Digital Storytelling in Museums to Revive Islamic Heritage in the Digital Museum: A Design Proposal

A digital museum is a museum exhibition platform that uses computer and information technology to conserve and present cultural treasures and historical collections in digital format. Today, new technologies and tools are being utilised in museums to enhance visitors' experience. Virtual 3D reconstructions of destroyed or disappeared cultural heritage enable viewers to effectively travel back through time and visualise monuments that cannot be physically seen anymore. A powerful way to convey information through three-dimensional geometry is to add interactive digital storytelling to virtual models, as storytelling has long been recognised as an important approach to attracting and pleasing the audience of museums. In this paper, we present a proposal for designing an interactive Islamic heritage digital museum using digital storytelling to revive the Islamic golden age in an immersive digital-physical experience enabling visitors to travel through time to an era that does not exist anymore. This paper explains the process of transforming literature review about Islamic heritage and the life of Muslim scholars during the Islamic golden ages into an interactive digital story that enable visitors to travel through time and immerse them in an interactive experience.