LOOKING AHEAD
2011-2017 PLAN
The Department For Museums
The Israeli Ministry of Culture
The Department for Museums
• 54 ‘Recognized Museums’ nation-wide
• Variety of objects and collections:
Art, Judaica, Archeology,
Ethnography, History and Heritage,
Technology, Science, Nature…
• National project of digitizing the
heritage
• Special budgets for preservation, QA
and security
The Typical Museum Seeks to
• Preserve and enhance its collections
• Improve the quality of cataloging
• Enrich its relevant knowledge base
• Attract target audience by exhibitions,
PR and virtual exhibitions
• Maximize the use of modern
technology for reaching its goals
Digitizing the Israeli Heritage
Goals
Products
• Electronic Catalogue
• MANA- Common platform for
• Digital Preservation
• Catalogue enrichment with photos,
cataloging and collections
management
videos and similar digital forms
• Membership of the
international cultural
community
Public engagement
• Europeana (Linked-Heritage)
• Linked vocabularies
• iMUS- The Israeli Museum Open
Portal (Europeans API, MANA
feeding tools)
Digitizing the Israeli Heritage
Digitizing the Heritage - Challenges
K Items to digit
(2012-2016)
K Items
Collection
108,200
311,905
Plastic Art
197,158
692,855
Archeology
30,912
45,322
Judaica
78,785
85,152
History and Heritage
462
378,250
Holocaust Memorizing
4,488
24,347
Ethnography
0
74,711
Science & Technology
410,005
1,612,542
Total