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The Virtual Cultural Tour
| Title | The Virtual Cultural Tour |
| Aidamount | 1.750.000 |
| Organization | Nordjyllands Amt, the Cultural Dept. |
| Conclusion | Ingen side valgt |
| Homepage | www.kulturrejsen.dk |
| Contact | Thomas Østergaard, Museum Consultant, museumskonsulent@nja.dk |
| Other participants | Vendsyssel Historiske Museum
Museumscenter Aars/ Vesthimmerlands Museum
Aalborg Historiske Museum
Sundby Samlingerne
Hadsund Egns Museum
Sydhimmerlands Museum
The Limfjord Museum
Læsø Museum
Skagen By- & Egnsmuseum
Bangsbo Museum og Arkiv
Hirtshals Museum
Skagens Museum
Løkken Museum
Hals Museum
The Norths Sea Museum
Spillemands-, Jagt- og Skovbrugsmuseet
Godthaab Hammerværk
Gasmuseet
Vildmosemuseet
Herregården Hessel
Bryggerimuseet
Try Museum
Sæby Museum
Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum
Drachmanns Hus
Michael og Anna Anchers Hus
Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum
AM-Production A/S
Midt Nord Turisme |
| Theme | Art and Culture |
| Keywords | Art museums
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Museums
Portals |
| Project start | 01 May 2002 |
| Project end | 31 December 2003 |
| Description | The Virtual Cultural Tour project is a large and significant part of the presentation project ”The Journeys of the Museums through the Culture and History of North Denmark”, launched by the County of North Jutland, and which in addition to the virtual part consists of travel guides, exhibitions and signposting.
The idea behind the Virtual Cultural Tour is to follow the museums as "cultural travel guides" through the culture and history of the region.
Being ideal pools of knowledge and keepers of local, regional and national material and items, the museums are in a position to create an overview and form a basis to understand relations and tendencies in both local and regional history and any specific age of history.
The most essential active presentation media in the “Journeys of the Museums through the Culture and History of North Denmark” project is the development of an interactive Web site to make the knowledge of the museums accessible to the public, create a culture-historical overview and to promote the spreading of knowledge of the museums to new groups including schools and other facilities. To this end a concept for a "Virtual Cultural Tour" has been added.
The idea is to allow visitors,- be it a class, a tourist or a local citizen, access via the Internet to a virtual tour through the highlights of the items.
The tour has no intention of outdoing the real world in i effects or style, but is to create a caricatured "game universe" in which the user is the searching and investigating traveller in a cultural context.
The Internet is an obvious medium for the staging of the museums as the peaks of the virtual cultural tour. Via references from the Web sites of the tourist industry the visitor can decide for himself where to go into history - both in subject and geography within the region. "The virtual cultural journey" is a supplementary medium, which, however, holds great potentials for an interactive narrative technique and teaching method. In addition to the overview of the regional history and culture within all five items, "The Virtual Cultural Tour " allows to store its knowledge, print its route to its present position, and to compare the data you have saved and searched for, with the data retrieved by the rest of the class, or selected by ones family within the same subject.
Using the "Virtual Cultural Tour" a class could illustrate the varied developments within the region, compare equalities and disparities, and discuss the criticism of the sources with a background in the varied routes selected by each student. Adding to this the project has commercial aspects to both the museums and the producers as a potential educational material to the municipal primary and lower-secondary school. |
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