Archive and Archiving in the Digital Era: a new perspective for using Museums Archive

Abstract

Archival material has to be exhibited for a visitor who seeks to be given the means for an independent way to interpret the exhibition.Exhibit of archival materials not only show what repository collects, preserves, and makes available to users, but also they have the potential to educate, communicate, and serve a variety of other functions. They can encourage people to study the past and to save and donate items of historical interest; teach them something about the nature of archival work; inform them of new acquisition; tell an interesting story; commemorate an important event and make a major contribution to scholarship. The material that any institution leaves behind e.g. – documents, photographs, objects or diaries – mostly just gather dust in the storage of institutions. They have been bequeathed to these institutions for safekeeping and to provide the researchers with valuable sources. Our time is in need of new modes to relate to artifact. So, it seems imperative to also change the way exhibitions are made and archival material is included and treated.Accordingly, this paper will examine how can archival material be presented in a way that it makes sense to and meets the needs of the visitor to allow for new perspectives in interpreting the artifact? The main target is to encourage museums to preserve their historically valuable records. The archivist should consider going out into the community to meet with local groups to talk about the history of the museum. The principal aim of archives is not only to acquire, professionally process and make available archival documents for public or private purposes, but also to carry out preservation and conservation in order to keep valuable information and heritage for an indefinite period.