Museum digitises Indigenous cultural material

The South Australian Museum is using digital technology to give remote communities greater access to its Aboriginal Material Culture Collection.

Museum digitises Indigenous cultural materialMuseum digitises Indigenous cultural material

Museum digitises Indigenous cultural material

Digital technology is being used by the South Australian Museum to allow remote Aboriginal communities greater access to its Aboriginal Material Culture Collection.

 

The collection includes between 30 and 40-thousand artefacts and millions of objects, some of them tiny, from archaeological sites across Australia.

 

The digitisation project will see tens of thousands of objects recorded and photographed and placed into a digital database that can be accessed by people around the world.

 

Museum Anthropologist Professor Peter Sutton spoke to Peggy Giakoumelos about the collection.


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