What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation

09/08/2017

This article is part of our press review.

Contrary to media reports, Tristram Hunt says museum is “very passionate” about unlocking its collections online.

Tristram Hunt, the new director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, recently appeared to take an unlikely stand against the digitisation of museum collections. “Museums are rethinking the rush to digitise their collections amid concerns that such projects are costly and of little value,” wrote the Times newspaper, in a report on Hunt’s comments at the Hay Festival in Wales. Some may have assumed that Hunt, a historian specialised in 19th-century Britain and a former politician who had never before worked in a museum, had turned his back on 21st-century technology.

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Founder and Chief Editor of Culturecom Founder of The Arts Management Club I have worked for major content media, content and entertainment companies. Loving exhibits, I have always been interested about the organizations and the people behind the scenes. I also think that the arts shall be accessible to all, that is why I have published two books on the digital museum, at the Editions Le Manuscrit.