A Study on Actual Exposition Technologies Used in European Museums

Abstract

The museology is a science that accelerates using other disciplines, trying to achieve maximum utilization of the technology. And as one of the basic functions of this discipline, “exposition” has an ability of renewal that could fulfill the demands and expectations of young generations. In this study, the exposition function has been dealt with in connection with those new instruments acquired by the information societies to meet their needs. This study principally examines the “exposition technologies” used in the European museums in the past five years period (between 2012 and 2017). The study aims to discuss the current achievement of exposition technologies in the West by using the field research carried out in the museums of those countries whose territory remains within the continent in part or in whole and further attempts to emphasize the current facilities provided by these instruments to the information societies and determine the recent exhibitions organized which could be taken as a reference by the museums in our country (Turkey). In that line of discussion, first chapter refers to the transformation experienced by the museum exhibitions after 1980. Following the chapter touching the characteristics of the information societies and one of the recently popular generation classifications (X, Y and Z generations), data obtained through observation during field researches are presented. After the chapter providing the photos of expositions organized by the European museums between 2012 and 2017, a general evaluation is made. In this general evaluation made in the conclusion section of this study, determinations and deductions coinciding with the purposes of the research are made in the light of the data collected.