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The Museo da Conserva’s #ComidaViejuna campaign revisits home recipe books in its collection as records of habits, aesthetics and cultural memory—not merely as cooking instructions.
Open storyPicture stickers moved from accompanying consumer goods to forming organized album collections. Available sources mark an important shift in Panini’s history between its Italian collection of 1961 and the international 1970 World Cup album, and also document the circulation of stickers and albums in Spain.
Open storyMusic leaves traces in scores, recordings, archives and living practices. Looking at musical heritage shows why preservation must attend to documents as well as their contexts, uses and forms of dissemination.
Open storyHousehold recipe books, labels, tins and documents offer ways to approach food as social practice and cultural memory. The Museo da Conserva and several archives provide concrete examples, while also reminding us of the limits of what a collection can establish.
Open storyThe history of Modena’s Museo della Figurina offers a documented example of a private collection of printed images becoming part of a public space devoted to their preservation, study and presentation.
Open storyThe history of Ibi’s Valencian Toy Museum shows how a toy collection can document industrial work, design, advertising and changing ways of playing. Drawing on institutional and academic sources, this article places the museum within a Spanish network devoted to preserving toy heritage.
Open storyThe collections and institutional history of the National Museum of Decorative Arts allow decoration to be examined as a matter of production, education, consumption and design, rather than merely a repertoire of exceptional objects.
Open storyA reading of automotive preservation as a cultural practice: vehicles, engines, chassis and manuals, together with their social contexts, explain far more than technical evolution.
Open storyA cautious reading of the changes that several museum and popular-history sources associate with Spanish toys in the 1970s: the expansion of plastic, battery- and wind-up mechanisms, broader consumption, and the continuity of figures and construction toys.
Open storyArchives, scores, recorded media and documentation of musical activity form a heritage that requires context, cataloguing and routes of access. Drawing on institutional and academic sources, this analysis explains why preserving music is not simply a matter of digitisation.
Open storyDrawing on documented Spanish exhibitions and collections, this analysis examines Madrid fashion from the post-war period to the 1970s as a material and visual source. Garments, photographs, fashion drawings, magazines and accessories can reveal changing customs, without mistaking a museum exhibition for a complete portrait of an era.
Open storyA documented tour of several decisive changes in board games from 1970 to 2009: Spanish editions of historical games, the so-called European school, the expansion of the 1990s, and a selection of titles whose chronology appears in the available sources.
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