Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Barcelona - ES

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Description

Event:

n.a.

Target group:

General public

Purposes:

• Promote the social and educational use of art. • Offer itself as a space for knowledge, debate, social ties and participation • Generate new knowledge through research and collaboration with other institutions.

European initiative reference:

n.a.

Info

Spain – Barcelona

Space Needed: Big

Activity:

The Museu d'Art de Catalunya brings together an extensive collection of medieval, romantic, modern, Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque art. The museum thus aims to show Catalan artistic expression beyond chronological limits. The organisation of temporary exhibitions and activities to bring people closer to art also make the museum a centre for artistic dialogue and debate.

Contact

tel.: +34 936 22 03 60 e-mail: internet@museunacional.cat

Website

Strengths

•   Possibility to organise digital exhibitions and reach a wider audience
•   Possibility of zooming in on photos of digital works and catching details difficult to notice with the naked eye
•   The digital collection can replace the physical collection or complement it
•   Increased audience engagement rate

Weaknesses

• Possible increase in the digital divide in terms of access to technological support

Digital Solutions

• Second Canvas Museu Nacional App
• Digital collection with multimedia and interactive content

Methodology

• Second Canvas involves one or more days of digitisation at very high resolution at the museum or in a photographic studio, if possible. The museum will have to prepare a card, with at least 5 details, for each digitised work.
• The digitised collection will then be uploaded onto the museum's Second Canvas app or a platform of the museum's choice and multimedia and interactive content can be added.

Resources needed and start-up costs

• Second Canvas subscription: after a free trial, from US$ 900 per year

Possible low cost solution

• To realise a low-cost digital collection, you can also consider photographing the paintings with cheaper equipment, even with simple cameras. Although the resolution of the photos would be significantly lower, you can make the collection more appealing by taking advantage of free platforms such as StoryMapJS that allow you to add interactive content to a photo.

Transferable innovative principles and methods

1. Guided tours via the app

The Second Canvas Museu Nacional app offers a new way to visit the museum. In the app, you can explore the works through very high-resolution images with interactive narration, or take an audio-guided tour of the building or of the museum's 20 most important works, in 9 different languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Source: App Second Canvas Museu Nacional

2. Digitised collection

The digitisation of the museum's collection via Second Canvas not only allows the creation of multimedia and interactive content to make the experience more immersive, but also allows the images of the works to be zoomed in with unparalleled quality.

Source: https://www.secondcanvas.net/

USEFUL LINKS / FURTHER REFERENCES

https://www.museunacional.cat/es
https://www.museunacional.cat/es/articulo/second-canvas-museu-nacional-una-nueva-manera-de-explorar-el-museo
https://www.secondcanvas.net/