Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
A look at archives, museums, and projects that treat video games as material and digital culture: games, machines, documents, software, and the decisions that shape their public memory.
Open storyThe Walkman is remembered as a turning point in portable listening, but the available sources place that change within a broader history of sound recording, personal devices and digital distribution. They also show why documented dates should be distinguished from retrospective accounts.
Open storyShowing fashion involves more than displaying garments: it means explaining their history and use, as well as the material limits that determine what can be seen and for how long.
Open storyThe magazine, comic book, album and collected edition are not interchangeable wrappers: each format organizes the reading and circulation of comics differently. A cautious tour through the available sources, from early Spanish publications to the smaller place magazines occupy today.
Open storyThe spread of Eurogames, festivals and a growing range of products helps explain the transformation of board games from the 1990s onward. The available sources point to a significant shift, but do not support reducing it to a single date or title.
Open storyDigitizing collections can broaden access, but it does not replace the work of documenting objects, organizing their records, and preserving the links that make them interpretable. A look at museum digitization through its less visible tasks.
Open storyMuseum archives can preserve traces of ordinary activities. Reading them carefully offers a way into everyday life without mistaking documents for a complete picture of the past.
Open storyA museum’s graphic design is more than decoration or signage: it guides attention, communicates an identity and can contribute to an educational experience. Research on museums in Valencia and guidance on museum archives offer ways to consider what should be documented—and what the available evidence does not establish.
Open storyThe Web made the Internet more visible, but it did not create it. Email and other network services already enabled communication and remote access before links and browsers brought the network to a wider audience.
Open storyPreserving old software means looking beyond its data to include documentation, context of use and the conditions that make it intelligible. Archives and museums offer useful principles, but they cannot replace research into each individual program.
Open storyMexico City’s Museo Archivo de la Fotografía invites us to see an image not only as a visual memory but as a document connected to institutions, places and urban change. Its history also shows why preserving a photograph means safeguarding the information that gives it context.
Open storyCaring for a collection is not limited to its objects: it also depends on documentation, accessibility and the conditions of the spaces that house them. Institutional sources help explain what can—and cannot—be said about decoration as part of the museum experience.
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