Stadtmuseum Dresden - Dresden City Museum

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Description

Event:

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Target group:

• Visitors to Dresden

Purposes:

• Representing 800 years of Dresden’s history • Implementing innovative digital pilots for the future

European initiative reference:

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Info

Germany

Space Needed: Medium

Activity:

The City Museum of Dresden is the central city and local history museum in the Saxon capital of Dresden, and it is located in the historic country house just a few meters from the Frauenkirche. The permanent exhibition presents over 1,000 exhibits in three halls.

Contact

tel.: +49 351 4887301 fax: +49 351 4887303 e-mail: sekretariat@museen-dresden.de

Website

Strengths

A wider selection of products
Networking with the other cultural institutions
Facilitated access to finance: some specific costs are financed by the project

Weaknesses

Possible increase in the digital divide in the population with low digital literacy
High skills required for the implementation and the management of digital tools
Additional costs for the implementation of digital solutions

Digital Solutions

Over twenty media stations
Numerous film installations
A small cinema

Methodology

To set up media stations and a small cinema, all the necessary equipment must be installed in a dedicated space. The downloading (or realisation) and installation of the audio-visual content and materials to be screened or implemented in the media stations must also be taken care of. With regard to the small cinema, it is advisable to provide seating for visitors.

Resources needed and start-up costs

Interactive screen for media station: from 1.000 euros (Please consider that the price can vary considerably depending on the size of the screen)
Small cinema set-up: from 400 euros

Possible low cost solution

To make a media station on a budget, smaller screens must be considered. You can make the visitor experience engaging and interactive even with simple tablets.
In any case, buying used equipment is a viable option that will reduce costs.

Transferable innovative principles and methods

1. Digital tools as a museum’s mission

Over twenty media stations, numerous film installations and a small cinema demonstrate how the city has changed over the past century.

Digital tools are therefore an essential part of the museum vision: the representation of Dresden’s history.

Tours of the exhibition, lectures and insights into the restoration workshops can be found in the YouTube playlist.

On Sachsenfernsehen there is a selection of films created in cooperation with the Stadt Museum Dresden.

2. Apply for incubation programme: the case of DOORS - Digital Incubator for Museum

The Stadt Museum Dresden applied for the DOORS call for proposals and it has been among the 40 winners who are now in the first stage of the DOORS incubation programme.

DOORS is a project funded from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, which seeks to give small and medium-sized museums across Europe an opportunity to steer the direction of the digital transformation’s sector.

DOORS wants to reduce the digitalization gap by creating the space for small institutions to voice their needs and offering them access to knowledge, resources, expertise and an incubation and skill-building program. This project will ensure the attraction of the audience and the finance sustainability. In particular, the goal for the Stadt Museum Dresden is to implement innovative digital pilots for the future.

More calls on the same project will follow.