The Royal Museum of Mariemont is part of the DOORS - Digital Incubator of Museums network. (DOORS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101036071).
The project - Customised Expert Coaching for the Digital Transition of the Royal Museum of Mariemont - intends to map out digital strategy options, setting off with a digital audit built upon internal reports, consultations with experts as well as visitor feedback. Following this learning stage, the museum will work on making the existing 3D scans of collection pieces compatible with a selected viewing tool for a more effective and user-friendly interaction with the artefacts. The goal is to create a new visitor experience allowing the manipulation of objects directly from a touch terminal and ease online access for researchers worldwide.
The DOORS project (in its first phase) allowed our Museum to meet with some forty other European institutions facing the same challenges in terms of digital integration as we do. It allowed us to share the digital vision of each of them and to better understand the challenges and realistic expectations of our respective institutions. The discovery of interesting providers and advanced digital techniques also opened our eyes to the possibilities that digital technology offers us, and what could work for the Museum in the future. In short, we benefited from a rich program spread out over a few weeks that allows us to make a leap forward in the internal reflection with our colleagues - IT manager, Royal Museum of Mariemont.
Phase 2 of the project
The Royal Museum of Mariemont is among 20 European Museums chosen by the Horizon Europe project DOORS (Digital Incubator for Museums) to implement its own pilot project ‘Mariemont 3D: A new User Approach and Visitor Experience’.
As part of this project, the Royal Museum of Mariemont lays the ground for a digital transition by mapping out the museum’s business architecture to identify ICT opportunities, assessing past digital activities, brainstorming future digital storytelling ideas and creating staff training opportunities in 3D modelling software. The final goal is to address the challenge of attracting and creatively engaging “non” and “future” visitors and stakeholders. The Museum will resort to design thinking methods for qualitative audience analyses of ecosystem stakeholders and young descendants of the museum’s existing patrons (Friends of Mariemont) and develop a new interactive visitor experience from 3D scans of several key works from its collections.
