Digitale visjoner. En kartlegging. Identitet, tilgjengelighet, og digitalt demokrati

As part of a Nordic Council funded collaboration between the DanishNationalmuseet and the Norwegian Kulturhistorisk museum, a mapping ofNordic museum intitutions’ approaches to the digital was undertaken. This articlepresents a section of the report, focusing on the grand ambitions of Nordic digitalapproaches, the challenges institutions are and have been facing in fulfilling theseambitions and finally, we point to the one part of Nordic digital initiatives thatrarely have received attention; that of the audience. In this article we show thatthe many challenges that Nordic digital ambitions suffer under have had the resultthat museum audiences have been largely ignored. We present Nordic digitalambitions, emphasising how the audiences in fact are central to these aspirations,and summarise the Nordic research currently available about our digital museumusers