Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online

Bodil Axelsson is Professor of Cultural Heritage at Linköping University, Sweden. She researches across the fields of critical heritage studies, digital media and museology, and has led and coordinated a series of research projects within these fields. Fiona R. Cameron is Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Contemporary Museologies at the Institue for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.Katherine Hauptman is Director at the Swedish History Museum and holds a Ph.D. in Archeology. She has a wide portfolio of experience in museum studies, education, governmental assignments and exhibition production. Hauptman has published books on Nordic and public archeology, heritage studies including gender perspectives, the uses of history and inclusive museums. Sheenagh Pietrobruno is Associate Professor of Social Communication at Saint Paul University/University of Ottawa, Canada. She has held fellowships in England, Canada, Sweden and Austria in media, performance, and heritage research. European Commission (2019) and G20 Italian Presidency (2021) invitations to present her pioneering work in digital (intangible) heritage have impacted policy.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Curatorial Challenges: discussion forums and fragmented narratives.- 3. Tales of the Viking Helmet: Narrative Shifts from Museum Exhibitions to Personalised Search Requests.- 4. Viking Jewellery on Pinterest: Drifting digitisations and shared curatorial agency.- 5. Technospheric curation and the Swedish Allah ring: Refiguring digitisations and curatorial agency as ecological compositions, and eco-curating as planetary inhabitations.- 6. Conclusion