New Technologies for Museums: Perspective Enhancing Visitors' Experience

Museums have taken an initiative to embrace the new technologies for the visitors. Museum as a cultural institute reflects all changes occurring in cultural, political, economic and technological fields. Nowadays, as modern technologies bring major changes in the way we perceive space and time and open up new ways in understanding the world and all things, the museum is considered as a network of potential things, a kind of interactivity that use digital reality to create a connection between the museum curators and patrons. This paper aims to find out the usage of various technologies in museums. It also includes an analysis of different experiments and experiences in the new technology-based museums of Bangladesh and of abroad. A survey, content analysis and observations were included as methods of data collection and descriptive methods through different statistatical tools were used to data analysis in this study. This study shows that the digital technologies augment visitors experiences.