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The project will produce a digital exhibition planning platform where AI will search museums' materials for common themes that can be used in joint exhibitions. The goal of the project is to support the collaboration between museums, to digitize exhibition planning from start to finish and, above all, to gain new insights into the possibilities of AI in exhibition planning. During the project period, we will also develop EODEM-compatible support for the process of lending digital art.

The project will include plans for a pilot exhibition about the ocean for two museums that use Collecte. The partial digitization of the nautical charts of the John Nurminen Foundation and training AI with the resulting material will also be a part of the project. A major part of the project is gathering information about the requirements for an exhibition planning platform.

Schedule

The project started in May 2024 and will run until July 2025. 

Join us our webinar in March! More information coming at the beginning of the year 2025. 

Status of the project 

The funding decision was received in July 2024. The development of the planning platform has started, and at the end of October, we held a service design workshop where we clarified the goals for the collaborative planning platform. Experts from five museums took part in the workshop. Thank you for attending!
The digitization of the map collection of the John Nurminen Foundation will start at the end of this year. Planning the pilot exhibition will start at the beginning of the next year. The John Nurminen Foundation is looking for partners for the exhibition. 

Background of the funding

The Ministry of Education and Culture has granted the project NextGenerationEU funding from the European Union. You can read more about the structural renewal support for cultural and creative industires on the ministry website (in Finnish). The official name of the project is A digital, AI-aided exhibition planning platform for the collaborative use by museums, archives and foundations. We gave it a shorter name: "AiAiSea".