Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Created in Mexico City in 2006, the Museum Archive of Photography makes it possible to read institutional photography not merely as illustration, but as a historical document. Its case raises a decisive question: how to preserve, describe and make accessible images created for the everyday management of a city.
Open story1 January 1970 functions as an internal reference for dates in many computing systems. This analysis places that convention alongside the decade’s changes: microprocessors, personal computers, storage media, and the home market.
Open storyA documented reading of the role of distributors in Spain, the sector’s early consolidation, and the archives that now make this chain of mediation researchable.
Open storyThe Web did not create the Internet, but it radically changed how it was used. This careful overview explains how links, browsers and search helped turn a network of technical services into an everyday space during the 1990s.
Open storyConserving decorative heritage is not only about protecting objects. It requires documenting materials, changes, provenance, use and relationships with other holdings so that a piece remains interpretable.
Open storyComics and comic magazines were created as widely circulated, inexpensive, and vulnerable printed matter. The available documentation shows how archives, museums, digital projects, and collectors have helped reconsider them as cultural sources whose preservation requires context, description, and access—not storage alone.
Open storyIn 1976, Fairchild launched its Video Entertainment System, later called Channel F. The available evidence identifies it as the first console to use cartridges to load new games; a change that helps explain how a home machine moved from being tied to one program to functioning as a platform.
Open storyA cautious reading of Spanish television from the 1970s to the 2000s: the screen’s consolidation in domestic life, the technical importance of colour, and the contemporary change brought by consulting television heritage through digital archives.
Open storyThe available evidence makes 1970 a useful year for observing how music circulated at once as an album, a collectible object, an advertising resource and a technological experience. It also requires a careful distinction between documented facts and common simplifications about the Walkman.
Open storyA documented reading of the transformation of toys in Spain during the 1970s: the predominance of plastic, expanding consumption, and the place of figures such as Airgam Boys within a heritage now preserved and reinterpreted by collections and museums.
Open storyRecipe books, tins, labels and food-industry documents can be read as cultural heritage when they are preserved alongside their contexts of use. Drawing on the work of Museo da Conserva and sources on museums and food, this article examines what these materials can reveal, what cannot be claimed from them, and why nostalgia should be an entry point rather than a conclusion.
Open storyPreserving a console as an isolated object says little about its cultural life. Drawing on museum and archival principles, this analysis proposes viewing the console, its documentation, context, and public access as an inseparable whole, without assigning a specific model a history not documented by the available evidence.
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