Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections / quote 3 of 8
Beyond zapping through museum collections
In our case, we are dealing with the question of how museums can present the specific information that belongs to objects in their collection in a way that strengthens users’ historical understanding and involvement in relevant historical debates. We are also ask- ing ourselves how we can prevent users from ending up perusing the collection in a zapping-like, incidence-based viewing that will only lead to a confirmation of his or her preconceived views and insights as no relations between objects are presented that are novel or surprising to the user.