Art museum instructing system :

Abstract

Uganda is gifted with a lot of tourism places which include museums, wildlife and game parks; The Uganda Museum falls under the Depart of Antiquities and Museums in the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities [1]. It was established to conserve, promote and interpret Uganda's cultural and natural heritage through research collections, documentation and imparting knowledge for today and the future. According to a brochure supplied by the Museum, in addition to the materials in the galleries for public viewing, the museum keeps reserve collections of ethnographical, archeological, natural history, paleontological interest as well fine art for scholars to study. The Museum has an education service unit, with qualified staff called instructors who attend to visitors. The museum depends very much on the public, not just for patronage, but also for helping build up collections and in recording new discoveries. Offers of suitable specimens are always welcome [2]. In the museum, instructors avail information to people however as time goes on they get tired mostly on busy days. The work in this report includes the steps and procedures that were taken in the design and implementation of an Art Museum Instructing System. The system should provide information to tourists directly once they enter the museum while using their pads, the following methods were used to get information in the research: interviews were used to obtain people’s views on the proposed project and to help determine the requirements needed, Consultations and Questionnaires. The Art Museum Instructing System is cheap, reliable and enables tourists to access information about the different artifacts. The work is arranged in mainly in six chapters, Chapter one includes the introduction of Art Museum Instructing system. Chapter two shows the literature view of the system in relation to the existing systems. Chapter 3 illustrates the methods employed in the whole research process and coming up of the working prototype of the system. The methods included in this research include interviews, consultations and questionnaires. Chapter 4 includes requirements analysis and system design, functional and non-functional requirements. This chapter goes on to show the system design which involves diagrams like user case diagram and systematic diagram. Chapter 5 talks about the implementation of a real system and its testing. Finally chapter six contains recommendations and the summary of this report.