Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
A critical reading of the comics-magazine format: its role as a periodical, its relationship with serialization, and the documented reasons for its transformation alongside albums and the internet.
Open storyAutomobile museums do not merely display vehicles: they also preserve engines, components, manuals and evidence of use to explain the relationship between technology, society and material culture. A look at documented cases in Torrejón de Ardoz, Turin and Galicia.
Open storyThe Museo del Traje collection brings together regional dress, jewellery and accessories, works by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, and holdings representing Cristóbal Balenciaga and Pedro Rodríguez. Using the available institutional information, we examine what this concentration of objects allows us to say and the limits of a collection description.
Open storyA reading of musical heritage as a set of documents, practices and social contexts. Preservation requires cataloguing, prioritising, digitising and describing material without reducing music to an isolated carrier.
Open storyToys do more than evoke childhood: their materials, purchase routes, uses, and preservation make social transformations legible. Drawing on museum and academic sources, we examine what can—and cannot—be claimed when a toy enters a collection.
Open storyFirst published in 2019, Museum is a collection competition set in museums of the early twentieth century. Its interest lies not in reproducing actual museum practice, but in making selection, arrangement, and collection prestige playable.
Open storySeveral sources place a decisive transformation of the board-game industry in the 1990s: supply grew, eurogames became popular, and a broader conversation about authors, publishers, audiences, materiality, and digital play took shape. This analysis separates documented evidence from possible interpretations.
Open storyA journey from promotional prints and early albums to packet buying, incomplete albums and duplicate swapping: a material culture that took on a recognizable form in twentieth-century Spain.
Open storyA contextual guide to why preserving cinema does not simply mean storing films: copies, documents, posters, devices and digital formats form a heritage whose access and dissemination matter too.
Open storyThe available sources describe collections of cars, motorcycles, engines, chassis, manuals and tools in Italy, Spain and Germany. Rather than forming a list of brands, they show how museums turn vehicles into technical documents, design objects and evidence of mobility.
Open storyAn analysis of the boom in Spanish adult-comics magazines, their role as spaces for discovery, and their later decline, set alongside comics’ growing museum recognition.
Open storyMuseums, archives and collections show that preserving video-game history requires attention to machines, software, publications, promotional material and the cultural contexts that give them meaning.
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