonchar, M 2018, Are museums still important in the digital age?, The New York Times, viewed 12 May 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/learning/museums-protection-internet.html.

Heath, C & vom Lehn, D 2010, 'Interactivity and collaboration: new forms of participation in museums, galleries and science centres', in R Parry (ed.), Museums in a Digital Age, Routledge, New York and London, pp. 266-78.

Lovell, L & Time Out editors 2020, Check out these virtual tours of museums around the world, Time Out, viewed 12 May 2020, https://www.timeout.com/travel/virtual-museum-tours. 

Norman, J n.d., The first use of virtual reality in a museum or archaeological context, History of Information, viewed 13 May 2020, http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4082. 

The digital transformation of the British Museum 2015, Blooloop, viewed 13 May 2020, https://blooloop.com/features/the-digital-transformation-of-the-british-museum-2/. 

Image
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Music
Candyflip (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/RAJ6aBRleF) by Molife.

Covid & Culture Ep. 1: Museums in the Digital Age

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Photo: Taft I (7 October 2020) 'Coast’s Vietnamese community rallies for Trump in Biloxi. ‘We don’t like communism.’, Sun Herald, accessed 1 January 2020, <https://www.sunherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article246288675.html>.

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