Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Archives and museums in Argentina, Mexico and Spain show how documents, photographs and objects can help tell stories of everyday life. They also reveal the limits of what a collection allows us to claim about the past.
Open storyA cautious reading of the available evidence on how graphic design forms part of the museum experience and of the way museums present themselves to the public. The located academic study examines graphic resources in seven museums in Valencia; other sources help place design within interpretation, documentation and institutional communication.
Open storyIntervention records, minimal-intervention principles and preventive conservation help frame restoration as a practice that also creates a record. The available sources show how Spanish museums and institutions describe and document this work.
Open storyPhotographic collections are more than images: their supports, provenance and associated information shape how they can be preserved, studied and understood. The Museo de Zaragoza offers a concrete example of preventive conservation adapted to diverse materials.
Open storyPopular memory often equates the Internet with pages and browsers. The available sources tell a broader story: a network infrastructure supporting different services, with email as a central practice and the Web as a later layer of linked documents.
Open storyAn introduction to distribution as the link between production and exhibition, and to what the available sources tell us about the consolidation of Spain’s film sector from the early twentieth century to the quota debate of 1928.
Open storyConserving decorative arts is not simply a matter of repairing objects. Documentation, accessible storage and preventive care are part of the everyday work of protecting both their physical integrity and the information they convey.
Open storyPreserving videogames means attending to software, hardware, documents and contexts of use. Drawing on published archives, museums and analysis, this article examines what gets preserved, what may be left out, and why every archival decision also interprets the medium’s history.
Open storyA cautious reading of the available sources on 1970s fashion: disco aesthetics, synthetic materials and the influence of urban cultures emerge as distinct strands, not as one uniform style.
Open storyA look at how museums and collections turn everyday toys into evidence of childhood, material culture and social change—without confusing what an object may suggest with what sources can establish.
Open storyA critical look at how companies and creators revive forms from the past to address present-day desires, and at what the available evidence does—and does not—allow us to say about the phenomenon.
Open storyRegular television broadcasting in Spain began in 1956, but its early history cannot be reduced to an opening date. The available sources show how the new medium gained public presence and how programmes, advertising and political context intersected in its first years.
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