Are Museums Still Important in the Digital Age?
A fire destroyed and engulfed the 2 century old Brazilian Museum. The museum lost over 20 million of its possessions,so the question is, do we need a museum in a tech savvy era? In my personal opinion we will always need both, what if technology gets destroyed or malfunctions, we would have to go back to the old ways of finding information. In this case it was the old resources that have been destroyed, but it's okay cause we have our tech to fall back on. I think each outlet of information has its benefits, when you go to a museum your experiencing the information first hand, it is authentic. But on the other hand technology allows us to find things in many different ways and experience the information given to us virtually through a high def scope, but it is important to know thhat we are seeing this info through other peoples eye and not first hand. So when it all comes down to it, I think this debate is up for interpretation.
I think that this is a very important thing to think about when it comes to preserving history. I think that it is important to have a physical museum for something and a digital copy of it just in case.
ReplyDeleteMaya Friedmann