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MuseoTorino wins Icom prize
21 novembre, 16:23
(ANSA) - TURIN - The virtual museum MuseoTorino has won the
2011 Information Communication Technology (ICOM) prize for
Italian Museums. The project, created as part of the
celebrations to mark 150 years of Italian Unification, was
awarded the prize in recognition of its skill at promoting and
facilitating the relationship between the museum and the public
through new technologies.
MuseoTorino is unique, both at a national and European level.
It groups together, preserves and shares knowledge about the city Turin. Located at www.museotorino.it, it features information on places, their history, the people that lived there and particular events, meandering through the entire city along themed routes. Each stop - be it a place, an event, a person or a theme - is accompanied by an information page, complete with notes, archiving options and book references.
Around 13,700 pages are included, which are updated daily. "The MuseoTorino project is one of the most sophisticated interpretations of international eco-museology, in which a big city, Turin, has itself been transformed into a museum, revealing secret pieces of heritage," commented the ICOM panel in reaching its decision. "These have been gathered together and made accessible through an effective mix of all new technologies. It moves beyond the traditional concept of the 'city museum', i.e. a place chosen to tell the historic events of an urban space, and moves into a vision that skilfully blends the all-Italian concept of a "multi-site museum" with the international concept of the eco-museum. The technology used is not therefore an accessory but rather a medium for the actual museum itself. In that sense it opens new frontiers in applying new technologies to cultural heritage". The website, created by the Turin municipal council with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, utilizes state-of-the-art apparatus that allows users to navigate the paths of Web 3.0 and open source networking. "It aims to be not only a museum for everyone but a museum by everyone," the panel remarked. (ANSA).
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It groups together, preserves and shares knowledge about the city Turin. Located at www.museotorino.it, it features information on places, their history, the people that lived there and particular events, meandering through the entire city along themed routes. Each stop - be it a place, an event, a person or a theme - is accompanied by an information page, complete with notes, archiving options and book references.
Around 13,700 pages are included, which are updated daily. "The MuseoTorino project is one of the most sophisticated interpretations of international eco-museology, in which a big city, Turin, has itself been transformed into a museum, revealing secret pieces of heritage," commented the ICOM panel in reaching its decision. "These have been gathered together and made accessible through an effective mix of all new technologies. It moves beyond the traditional concept of the 'city museum', i.e. a place chosen to tell the historic events of an urban space, and moves into a vision that skilfully blends the all-Italian concept of a "multi-site museum" with the international concept of the eco-museum. The technology used is not therefore an accessory but rather a medium for the actual museum itself. In that sense it opens new frontiers in applying new technologies to cultural heritage". The website, created by the Turin municipal council with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, utilizes state-of-the-art apparatus that allows users to navigate the paths of Web 3.0 and open source networking. "It aims to be not only a museum for everyone but a museum by everyone," the panel remarked. (ANSA).
