
MuseumDigit 2019
224 attendees, 10 foreign and 12 Hungarian speakers, 9 participants of the round table discussion and 14 exhibitor partners joined to MuseumDigit 2019, which took place in the Hungarian National Museum, 26-27 November. Besides the well-known topics, this year we also had some novelties:
- VR, AR and AI in museums: algorithms and neural networks, user-friendly chatbots, emotional analysis and experience design
- Big Data in museum projects
- Digital technology and digital memory
- Inclusive museums: reframing difference and disability
- Museums of the 21st century: transformative, innovative projects from the Hungarian and international museum scene
- Successful digital and digitisation strategies
On the +1 day, we closed the conference with “Phase One Digitization and Scientific Imaging 2019” workshop.

Prof. dr. Jerzy GAWRONSKI
Professor of Archaeology, University of Amsterdam
Alexandre MATOS
museologist, Mu.SA Project Manager, ICOM Portugal
LOBODA Zoltán
Senior policy analyst, Center for Digital Pedagogy and Methodology
KÓMÁR Éva
Digitization and Content Development Group Leader, Hungarian National Museum - National Centre of Museological Methodology and Information
Angie JUDGE
Big Data expert, Dexibit
Jean-François THULL
Director, Curator, Royal City of Loches
RÉPÁSZKY Lipót
Head of Department, Department of Archives, MTVA
Dr. GYIRES-TÓTH Bálint
Senior Lecturer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
MIKLÓS Ferenc
Collection Manager, Kiskőrös Road Museum
SZÁVAI Gyula
Territory Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba
VESZELOVSZKI Péter
Presales Consultant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba
Marie-Clarté O’NEILL
museologist, museum educator, President of ICOM CECA (Committee for Education and Cultural Action)
Maria Chiara CIACCHERI
Independent museum consultant, expert on accessibility and interpretation practices
Ece ÖZDIL
designer, founder of Jüniör
FARKASNÉ Dr. GÖNCZI Rita
university lecturer, Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Non-Profi t Ltd.
MINKÓ Mihály
Expert in Data Visualization, ComNest Ltd.
SZ. FEJES Ildikó
Head of Department, Hungarian National Museum - National Centre of Museological Methodology and Information
Laurien DE GELDER
Curator, Allard Pierson
Karolina BADZMIEROWSKA
Heritage Account Manager, Noho
Eric JOAKIM
Phase One
Dr. CSORBA Gábor
Deputy Director General for National and International Scientifi c Relations, Research and Collection at the Hungarian Museum of Natural Sciences
CSORDÁS Izabella
Coach, Trainer, Expert in mental health and organizational development
Jerzy Gawronski: A dive into history: an extraordinary museum below the surface
An extraordinary museum lies hidden under the busy centre of Amsterdam which visitors can view with a metro ticket. With the extension of the underground line, some 700,000 objects were unearthed
...Alexandre Matos: Digital skills for change and innovation: Mu.SA project goals and insights
What do museum professionals need to thrive in a digital environment? How can museum professionals be equipped with skill-sets responding to thesee ever-changing needs of society? What are the
...Zoltán Loboda: Why digital competence matters: the development and application of the Competence Framework
Digitalisation is one of the determining factors of competitiveness, and the success of digital competence development ensures that Hungary is one of the winners of the digital transformation.
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Zoltán Loboda: Why digital competence matters: the development and application of the Competence Framework (2)
Digitalisation is one of the determining factors of competitiveness, and the success of digital competence development ensures that Hungary is one of the winners of the digital transformation.
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Éva Kómár: MyMuseumap: Access For All
Access to digital cultural heritage content is a growing need in the creative society. The MuseuMap service, operated by the National Museum’s National Centre of Museological Methodology and
...Angie Judge: AI and the future of museums
AI has rapidly become a part of our everyday lives – from ordering an Uber or suggesting our next Netflix binge. It’s now creating smarter, engaging and dynamic museums. From visitor facing
...Jean-François Thull: A new way of understanding public knowledge: the example of the dungeon of Loches
Royal City of Loches is one of Europe’s most imposing dungeons of its time, and it’s also one of the best conserved. A masterpiece of medieval military architecture, it was converted into a royal
...Lipót Répászky: The many faces one person can have: learning algorithms in the archive
The MTVA’s National Audiovisual Archive holds 13 million photo negatives and 8 million radio magnetic tapes, in addition to some 20 million prints. It would take decades to process and tag these
...Bálint Gyires-Tóth: Possibilities and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
With the explosive growth of data, the significant technological advances in graphics processors, and the new advances in science, Artificial Intelligence (MI) research and development has
...Gyula Szávai, Ferenc Miklós, Péter Veszelovszki: Smart museums, smart museologists: interactive presentation
Our world has undergone spectacular and significant changes in the last 10 years which poses a major challenge for all of us. What makes a museum smart? The talk highlights the changes and
...Marie-Clarté O’Neill:How can digital support museum education?
As President of ICOM CECA, Ms O’Neill presents «The CECA Best Practice Tool» as a proposal for developing museum education internationally. Some aspects of this tool could help to implement
...Maria Chiara Ciaccheri: Accessibility is the future: how to deal with it in museums?
Accessibility is an interdisciplinary concept that gives museums the opportunity to be inclusive and, consequently, more relevant. The potential offered by this area is much wider than the
...Ece Özdil: Embracing diversity in museum’s world: a discovery into emphatic and systemic competencies of design
Inclusivity is a big challenge for the museum’s world: It’s about embracing the diversity that requires cultural institutions to bridge their top-down leadership decisions —which mostly works
...Rita Gönczi Dr. Farkasné: Inclusion and beyond: equal access in the cultural sector
What makes a museum inclusive? Does unobstructed access directly mean equal access? The presentation aims to point out the importance of inclusion and to introduce the basis of easily
...Rita Gönczi Dr. Farkasné: Inclusion and beyond: equal access in the cultural sector (2)
What makes a museum inclusive? Does unobstructed access directly mean equal access? The presentation aims to point out the importance of inclusion and to introduce the basis of easily
...Mihály Minkó: Information is beautiful: data visualisation in museum spaces
Interactive installations displaying spectacular digital content are becoming an essential part of modern museums. The talk’s focus is on the meeting of museums and data visualisation: where and
...Ildikó Sz. Fejes: Visibility, interpretation, analysis: visualized data and what is behind it
Only what we see can be interpreted and analyzed, which is why data visualization aids the overview, interpretation and analysis of large amounts of data. Technological advances are continually
...Laurien de Gelder, Karolina Badzmierowska: Travelling through the Middle Ages: the Cross Culture Timeline in the Allard Pierson
A beautiful bronze incense burner from Egypt and a shining golden sword from the National Museum in Budapest. What do they have in common? Find out using the Cross Culture Timeline. The Cross
...Eric Joakim: Making the invisible visible: Development in Multispectral Imaging and technical photography
How can we restore the readability of a damaged document? How is it possible to make the invisible visible, to see the tiniest details and material destination of an object? Phase One’s new
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