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Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions–Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2020)

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This paper presents an Augmented Reality (AR) project for the curation of virtual museum ‘takeouts’ and DIY exhibitions. The project’s outputs include novel AR app technology demonstrators to support co-design with museum users and stakeholders - the goal being to create useful and easy-to-use AR apps for scholars, citizen scientists and the interested public.

The apps were designed for users to create, display, animate and interact with exhibitions of selected 3D artefacts that could, for example, reflect academic specialisms for sharing with fellow researchers, support curators in exhibition planning or enable friends and students to share eclectic favourites from museum visits. The overarching project ambition was to create AR apps to support research, engagement and education, and to enable interactive and personalized visualizations of individual artefacts as well as reconstructed forms. As presented in the paper, these forms are exemplified in the AR apps with 3D models of a cuneiform envelope and its tablet contents, viewable either as i) separate artefacts or ii) in their reconstructed enveloped form, with the AR apps enabling animated opening and ‘X-ray views’ of the contents within. In this way, the apps can enable users to visualize individual objects and reconstructions that could, for example, incorporate artefacts held in different museums.

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Acknowledgements

The development of the app was supported by Keele University Faculty of Science Awards. The authors thank Ash Leake, from the School of Computing and Mathematics at Keele University, for the 3D printing of artefacts. The authors also wish to thank National Museums Liverpool for permissions and support in achieving the acquisitions and apps.

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  1. Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Sandra Woolley, James Mitchell, Richard Rhodes & Tendai Rukasha

  2. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Tim Collins

  3. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Erlend Gehlken

  4. Nottingham Ningbo University, Ningbo, China

    Eugene Ch’ng

  5. National Museums Liverpool (World Museum), Liverpool, UK

    Ashley Cooke

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Woolley, S. et al. (2021). Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions–Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement. In: Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Cantoni, L., Champion, E. (eds) Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_27

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