Digital Humanities at the Crossroads between Museums and Tourism

Authors

  • Maria Isabel Roque Universidade Europeia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revhuman.v4.748

Keywords:

Digital Humanities, Museology, Creative Tourism

Abstract

The dialogue between museum and public faces an increasingly challenge, with the growth of cultural tourism, seen as prestigious leisure activity, which allows it to select some destinations, meanwhile others are abandoned. There are new forms of development related to creative tourism, requiring the redefinition of museum activities in association with the other cultural experiences on territory. The relationship between tourism and museum involves the research in digital humanities. The application of technology may enhance the visitor's museum experience. It anticipates the collection knowledge and helps to prepare the museum visit, according to its expectations and experiences. In the museum, it allows him to interact with the exhibition and to access to the additional cognitive resources, and it provides the functional and symbolic context of the object. Finally, after the visit, it restores the memories of the experience. The museum takes back the mediating role as cultural and leisure space, in order to accomplish the creative tourism requirements.

Author Biography

Maria Isabel Roque, Universidade Europeia

Doutora em História, especialização em Museologia. Integrou os comissariados de exposições de arte sacra, tendo colaborado nos respetivos catálogos e o grupo de trabalho para a versão portuguesa do Thesaurus: vocabulário de objectos do culto católico. Integrou a equipa que iniciou e desenvolveu o projeto da biblioteca digital da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal e participou nas bibliotecas digitais das Universidades de Lisboa e de Coimbra. Leciona disciplinas de História da Arte, na Universidade Europeia, e de Museologia e Património na Universidade Católica Portuguesa. É autora de Altar cristão: evolução até à Reforma Católica (Lisboa: Universidade Lusí- ada, 2004) e de O sagrado no museu: musealização de objectos do culto católico em contexto português (Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora, 2011), além de artigos no âmbito da arte religiosa, da história da museologia e da comunicação no museu. Editora do blogue http://amusearte.hypotheses.org/.

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Published

2015-03-06

How to Cite

Roque, M. I. (2015). Digital Humanities at the Crossroads between Museums and Tourism. HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review Revista Internacional De Humanidades, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revhuman.v4.748

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Research articles