This website is part of a broader research project on the impact of COVID-19 on museum digital strategies being developed by Dr Chiara Zuanni at the University of Graz.
As such, the map constitutes a first pilot-study, offering an immediate overview of various digital initiatives launched by museums around the world. Given the exceptional times, we have decided to release this first visualisation of the dataset we are creating and working with.
We aim to expand and refine the dataset (you can contribute here), as well as add other possibilities for visualising and querying the data.

Read more about this project:

• Zuanni, Chiara. Digital responses from locked-down museums. Cultural Practice Magazine. Published 29.06.2020. Available here
• Melcher, Sabrina & Zuanni, Chiara. Mapping der digitalen Reaktionen von Museen während des Corona Lockdowns. Museumspraxis. Published 01.08.2020. Available here
• Melcher, Sabrina & Zuanni, Chiara. Eine Karte der digitalen Initiativen von Museen während COVID-19. ICOM Österreich.Published 30.07.2020. Available here
• Zuanni, Chiara. Mapping museum digital initiatives during COVID-19. Europeana Pro. Published 04.08.2020. Available here

The project has been reported in:

• Club Innovation Culture. Link
• Creatives Unite. Link
• European Heritage Tribune. Link
• Eve Museos e Innovación. Link
• Kozan. Link
• NEMO (Network of European Museum Organisations). Link
• RTBF Culture. Link
• TheStar. Link
• The Art Newspaper. Link
• TVB NEWS official. Link

If you have any question or comment, please do get in touch via email.

Dr Chiara Zuanni is a tenure-track assistant professor in digital humanities, museology-focused, at the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on museum data, digital engagement (esp. social media research) in the heritage sector, born-digital collections.