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MuseoMag N°I 2025
Bridging academia, museum work and cultural heritage through innovation and collaboration.
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EXPLORING SYNERGIES
IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Digital Days 2024: First edition in Luxembourg and Dudelange
The success of launching our online collections
platform in autumn 2023 demonstrated a significant
interest in our museum’s digital offerings. Building on
this momentum, we aimed to integrate more digital
tools into our public programming. Examples include
our new 3D printing workshop and the incorporation
of digital tools into initiatives like the Kulturralleye or
the City Rally.
While seemingly ubiquitous, the digital is a rela-
tively new space that is being built by many actors
with very different goals in mind. It is, therefore,
important to participate in the discussions about that
space, how we use it and what we want it to look like
in the future. That is why we wanted to start having
more conversations with digital humanities experts,
including academics, cultural heritage professionals
and other practitioners. There are many ways to
use digital tools in the cultural sector, from creating
new objects to generating and then sharing new
insights. Bringing different practitioners together can
broaden our perspectives and create new synergies.
This was what we wanted to do with Digital Days, a
two-day event exploring the intersections of culture
and technology. It was during informal conversations
with our colleagues from the Centre National de
l’Audiovisuel (Cna) and the Musée national d’histoire
naturelle (MNHN) that the idea for the event first took
shape and we ended up organising it together.
DAY 1: HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
On the 7th and 8th of November around 50 partici-
pants from different backgrounds came together
for two days of fruitful exchanges. The first day was
spent at the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart where
attendees explored different practical digital ap-
proaches in hands-on workshops. Half the partici-
pants spent the day with Martina Zunica, information
designer, who gave a workshop on data visualisa-
tion. They explored the museum and later worked
on visualising that experience using digital tools. The
other half got a glimpse into editing Wikidata using
Openrefine with Edurne Kugeler in the morning and
learned the basics of creating 3D models using
photogrammetry with Paul Braun from the MNHN