About
Digital Museum of Australia Limited -
Digital Museum of Australia Limited is currently
under development in partnership with Matilda Media and will soon commence
operations as a non-profit online conservatory for Australia's historical
artifacts, artworks and cultural history. The Digital Museum of Australia shall
operate as the digitization specialist among Australia’s national and state
museums, galleries and archives, undertaking a specific national initiative to
digitize Australia’s cultural history.
The initiative will scan artifacts and artworks in
3D, digitize video and audio recordings, ingest architectural drawings, digitize photographs, slides, tapes and store data from
websites. The Digital Museum of Australia is being developed pursuant to a
Production Agreement with Matilda Media with its first project proposed as
three-dimensional imaging and digitization of the Natural History Museum,
London's "New South Wales Collection".
The Digital Museum of Australia is intended to
become a definitive digital conservatory of Australian museum
artifacts, historical architectural drawings and recorded cultural
history. The Museum is intended as an online education and history resource
accessible to all Australians from any internet device. The Digital Museum of
Australia is currently establishing partnerships with leading museums and
galleries around the world for access to their collections.
Objectives
of the Digital Museum of Australia Limited:
1) To advance, preserve and promote
Australian arts and culture including literature, music, performing arts,
visual arts, crafts, design, architecture, film, video, television, radio,
community arts, Aboriginal arts and other cultural heritage on a non-profit
basis through digital media.
2) To develop, establish and operate a
digital museum of the history of Australia, a definitive archive and conservatory
for online access to historical artifacts and materials which shall be made
available to the public on a not-for-profit basis in perpetuity.
3) To strive to increase the
accessibility and produce and publish interactive and other media related to the
Museum’s virtual collection with the objective to increase interest in and
understanding of Australian history by Australian citizens with a specific
focus on school students.
4) To build at such time as the Trustees
consider there are sufficient resources for at hand to provide for
establishment and the long term sustainability, a physical home for the Museum
that would its secretariat and be open to the public, offering a showcase of
its collection as an augmented reality experience.
Trustees
of the Digital Museum of Australia Limited:
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Alexander Hartman (Chairman)
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Eric Willmot AM
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David Liddiard
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Katherine Keating
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Peter Scarf
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The Hon. Christopher Pyne
Executives
of the Digital Museum of Australia Limited:
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Timothy Holborn
(Honorary Curator)
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