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Museums and Digital Confidence: Organisation, Collection, Interface book cover

1st Edition

Museums and Digital Confidence Organisation, Collection, Interface

Edited By Ross Parry, Vince Dziekan, Karin de Wild Copyright 2026
176 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums. It interrogates the skills, literacies, and mindsets that can support the use of digital technologies within these institutions. It also reflects on why digital adoption has faltered (at times), why digital continues to matter, and how the digital museum may flourish into the future. Underscored by... Read more

Foreword: Leading Digital Confidence in the Post-digital Museum

Carolyn Royston

 

Introduction: Museums and Digital Confidence

Ross Parry, Vince Dziekan and Karin De Wild

 

PART I

Organisation

1. Contextual, Holistic, and Purposeful: A Re-framing of Digital Skills for Museums

Ross Parry, Vince Dziekan and Karin De Wild

2. How to lead in a digitally distributed museum

Kati Price and Dafydd James

3. Digital Labour is Emotional Labour

Sophie Frost

 

PART II

Collection

4. Knowledge and skills for digital curation

Joyce Ray

5. The Paths to Digital Transformation

Anra Kennedy, Harry Verwayen and Beth Daley

6. Can we be confident about heritage and humanities data?

Dominic Oldman

 

PART III

Interface

7. Whose Production House of Culture? Re-examining curatorial practice in the distributed museum

Nancy Proctor

8. Curatorial Confidence: Balancing caring for the needs of artworks and the needs of audiences in our time of digital technology overload

Sarah Cook

9. Postdigitality and Museum Confidences: Reflecting upon Jaad Kuujus’s Wrapped in the Cloud

Kate Hennessy and Hannah Turner

Biography

Ross Parry is Professor of Museum Technology and founding director of the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Vince Dziekan is a senior academic and practitioner-researcher at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and an honorary research fellow with the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Karin de Wild is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

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