Traditional museum practices were developed for stable, physical artefacts. Today, museums work with digital media, data, and hybrid technologies that change quickly and circulate globally. Her research explores, among other things, the following questions:
- How can data, computing machines, and digital infrastructures be approached as emerging cultural heritage?
- How do digital tools reshape museum administration, collection management, research, education, and visitor engagement?
She currently leads research on how cultural history museums can contribute to school teaching through digital learning resources and educational programmes. The project investigates how museum and school practices change when heritage interpretation takes place in classrooms using digital materials produced both within and outside museums.
A previous project, In orbit: distributed curatorial agency when museum objects go online, examined what happens when digital versions of museum objects circulate on global platforms such as Pinterest, YouTube and Google. The project analysed how curation—selection, contextualisation, and presentation—unfolds when human meaning making intersects with algorithms, machine learning, the platform economy, and global technical and material infrastructures.
