Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
A critical tour of six documented motor collections and museums shows that preserving a car or motorcycle is not only about displaying an object: it also means retaining manuals, tools, public uses, and stories of design and industry.
Open storyA reading of Spanish cinema through the personal, corporate, publicity and documentary holdings preserved by film libraries and specialist archives.
Open storyDecorative arts are not preserved merely by protecting objects. Documentation, photographs, ongoing review and storage are part of the information that makes an object interpretable. The National Museum of Decorative Arts shows how a museum turns decoration into contextualized heritage.
Open storyTurin’s National Automobile Museum presents vehicles, engines and chassis as evidence of innovation, fashion, science and social change. This profile examines what the available information supports about its origins, historic collection and conservation approach.
Open storyMuseums and collections show that a toy is not merely a cherished object: it can document industry, education, consumption, gender and everyday life. A critical reading of how this material memory is preserved, displayed and contextualised.
Open storyThe history of the National Museum of Decorative Arts makes it possible to read decoration as material culture: between its early commitment to industrial arts, a later turn toward works of high decorative value, and subsequent reassessments that restored the importance of production, consumption, and use.
Open storyStickers did not begin as isolated toys. In Spain, the evidence gathered places their antecedents in commercial wrappers from the late nineteenth century, their spread through consumer products in the 1920s, and the sale of packets in the post-war period. This history explains why the album, the duplicate, and swapping form a cultural system of their own.
Open storyA reading and cataloguing guide for separating publication date, serialization, collected editions, and editorial context without turning clues into certainties.
Open storyA guide to looking at a historic automobile collection beyond the shine of its bodywork. Turin’s MAUTO provides a case study for provenance, authenticity, exhibition design and preventive conservation, while Spanish museums place that work within cultural and technological heritage.
Open storyCollections in Turin, Torrejón de Ardoz and Berlin show that preserving vehicles is not merely about assembling machines: it also means safeguarding trades, documents, design and the social uses of mobility.
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