About Dr. Ofra Keinan – the creator of the venture Make-MymuseuM.com
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Dear visitor,
It started with my grandfather, grandpa Avraham. Ever since my childhood I loved to sit on his lap and listen to his fascinating stories about the long-past years in Odessa, to play with his thick beard and ask: how did you arrive in Israel?
He would start to tell a string of stories, the most exciting of which were how he stole across the border between Russia and Poland, with his pregnant wife and small children, and because of the fear of being caught, he fed them sweets, and so on and so forth.
Since then, mostly, I am there. I listen, hear, record, and learn. My doctoral dissertation was about the settlers in the Taanach region, settlers who told me willingly and happily their personal stories so that I could be able to turn their story into a book, and they remain in the annals of the nation's renewal in its own country.
Subsequently, I administered the Haim Sturman House, which is a museum dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of the Harod valley and the Gilboa.
At the present, I am approaching you, in the framework of Make-MymuseuM, and am offering you a simple and convenient tool, that I developed recently, the virtual museum, for telling your story and your family's story, the institution or community of which you are a leader. This is a favorite and popular tool with the younger generation for whom you will be able to document, tell, commemorate and reinforce your journey and heritage.
A few words about me…
Dr. Ofra Keinan has a broad academic background in the fields of the Geography of Culture and Heritage Preservation, and also is the founder and leader of the
Make-MymuseuM venture. The aim of the venture is the creation of virtualmuseums for organizations, institutions and individuals. She specialized in the theoretical and practical background of virtual museums, the structure of museums, their programs, and the comparison between the virtual museum and the physical museum.
During a decade she was the chief administrator and curator of the Beit Haim Sturman institute and museum. In this framework, she served as the curator of the main permanent exhibition of the museum called "The Story of Atara", as well as numerous temporary exhibitions. She places special emphasis on the creation of exhibitions based on heritage preservation, including the exhibitions "The Religion of Culture" – from the world of the former USSR Jewry, and "Exodus from Ethiopia 1990". Both of these exhibitions were very successful and constituted an important cultural tool in the regional integration of the immigrants from these countries.
Over the years she has dealt with the preservation of the historical narrative ever since her childhood as the family chronicler, via the documentation of the Taanach region, that was the foundation for her dissertation continuing up to the documentation of the immigration and integration in the Jezreel Valley in the 1990s. This work in documenting and preserving of heritage and this extensive knowledge and deep understanding in virtual museums constitute the infrastructure of the e-mymuseum.com venture's capacity to create virtual museums.
Lectures:
1. Heritage preservation in Israel and the peoples..
2. Settlement museums and their role in the reinforcement of the Israeli identity:
How the historical museums in the settlements handled the immigration absorption in the 1990s.
3. Between the kibbutzim and moshavim there are two ways of immigration
absorption: presenting the ideological and practical ways of the two sister movements in coping with immigration absorption during the first decade.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Ofra Keinan
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