[Digital technologies and museum experiences]
introduction

"This themed issue on digital technologies and museum experiences illuminates ways in which museums increasingly take up and appropriate forms of communication beyond print, in particular technologies 'born' digital, such as the Internet, personal computers and mobile devices; but also – more generally – the way they make use of audiovisual media that are being digitised and thus can cross-fertilise with information and communication technologies (ict) and with telecommunication. As such, the issue adopts an inclusive definition of digital technologies across the digital domain of communication. Also, taken together the articles as a group adopt a rather inclusive definition of the term 'museum' so as to encompass, for example, science and experience centres, in addition to art galleries and museums featuring cultural and natural history. These inclusive definitions allow for analytical insights to be gained across traditional technological and institutional boundaries and point to commonalities and divergences of views, e.g., regarding audiences, the relations between online and offline content, and organisational challenges in meeting new demands with respect to technology, funding and objectives of existence." [Information des Anbieters]