Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Created in Mexico City in 2006, the Museum Archive of Photography makes it possible to read institutional photography not merely as illustration, but as a historical document. Its case raises a decisive question: how to preserve, describe and make accessible images created for the everyday management of a city.
Open storyA documented reading of the role of distributors in Spain, the sector’s early consolidation, and the archives that now make this chain of mediation researchable.
Open storyConserving decorative heritage is not only about protecting objects. It requires documenting materials, changes, provenance, use and relationships with other holdings so that a piece remains interpretable.
Open storyComics and comic magazines were created as widely circulated, inexpensive, and vulnerable printed matter. The available documentation shows how archives, museums, digital projects, and collectors have helped reconsider them as cultural sources whose preservation requires context, description, and access—not storage alone.
Open storyThe available evidence makes 1970 a useful year for observing how music circulated at once as an album, a collectible object, an advertising resource and a technological experience. It also requires a careful distinction between documented facts and common simplifications about the Walkman.
Open storyA documented reading of the transformation of toys in Spain during the 1970s: the predominance of plastic, expanding consumption, and the place of figures such as Airgam Boys within a heritage now preserved and reinterpreted by collections and museums.
Open storyRecipe books, tins, labels and food-industry documents can be read as cultural heritage when they are preserved alongside their contexts of use. Drawing on the work of Museo da Conserva and sources on museums and food, this article examines what these materials can reveal, what cannot be claimed from them, and why nostalgia should be an entry point rather than a conclusion.
Open storyPreserving a console as an isolated object says little about its cultural life. Drawing on museum and archival principles, this analysis proposes viewing the console, its documentation, context, and public access as an inseparable whole, without assigning a specific model a history not documented by the available evidence.
Open storyA careful reading of the transformation board games underwent in the 1990s: an expanding catalogue, the importance of European design, and The Settlers of Catan as a frequently cited landmark.
Open storyAn editorial guide to approaching an arcade machine through documentation and preventive conservation: identify what is known, record its condition and context, and separate verifiable data from memories.
Open storyThe 2006 creation of Mexico City’s Museo Archivo de la Fotografía provides a way to examine a central question: an image is not only what it depicts, but also who produced it, why, how it was preserved, and what information makes it accessible.
Open storyA journey through the changing focus of Spain’s National Museum of Decorative Arts: from its early support for industrial products and technical education to a later reading centred on objects, their uses, and their contexts of production and consumption.
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