Joanna Iranowska- PhD in Museum Studies and Cultural History
- Senior Conservator NMF / Photo Archivist at MiA - Museums in Akershus
Joanna Iranowska
- PhD in Museum Studies and Cultural History
- Senior Conservator NMF / Photo Archivist at MiA - Museums in Akershus
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Introduction
I am museologist and digital humanist, especially interested in how digital tools can enable keeping museum collections up to date for the young generation. I have first hand experience of working with collection digitization from Musums in Akershus and the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. I hold a PhD from the University of Oslo. Currently I work with developing of a new digital interprative media for Norwegian museums at MiA. Read more at www.joannairanowska.com.
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Current institution
MiA - Museums in Akershus
Current position
- Senior Conservator NMF / Photo Archivist
Publications
Publications (6)
As digital media change our society, museums are trying to rethink their mission and benefit from the possibilities digital tools afford. First, this article provides a historical background for the development of mobile apps as digital interpretive media in Norwegian museums between 2005 and 2020. Second, it analyses a specific case – the app Kuns...
The contemporary museum is a world of image making — the influence of digital reproduction on the role of museums as cultural institutions has been profound. Between 2012 and 2015, I worked as a research assistant on the project Edvard Munch’s Writings, and the omnipresence of copying and digitization in an art museum has fascinated me since then....
Digital technology and Internet access have created new possibilities for museums and archives for digitization of their collections. Steadily, more museums are experimenting with inviting their audiences to participate in tagging images, annotating, transcribing historical texts or cropping photographs. This article is an exploration of visual and...
The red and black stripes are a recurring pattern reproduced on tote bags, pencils, mugs and coffee cups, notebooks, tickets and museum friends’ association club cards – all to be purchased in the Munch Museum store in Oslo, Norway. The pattern refers back to one of Edvard Munch’s late self-portraits, Between the Clock and the Bed (1940–43), in whi...
In this project, the overall ambition is to uncover, describe and analyse the museum practice of visual copying in art museums. The overarching research questions are: what is the ontology of copies of museum objects manufactured with digital methods? And, why and how are the new images made and brought to life? The perspective presented in this di...
Paintings in museums might occasionally be replaced by a photoprint mimicking the original. This article is an investigation of what constitutes a good reproduction of an artwork (oil painting) that is meant to be displayed. The article discusses what the usefulness of reproductions depends on, applying the Valuation Studies approach, which means t...
