A Collection of Shortlisted Initiatives of the 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
Program (ICD-MUSE) is 104,732 EU. Fund by Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality is 27,000 EU.
Innovative aspect(s) of the initiative 1．Evolutionary innovations Wheras there isn’t any museum in many cities of Turkey and Europe, which present city memories, the ECMM is the first in Turkey, also with regard to its |The exhibition hall of Eskisehir city memory museum
technological infrastructure. The City Museum establishes a cultural bridge between the past and the present.
2．Characteristics The innovation in our Project is applied in the area of museology complying with technology. A new museum, the first in Turkey with its concept, is established in our city enriched with the accumulation of human history on the junction of the Silk Road on a geography that was the cradle of civilizations. The ECMM is a technological museum, where oral history interviews of important persons with regard to the history and culture of the city are presented on touch screens.
3．How the innovation is related to other experiences and parties In the field of Museology: ·There is the first and unique Glass Arts Museum of Turkey, established in 2007, in the ground floor of the ECMM, located within the City Museums Complex. In the field of International Projects: ·The Es-Kids Home Project is another Project funded with European Commission Grant. The experiences gained during the implementation of Es-Kids Home Project were benefited from. At the end of the Project, Es-Kids Home which is a preschool
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4．Obstacles or resistance In order to determine the concept of the museum to be established by Museums Grant Program, some researches were done. Ultimately, instead of exhibiting ethnographical or historical objects, it was decided to design a museum, which would adopt the idea of recording elements in a digital environment, which are specific to Eskisehir and have played a role in its development from the past to the present and displaying them through oral history studies on touch screens. Interviews to be displayed on touch screens in the museum are listed under 9 different themes: history, cultural heritage, culture and arts, ethnical culture, education, sports, economy, genetic heritage and my Eskisehir. Reaching persons who are experts in their subjects and communicating with them and their institutions objectively was the most faced obstacle. 100 persons were determined and each of them was visited by the Project team. Interviews with these persons were realized within a limited time.
Desired change or outcome and how it is measured
education institution rendering service to 40 economically disadvantaged children
1．Achievements
was established. This institution is still operating.
The ECMM is designed with a quite new concept by which elements that are
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