Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
The 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 storyA critical reading of contemporary retro based on the available evidence: products and designs that recover codes from the past to address current needs, tastes, and strategies of differentiation.
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 reading of catalogues, educational materials and academic works to understand what can be documented about everyday life without turning routines into unfounded nostalgia.
Open storyThe holdings of the Prado, MNCN-CSIC and publications from Spain’s Ministry of Culture point to an essential idea in conservation: restoration is not merely acting upon an object, but leaving a verifiable record of its condition, needs and the decisions made.
Open storyA critical reading of the available evidence: public collections, catalogues and timelines help situate photography and video, but also require us to distinguish documented facts from broad technological narratives.
Open storyOn 12 August 1981, IBM introduced the 5150. Its importance lies not only in the machine itself: the later opening of its ecosystem, the spread of compatibles, and the presence of MS-DOS helped make “PC” a central reference in personal computing.
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.
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