Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
A look at several Spanish collections shows that an automobile museum preserves more than vehicles: it can also bring together engines, components, documents and context to explain the history of technology and society. The available information allows a comparison between MAUTO and the Torrejón de Ardoz automobile collection without conflating their origins or aims.
Open storyA comics magazine is more than a container for comics: its periodicity, mix of content and relationship with newsstands have shaped how stories are published and read. This article considers what can be established about its history and changes without conflating it with the album or graphic novel.
Open storyFashion’s arrival in museums changed how clothing could be seen: exhibitions can address not only appearance but also social, artistic and material histories. A careful survey of documented milestones and debates from 1971 to the early twenty-first century.
Open storyA source-based look at changes in Spanish television, from the medium’s milestones and expansion to the technical transformation of production and audiovisual preservation.
Open storyA guide to reading catalogues, educational materials and studies of everyday life with attention to what they actually document, what questions they allow us to ask, and where their limits lie.
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 storyDigitizing objects can broaden access and support preservation, but an image is not equivalent to an object or to the documentation that explains its provenance, history and meaning. Drawing on the available sources, we examine what changes when museums adopt digital tools—and which limits should remain visible.
Open storyBetween 2002 and 2009, the Cerralbo Museum undertook the recovery of several rooms on its Main Floor. The project combined historical documentation, conservation and restoration, raising a central question: how can a historic interior be made legible again without confusing recovery with free reconstruction?
Open storyThe Museo de Zaragoza’s photographic collection illustrates why preserving images means caring for their different physical supports as well as the information needed to interpret them. Drawing on institutional and academic sources, this article reviews documented principles and their limits.
Open storyAmong the available references, 1970, 1998 and 2009 trace a documentary path for the consolidation of food history in Spain: reference works, an exhibition and academic studies that treat food as culture, everyday life and historical evidence.
Open storyA guide to viewing historical photographs as documents connected to the people and institutions that produced, preserved, and described them. The Museo Archivo de la Fotografía in Mexico City helps place that idea within institutional management, cataloguing, and digitisation.
Open storyCreated 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.
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