Differences and connections between digital museums

Digital museum is to turn the whole museum environment into a three-dimensional model. Visitors can visit the virtual museum at will, watch the 3D simulation display of various collections in the museum, and view the relevant information of various collections. Through database retrieval, you can consult the statistical information of various collections in the museum.

Digital museums are not limited to the existing physical exhibition halls, and are basically divided into two categories in application. First, the unfinished exhibition hall contains material (cultural relics restoration) and intangible (social science and humanities); Second, the established museums, combined with the Internet, realize online popular science propaganda. With the development and application of Internet of Things technology, the space that digital museums can extend is broader.

Differences and connections with physical museums

Although the digital museum has only been explored and developed for 20 years in China, it has had a great impact on traditional museums with the support of strong network technology. Whether digital museum should replace or weaken the function of traditional museum, or promote its development, how traditional museum will face the changes brought by digital museum, and what kind of relationship between digital museum and traditional museum is another important problem that needs to be faced after clarifying the concept of digital museum. Otherwise, the construction of digital museum will lose its momentum and direction.

In addition to the lack of some characteristics of physical museums, digital museums also have the problem of limited service life of digital information storage carriers; Digitally stored information is easily disturbed and destroyed by external forces (magnetic field, computer virus, hacker intrusion, etc.). ); Digital information is easy to download and copy, and intellectual property rights are difficult to protect. Physical museums, on the other hand, do not have the characteristics of digital museums, and also have some shortcomings, such as limited exhibition space, long replacement period of exhibition content, single exhibition means, poor interaction and difficulty in communicating with the audience.

Compared with physical museums, "digital museums have the characteristics of virtualization of information entities, digitalization of information resources, networking of information transmission, enjoyment of information utilization, intelligence of information provision and diversification of information display". Here, the most important thing is the virtualization of information entities, that is, all the activities of digital museums are virtual manifestations of the working functions of physical museums, which are based on physical museums and act on physical museums in turn, which is the expansion and extension of the functions of physical museums.