Previous Research projects

• Remote Presence to Cultural Heritage Environments 2006-08
  
  The Remote Presence to Cultural Heritage Environments project (En tillgänglig forskningskulturmiljö) was funded 2006-2008 by the Swedish National Heritage Board. For more information, contact Leif Handberg, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Media Technology.
  
  The project addressed the potential for mediated communications for remote presence and access to cultural heritage sites and other environments which (for various reasons) may be inaccessible, difficult to access or where physical presence would require physical alterations risking damage to the original artefact. The project involves the development of prototypes and installations which allow people to remotely experience cultural environments as an alternative, or complement, to actual visits.
  
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• Pilot study 2008:
  A public archaeological excavation of the Stockholm Art and Industry and Fair 1897 (Publik arkeologisk undersökning av Stockholmsutställningen 1897)
  
  The 2008 pilot study for "a mediated museum" involved a public archaeological excavation of the Stockholm Art and Industry and Fair 1897, a project which received funding and support from the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Swedish Arts Council; the Royal Court of Sweden; the Museum of National Antiquities of Sweden; and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.
  
  In the study, the Museum of National Antiquities of Sweden was extended to an archaeological excavation site, thus allowing visitors to interact and to be guided remotely in real-time. Read more
  
  
Archaeologist for a day (Arkeolog för en dag) 2007

The project Archaeologist for a day consisted of a public archaeological excavation of the Museum of National Antiquities itself. The summer audience of 2007 was invited to take part in the excavation of the central courtyard of the museum. A great number of artefacts from the last 350 years, relating to the history of the area as well as of the museum, were found and collected. The project demonstrated the learning possibilities of involving people in the archaeological process as well as the limits to availability and public use of the collection database system.

• Public contract archaeology in Hjulsta (Publik arkeologi i Hjulsta) 2007
  
  The project Public contract archaeology explored the public relations of Swedish contract archaeology through the engagement of museum staff in a major archaeological project. Here, we worked with the otherwise seriously neglected contemporary and community dimensions of this type of project. A possible growing future general engagement with these dimensions will undoubtedly result in a very different archaeological system and different museum collections.
  
  
• Future memories (Framtidsminnen) 2007
  
  In the collection and exhibition project Future memories the public decided what was to be exhibited and collected. Their descriptions and ideas about the chosen artefacts were registered in the museum database. Such public involvement in creating a new part of a collection gives us a perspective on traditional museum practices and how we deal with exhibited archaeological objects. As it turned out, these personal reflections on memories, chosen for the future, influenced the perception of other exhibited objects and their histories in the museum. In addition, the project shed light on current collection practices, especially on the question of what was deliberately deposited in the past and what has been accumulated through unconscious processes.