The Long Way Towards Digitization

Digital transformation (or digitization) of museum heritage is a process that has increasingly spread in recent years and necessarily in the last two years due to the restrictions deriving from the pandemic. The interest in digitization has its first roots mostly in the last decade when the Smithsonian announced the planning of a project for the digitization of artworks; the project was launched at the end of 2013 with the implementation of some of the most sophisticated technologies to digitize 20,000 art objects, namely the ones considered essential in the collection of approximately 14 million artworks at Smithsonian. With this project, the leaders of the US museum offered a vision of the future of museum experience that only recently has begun to show its effects in countless initiatives.