Yunting Mu1*, Meijun Shen2, Maochi Pei2

1.Guangzhou Nanfang College; 2.Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Abstract：

Against the backdrop of the global digital wave and the upgrading of cultural consumption towards immersive experience, museums as core carriers of cultural inheritance need to address the era specific task of activating static cultural relics. Traditional exhibitions are limited by time, space, and forms of interaction, making it difficult to meet the public’s deep cultural needs. However digital collections empowered by technology have become a key breakthrough for the digital transformation of museums. Among these technologies XR technology with its characteristics of immersive scene construction real time interactive feedback and virtual real integrated presentation has opened a new path for the development of digital collections. This paper takes the Palace Museum as the research object and combines its projects such as the Digital Cultural Relic Library, Forbidden City Vientiane XR Digital Touring Exhibition and Cheers the Palace Museum Digital Collections to sort out the integration path of XR technology and digital collections using the case analysis method. The study finds that the Palace Museum has realized the issuance and certification of digital collections through digital technology forming official assets secondary creation multi-platform distribution model and explored the culture plus technology plus business path. The current practice faces challenges such as high technical costs difficulties in digital copyright protection and market speculation risks. In the future it is necessary to rely on 5G and AI to break through modeling bottlenecks establish industry standards to regulate the market deepen the excavation of cultural content and promote cross-border cooperation through the International Museum Digital Alliance. This will provide references for the digital transformation of museums and help realize the creative transformation and innovative development of cultural heritage in the digital age.

Key Words：

XR technology; museum digital collections; the palace museum; virtual real integration; digitalization of cultural heritage