Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Recipe books, tins, labels and archival documents make it possible to approach food as both tangible and intangible heritage. Drawing on documented Spanish cases and approaches, this analysis considers how to read such objects without mistaking nostalgia for historical proof.
Open storyThe collective catalogue of Spain’s State Archives preserves a long sequence of Historia y Vida issues from 1970 to 2009. This piece offers a cautious reading of that continuity: not as automatic proof of what the magazine published, but as an entry point for researching how everyday life is documented.
Open storyBetween 1970 and 2009, restoration in Spanish museums can be read as a shift from poorly documented interventions towards coordinated projects combining historical research, conservation, the recovery of interiors and renewed museum displays. The Prado, Museo Cerralbo, MAN and National Library make it possible to trace that change without reducing it to a merely technical timeline.
Open storyIntroduced by IBM on 12 August 1981, the 5150 did not inaugurate the personal computer, but it helped establish a path of expansion based on an architecture other manufacturers could adopt. This analysis separates documented facts from interpretations of its influence.
Open storySpanish public collections show that the history of photography does not depend solely on cameras or authors: it is also sustained by negatives, slides, albums, postcards, catalogues and descriptive systems. This survey compares five institutions and their documented holdings.
Open storyMuseum presence on the Internet did not begin as an immersive experience. Starting with documented cases at the Library of Congress in 1992 and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 1994, this article examines what changed when collections and documentation moved online—and why accessibility cannot replace context.
Open storyThe planned new Film Museum in the former NO-DO building offers a way to reconsider what preserving film heritage means: not merely safeguarding copies, but also caring for media, documentation, cultural uses and the conditions of access that make audiovisual history intelligible.
Open storyTurin’s Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile opened to the public in 1939 with a collection of 181 objects. Its origins show how the automobile became not only a technical object, but also a record of design, mobility and social change.
Open storyToys do more than evoke an individual childhood: they make it possible to study crafts, materials, educational models, consumption and everyday life. Drawing on documented collections and exhibitions in Spain and Colombia, this analysis examines what changes when an object of play is preserved and interpreted as heritage.
Open storyMuseums, archives and collections show that video-game history cannot be contained in a ROM or a console alone: it also includes documentation, promotional material, software, hardware and the criteria used to present them to the public.
Open storyEarly broadcasts and early television archives did not rely on videotape. The available documentation identifies motion-picture filming and film processing as the only way to record programmes until 1956, while Spanish demonstrations in 1948 anticipated the medium’s public arrival.
Open storyA cautious reading of 1970s fashion from the available evidence: disco, Lycra, platform shoes, experimentation and diversity, without turning broad trends into a single story.
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