Design and Strategy of Digital Exhibition Space for the Display of Archives Through the Comparison of Museums with the Newly Developed High Technological Application

Abstract

Museums are places for the exhibition of cultural, historical, and technical events for education of visitors of all ages and genders. Therefore, every museum has its own method to show the contents and events with the traditional or cutting-edge ways to effectively and efficiently carry the information to the viewers. Recently, the digitalization of archives has become common in many museums and the use of 3D data has become one of the central issues of digital exhibition. In the present study, we investigated several museums with a relatively large scale of exhibition spaces and actively adopted the newly developed technologies in order to get useful guidelines and lessons for building the digital exhibition space design and strategy. Specially, we focused on several efficient digitally mediated technologies for the display of digital 3D data of objects in the exhibition. The WebGL, augmented reality (AR), and pseudo-hologram technologies were investigated and suggested as effective strategies to display the 3D digital contents in an exhibition space. During the development of these applications, the interaction between users (visitors) and digital contents of a display system was our main concern, as we aimed to create an interesting and immersive exhibition experience for the audience. The results of this paper provide helpful insights for designing and setting up a space program of a digital exhibition and displaying the contents with the newly developed high technological application.