Conference Programme

• Marie Gilbertova – ICOM CIMUSET Chair
• Bettina Leidl – ICOM Austria Vice-President
• Peter Aufreiter – Director General TMW
• Claudia Plakolm – Federal Chancellery of Austria State Secretary for digital affairs and e-government agendas

Moderator: Jacob Thorek Jensen

What are museums for? Democracy participation and science communication in post-digital times

• Sarah Davies – University of Vienna (Austria)

Moderator: Martina Griesser-Stermscheg

Paradigm shifts of inclusivity and participation in science museums and sci-tech centres

• Ceren Güneröz – Ankara University (Turkey)

Moderator: Seifollah Jalili

Science Communication.

• Digital technologies in Polish science and technology museums
  Ewa Wyka – Polish Academy of Sciences Jagiellonian University Museum (Poland)
• Social networks and websites of science museums: a study on the impact models and actions of science communication
  Luís Amorim* Monique Ferraz Costa – Museu da Vida Fiocruz Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil)
• Practice and Reflection on the Integration of Science Popularization and Intangible Heritage Education
  Song Ji – Wuhan Science and Technology Museum (China)

Moderator: Jacob Thorek Jensen

Participation.

• Encouraging Audiences to Use the Digitally Accessible Resources of Museums
  Anna Pluszyńska – Jagiellonian University (Poland)
• Preservation Partnerships and Participations: Ingenium’s Approach to Researching and Sharing Digital Collections
  Emily Gann*, Monique Horth – Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation (Canada)
• Among Accessible Museums Project: Access Through Museum Education
  Camila Oliveira – Museu do Amanhã (Brazil)
• User-Generated Content (UGC): How Museums Can Use it to Engage Audiences
  Lara Corona – Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Spain)

Moderator: Amparo Leyman Pino

Art and Research.

• Digitizing the Past Driving Discovery – A Digitization Project on Objects from Early Belgrade’s Chemistry Labs Inspiring Multifaceted Data Exploration
  Sladjana Savic*, Vesna Milanovic Mastrapovic, Lidija Ralevic, Snezana Bojovic, Biljana Tomasevic, Goran Roglic, Veselin Milunovic, Branislav Vojnovic, Bogdan Solaja, Aleksandar Kostic – University of Belgrade (Serbia)
• How can digital approaches enhance artefact research and display: The case of steam engine models at the Deutsches Museum
  Panagiotis Poulopoulos – Deutsches Museum München (Germany)
• Exploring the Intersection of Scientific Knowledge and Art: Utilising Museums and Science Centers for Science Communication in Education
  Paraskevi Siginou*, Eirini Gkouskou – Hellenic Open University University College London (Greece Great Britain)
• Not For Your Eyes Only – digital co-created contents to play the noise of art
  Elena Santi*, Nicola Orio, Daniel Zilio, Chiara Marin, Andrea Micheletti, Sara Cavinato – University Museums Center – University of Padua Meeple srl (Italy)

Moderator: Klaus Staubermann

Moderator: Monique Horth

Collecting the Digital: Mission, Community, Infrastructure

• Dragan Espenschied – Rhizome (USA/Germany)

Moderator: Martina Griesser-Stermscheg

Strategies for Collecting the Digital.

• Digital Dialogues: Fostering Museum-Community. Partnerships for Sustainable Heritage Preservation
  Olli Nordling – The Finnish Postal Museum, Finnish Museum of Games and Rupriikki Media Museum of the Tampere Historical Museums
• Considering a New Microformat for Deep Archiving of the Web
  Boštjan Špetič, Borut Kumperščak, Marko Štamcar, Gaja Zornada* – Computer History Museum Slovenia (Računalniški muzej)
• The Software Archive and Collection of the Vienna Museum of Technology
  Nika Maltar, Martina Griesser-Stermscheg*
• The contribution of the digitisation of museums on Moroccan tourism promotion within smart cities
  Nabil Nadia*, Jamila Saidi – Hassan II University, Casablanca, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences Mohammedia, LADES Laboratory

Moderator: Frank Gnegel

How to use AI?

• How a mouse trap can make us reflect on what role artificial intelligence should play in our lives
  Jacob Thorek Jensen – Danish Museum of Science and Technology (Denmark)
• Exploring ‘New Realities’: Bridging Society and Digital Technology through Image AI Exhibition
  Annabelle Hornung – Museum of Communication Nuremberg (Germany)
• The near future: Using AI technology to create interactive sci-fi experiences based on visitor interests in science and technology museums
  Yasaman haji Esmaili, Kimia (Fatemeh) Amini Khoshouei* – STUDIO 4, Iranian National Museum of Science & Technology (INMOST) (Iran)
• Indigenous Arctic Fish Skin: Material Cultural Preservation in the Digital Age
  Elisa Palomino – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (USA)

Moderator: Doris Wolfslehner

Moderator: Angela Galizia

Digital practice at TMW

1. Playful Collecting: The Software Archive and Collection – Nika Maltar
2. High-tech visualisation and popularisation: AR-supported APP-based technology – Walter Szevera
3. techLAB: The museum’s maker space – Christopher Roither
4. “Tech Made Easy!” Designing involving online courses for educators – Maria Maurer
5. The impact of digitalisation on exhibitions – Jürgen Öhlinger
6. Digital Leadership – TBD
7. Immersive Museum Spaces – Elisabeth Limbeck
8. Digitization, long-term archiving, and the use of AI in audiovisual archives – Marion Jaks, Stefan Kaltseis
9. Online workshops for people with dementia – (how) does it work? – Manuela Gallistl
10. Digital Literacy – Franziska Mühlbacher
11. Digital Dynamo: Navigating Social Media Opportunities and Challenges for Museums – Liisa Hättasch
12. “Women at Work”: More than an online exhibition – Carla Camilleri, Viktoria Calvo-Tomek, Lukas Scheibenpflug

Moderator: Riina Linna

1. Opening the meeting
2. Checking quorum
3. CIMUSET Annual report of activities in 2023
4. CIMUSET Financial situation of activities in 2023
5. Membership situation in 2023
6. Namechange – Discussion and introduction of the member questionnaire
7. Heads up! The next board elections take place in 2025
8. Towards Dubai 2025
   • Important dates!
   • What type of sessions Cimuset is asked to do
   • The Theme
9. Setting up working groups
   • Communications
   • Strategic planning: bylaws, election procedures, mission statement, etc.
   • Scientific committee for Dubai
10. Call for hosts 2026
11. NAMOK has initiated a particular interest group of aviation museums within Cimuset
12. Any other topics that come up from members

Online Collections.

• Are digital scientific collections collaborating for science communication?
  João Paulo Rodrigues dos Santos, Barbara Dias, Diego Vaz Bevilaqua* – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil)
• The specifics of the management of technical heritage collections and their online access. An example of the ongoing research project of the Technical Museum in Brno, Czech Republic
  Pavla Stöhrová*, Petra Mertová – Technical Museum in Brno (Czech Republic)
• Digitisation of collections in Slovak museums on the example of Slovak Technical Museum
  Jan Dolák, Ľuboš Kačírek, Lenka Vargová* – Slovak Technical Museum – Museum of Transport and Comenius University (Slovakia)

Moderator: Emily Gann

Virtual design

• Between Real and Virtual – Embodied Digitalization Design in Science Museum
  Lu Jingui, Huang Yaping, Zhang Na, Yang Yujuan* – Guangdong Science Center (China)
• Museum without Relics: A Case study of Establishment of Hue Digital Museum through Korea-Vietnam ODA Strategy
  Bae Seohyeun, Du Jieon, Kim Eunseo*, Ahn Jaehong – The Graduate School of Culture Technology, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)
• Digital and screenless: the compass and the explorers
  Anaïs Raynaud – Musée des Arts et Métiers (France)
• Collections and archives in the digital space
  Md. Touhidul Hassan – National Museum of Science and Technology Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Moderator: Markita Franulic

Moderator: Diego Vaz Bevilaqua