TY - JOUR
T1 - The Future of the past
T2 - digital media in Holocaust museums
AU - Brown, Adam
AU - Waterhouse-Watson, Deb
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This essay critically examines the implications of digital media for the remembrance of the Holocaust in contemporary museum spaces, a development that has seen fundamental shifts in thinking around agency, education and entertainment. Expanding existing discussions of this issue into the Australian context, the essay takes as its central case study the design and integration of interactive StoryPod screen media in Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre. Addressing both the limitations and potentialities of interactive digital technologies for facilitating visitor-viewers' engagement with survivor stories, the analysis highlights that digital media can be used to complement and enhance – rather than replace – traditional artefact and photographic displays, and will play an integral role in the Holocaust museums of the future.
AB - This essay critically examines the implications of digital media for the remembrance of the Holocaust in contemporary museum spaces, a development that has seen fundamental shifts in thinking around agency, education and entertainment. Expanding existing discussions of this issue into the Australian context, the essay takes as its central case study the design and integration of interactive StoryPod screen media in Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre. Addressing both the limitations and potentialities of interactive digital technologies for facilitating visitor-viewers' engagement with survivor stories, the analysis highlights that digital media can be used to complement and enhance – rather than replace – traditional artefact and photographic displays, and will play an integral role in the Holocaust museums of the future.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066842337&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17504902.2014.11435374
DO - 10.1080/17504902.2014.11435374
M3 - Article
SN - 1750-4902
VL - 20
SP - 1
EP - 32
JO - Holocaust studies
JF - Holocaust studies
IS - 3
ER -