Possibilities and subjects of digital archives on museum education under COVID-19 situation - in case of Osaka Museum of Natural History -

Abstract

Under the COVID-19 situation, museum activities on the internet have boosted up in amounts of contents and in the range of diversity. Digital Archives are also promoted and utilized for publicizing of storage collections, research papers, in many museums. In this paper, digital archiving of educational activities of museums were focused, describing the case of Osaka Museum of Natural history as an example. The forms of streaming are selected by types of education activities for better communication, and we found some advantages and limitations for online educations. Some of the limitation can be improved by additional activities. The benefits of contents archiving of museum educational movies are also discussed.