SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS FOR MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS
23 April 2025 – Digital Heritage and Media Literacy Seminar for Museum Educators
Based on the best practices and ideas of the museum educators who took part in the workshop, as well as notes from the training (slides), 14 creative assignments were created to guide students in navigating digital cultural heritage and in creating something entirely new from it.
On 14–16 August 2024, the Estonian National Museum hosted seminars and workshops on the creative use of digital heritage. Over the course of three days, participants were introduced to contemporary applications of digital heritage and engaged in joint experimentation and reflection on different ways it can be used.
A large part of Estonia’s cultural heritage has been digitised and made accessible online. This invaluable resource holds great potential for a wide variety of uses in today’s society. The first round of seminars was designed for professionals working in memory institutions, allowing participants to choose between attending the full three-day programme or selecting individual seminars and workshops most relevant to their interests.
The seminars were organised within the framework of the Ministry of Culture–funded research project “Digital Cultural Heritage as a Social Resource.” The project aims to analyse and develop opportunities for co-creation between different audiences and museums in designing uses for digital cultural heritage, to carry out various experiments, and to create supporting materials for this work.
23 April 2025 – Digital Heritage and Media Literacy Seminar for Museum Educators
Based on the best practices and ideas of the museum educators who took part in the workshop, as well as notes from the training (slides), 14 creative assignments were created to guide students in navigating digital cultural heritage and in creating something entirely new from it.
On 14–16 August 2024, the Estonian National Museum hosted seminars and workshops on the creative use of digital heritage. Over the course of three days, participants were introduced to contemporary applications of digital heritage and engaged in joint experimentation and reflection on different ways it can be used.
A large part of Estonia’s cultural heritage has been digitised and made accessible online. This invaluable resource holds great potential for a wide variety of uses in today’s society. The first round of seminars was designed for professionals working in memory institutions, allowing participants to choose between attending the full three-day programme or selecting individual seminars and workshops most relevant to their interests.
Participants could choose from the following seminars and workshops:
Workshop "Builiding a Kratt (Estonian mythological creature) for collecting digital heritage" by Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Visiting Researcher at the Estonian National Museum and Professor at Malmö University)
Lecture “Engaging People in Using Digital Heritage” by Mahendra Mahey (Tallinn University, GLAMLab expert)
Lecture and Workshop: “Learning from Best Practices in the Use of Digital Collections” by Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Workshop: “Play with Open MUIS Data” Parts 1 and 2 by Oleksandr Cherednychenko (Tallinn University, Data Engineer).
The seminars were organised within the framework of the Ministry of Culture–funded research project “Digital Cultural Heritage as a Social Resource.” The project aims to analyse and develop opportunities for co-creation between different audiences and museums in designing uses for digital cultural heritage, to carry out various experiments, and to create supporting materials for this work.