About

DHC

Digital Heritage Center offers services and products that support innovation in digital cultural heritage. The center is a spin-off from a research studio at the Interactive Institute Swedish ICT in Stockholm, Sweden established in 1999. We collaborate with a large network of researchers, SMEs, governmental agencies, academia, museums, science centers, regional and national heritage boards, libraries and other memory institutions in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

 

Objectives

  • Foster innovation in museums and cultural heritage organizations;
  • Bridge the gap between professionals and researchers in cultural heritage, technology sector and the creative industries;
  • Transfer knowledge and share best practices concerning the usage of new technology for cultural heritage;
  • Develop regional expertise centers in digital cultural heritage.

 

Highlighted Past Projects

  • Experimental Lab- New interfaces for innovative communication with visitors;
  • Research methodologies in prototyping new concepts for museums;
  • The Visitor Study Lab — a lab to assess visitor interaction patterns at exhibitions;
  • Interactive Salon — an international ambulating exhibition showcasing innovative technologies and concepts for communication with visitors in different museum environments;
  • Know-how books — a series of publications to facilitate knowledge transfer from Research to Practice, from academics and creative professionals to museum practitioners;
  • NODEM (Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums) (link to NODEM) — an international conference series focused on the implementation of digital media in sites of cultural experience;
  • Digital Intangible Heritage of Asia (DIHA) — a research cluster in Asia to connect intangible and tangible heritage through digital media;
  • NODEM Digital Repository — an online platform which preserves and freely shares a number of projects, study cases and novel ideas from academics, researchers and museum practitioners in the context of innovating the cultural heritage field.