Pille Runnel
Dr Pille Runnel works as a research director of the Estonian National Museum. She is responsible for the research agenda of the Estonian National Museum and was supervising the production of new research-based permanent exhibitions of the Museum (opened at 2016). She has participated in a number of international studies and academic research projects in the area of information society development, user and audience studies and more lately digital cultural heritage, datafication and societal impact of the cultural sector. Ongoing research projects: Data Conversations for impact: opportunities and challenges of data and AI in supporting the impact in cultural sector (2025-2027); Identifying, linking and analysing cultural, environmental and economic issues in Estonian Public Broadcasting content (2025-2026); Digital cultural heritage as a resource for social development (2024-2026); I-game: Building a community for the co-creation of games with high impact on innovation, sustainability, social cohesion and growth (2024-2026).
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the main finding of this article is that a family is strong when
the family members collaborate. While our discussion has been
limited to how both institutions manage their audiences by examining
all the stages of the visitor journey, collaboration should go
beyond that since the boundaries between visitor centres and
museums are anything but sharp. Arguably, some general trends
are relevant to both types of institutions. While visitor centres are
more strongly related to a specific place (site), museums are much
more flexible in terms of their location. Nevertheless, both institutions
share a need to adapt and restructure in line with changing
contexts and a changing environment, such as moving from
an analogue to a digital/analogue world that is connected to a variety
of digital tools.In some debates, visitor centres have been perceived as major competitors to existing museums, but if their different objectives
and scope are considered, they show enormous potential for cooperation
and knowledge transfers.
The last section of the book Hopeless Youth!, 'Post Scriptum' involves three short pieces, bringing together an insight into the background, starting points and development of this exhibition along with two short case studies from a longer list of topics regarding the urban lifeworlds of youth and kids, the exhibition was exploring.
from the outbreak of hostilities in the Second World War the country suffered the loss of a significant portion of its ethnic population through emigration and deportation, only to have it replaced by Soviet migrants and military units. For the majority of ethnic Estonians much of the twentieth century was an immensely traumatic experience and with the restoration of independence in 1991 came the hope that the nation might pick up from where it left off more than fifty years before. This chapter concerns the Estonian National Museum which was created as a part of the national movement in 1909 and which then established itself as an important symbol of national memory and identity. In the early 1990s, in the ‘period of national awakening’ when the country underwent major reform, there developed the idea of building a new Estonian National Museum. It arose in that period of hope and ideals, which straddled the moment when independence returned, but it soon found itself locked in a period of pragmatism and economic reality (Runnel et al. 2009).
Indeed, with large-scale economic turmoil sweeping Europe in 2009, doubts and questions began to emerge concerning the future of the project to build the museum and the value of a national museum to modern Estonian society.
The study is part of EU Kids Online research project. EU Kids Online research has shown that the internet usage of children in Europe involves constant negotiation of opportunities and risks, which if well balanced will contribute to a meaningful life, a valued identity and satisfactory relations with others.
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the main finding of this article is that a family is strong when
the family members collaborate. While our discussion has been
limited to how both institutions manage their audiences by examining
all the stages of the visitor journey, collaboration should go
beyond that since the boundaries between visitor centres and
museums are anything but sharp. Arguably, some general trends
are relevant to both types of institutions. While visitor centres are
more strongly related to a specific place (site), museums are much
more flexible in terms of their location. Nevertheless, both institutions
share a need to adapt and restructure in line with changing
contexts and a changing environment, such as moving from
an analogue to a digital/analogue world that is connected to a variety
of digital tools.In some debates, visitor centres have been perceived as major competitors to existing museums, but if their different objectives
and scope are considered, they show enormous potential for cooperation
and knowledge transfers.
The last section of the book Hopeless Youth!, 'Post Scriptum' involves three short pieces, bringing together an insight into the background, starting points and development of this exhibition along with two short case studies from a longer list of topics regarding the urban lifeworlds of youth and kids, the exhibition was exploring.
from the outbreak of hostilities in the Second World War the country suffered the loss of a significant portion of its ethnic population through emigration and deportation, only to have it replaced by Soviet migrants and military units. For the majority of ethnic Estonians much of the twentieth century was an immensely traumatic experience and with the restoration of independence in 1991 came the hope that the nation might pick up from where it left off more than fifty years before. This chapter concerns the Estonian National Museum which was created as a part of the national movement in 1909 and which then established itself as an important symbol of national memory and identity. In the early 1990s, in the ‘period of national awakening’ when the country underwent major reform, there developed the idea of building a new Estonian National Museum. It arose in that period of hope and ideals, which straddled the moment when independence returned, but it soon found itself locked in a period of pragmatism and economic reality (Runnel et al. 2009).
Indeed, with large-scale economic turmoil sweeping Europe in 2009, doubts and questions began to emerge concerning the future of the project to build the museum and the value of a national museum to modern Estonian society.
The study is part of EU Kids Online research project. EU Kids Online research has shown that the internet usage of children in Europe involves constant negotiation of opportunities and risks, which if well balanced will contribute to a meaningful life, a valued identity and satisfactory relations with others.
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