From Local to Global with Online Museum: Sirindhorn Wararam Phuprao Temple in Museum Pool

Abstract

            The study aims to enhance the body of knowledge for creating an electronic museum for a local attraction and a museum tour route for the community during COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Thailand.  The site, Sirindhorn Wararam Phuprao Temple, was purposively sampled as it is the center of the Glowing City in Sirindhorn district, the borderline of the province.  After the researcher were trained to manage Museum Pool, the data was collected in three different forms: information, pictures, and videos.  The research instruments were semi-structured in depth-interview, documentary, and photography. The interviewers were the abbot, the artist, and three local people collaborating with the temple. The results were 30 exhibitable objects with pictures and information both general and local one. The information was transcribed into three languages: Thai, English, and Esan dialect. Additionally, videos were crated to depict the museum and the community.  The exhibition can be viewed via website, application, and QR codes for free.  In brief, Museum Pool can be a meaningful application supporting e-tourism during COVID-19; also, another way of information retrieval. More local museums created and managed by local people should be researched and exhibited as meta data promoting tourism in the project site so that the application will be fully beneficial for the country and global citizens.