Dr. Isabella Hodgson

”My dream is to network the analogue and digital offering for all target groups. I want our guests to have a participatory, interactive and inclusive museum experience and to discover the exhibitions both from home and on site with us.“ 

Dr. Isabella Hodgson, Digital Curator

About the person

Isabella Hodgson has been working as a digital curator at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven since November 2020. At the museum, she focuses on the digital aspects of education, participation and inclusion.

She studied Classical Archaeology, History and Mineralogy at the University of Würzburg and subsequently completed her PhD in Classical Archaeology at the University of Bonn. This involved longer research stays in Greece and Italy. As a research assistant in an archaeological database project at the University of Cologne, she worked on how knowledge can be made accessible online. Digitization from 3D acquisition to network infrastructures was her main focus during a traineeship at the Hetjens - Deutsches Keramikmuseum. She is now working on various digital historico-cultural mediation and exhibition projects at the German Maritime Museum.

Current research projects

• Museum experiences without barriers (Digital inclusion project)
• Schau mir in die Karten (Interactive crowdmapping project)
• 3D infrastructure for the lively presentation of museum collection objects
• Depot Digital (Online collection of the German Maritime Museum)
• Mining. Abbau der Zukunft (Online platform on the topic of mining)