So of course it is not tomorrow that things will change, that the Louvre, the MoMA in New York, the British Museum or even the Vatican Museum will disappear or will even have to worry about their attendance. Far from it, but the fact is that times change and so do generations in their expectations of discoveries, if not even more broadly of life, compared to previous ones….
Live and feel new experiences
To the point that some are considering a future change for this new public for museums and even tourism more broadly (but that’s another story).
In short, it could be that apart from “a few global must-haves”, the interest of museums lies more in a few years from now in the real and especially virtual experience that they will be able to provide to their visitors than in the works or collections that they will exhibit.
Between metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality and other technological innovations of our 21st centurye century, an increasingly large young audience seems to be waiting for new experiences.
Those which transport you to the heart of the works, their history or even beyond, and in which you can occasionally also put yourself on stage. All this with a playful side, if not inspired by the video games of our time…
So of course it has already started with these selfies that some people take at the slightest opportunity, but also increasingly with these QR Codes to scan which open up new horizons for us via our screens. Plus of course also these virtual reality headsets which could become widespread so that everyone, impervious to the presence of other visitors (a means of combating the overcrowding of certain places?), then finds themselves transported via their digital me towards parallel worlds more or less related to the works presented.
Pure fiction is all this? Not necessarily since some are already working there to offer us the museum or exhibition of tomorrow.
Moreover, not long ago we told you about this new interactive, immersive and sensory museum which has just opened its doors in New York. This “Mercer Labs: Museum of Art and Technology” which aims to redefine the museum experience by offering the public the opportunity to interact with the works presented.
For, as they say, “revisiting the connections between art and technology for exhibitions that address the challenges and possibilities that technology has opened up for art and what it means to live in the digital age. The use of digital tools and artificial intelligence to challenge human perception…”. Perhaps there, the definition of the museum of tomorrow. Who knows…
