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Following some museum related papers presented at the conference, the panel discussed the challenges of IT museum projects in different Nordic countries. The panel provided examples on individual museum projects as well as university based models and IT related exhibitions in regional museum institution. The panel focused on questions on preserving and presenting hardware and software as well as financial issues of museum projects, and the paper introduces shortly the discussion between the panelists and the audience.
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Suominen, J., Antila, K., Blom, P., Nordal, O., Penninkangas, O. (2009). IT Museums and Related Projects in the Nordic Countries. In: Impagliazzo, J., Järvi, T., Paju, P. (eds) History of Nordic Computing 2. HiNC 2007. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03757-3_31
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