Museilaboratoriet

Promoting digital media use in museums in Finland

Museilaboratoriet started in 2005 as a collaboration between the Forum for Cultural Heritage and three museums in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland in order to promote the use of digital media in local history museums. After the initial concept development, the three museums decided to collaborate on a common digital database of the local historic archives.

How it works

This database is accessible on the Internet through a wiki-application, where students from the local schools and other visitors will be able to consult the database and add content. Any kind of file can be added - text, image, sound, film, etc.

In order to limit the amount of material to digitise and present to the visitors, it will be done at specific intervals in the form of a web-based exhibition. The pilot project deals with the time of the 2nd world war and was published at www.museilaboratoriet.fi in March 2007.

In collaboration with: Anne Bergström, Pargas hembygdsmuseum; Katarina Rosenback, Sinikka Norrback and Sara Bondegård, Kilens hembygdsgård; Laura Holm and Linda Blomqvist, Bjärgas hembygdsgård och museum and Staffan Rydegård and Peter Muld, Approach AB.

External homepage: http://www.museilaboratoriet.fi