Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Modena’s Museo della Figurina offers a starting point for considering the sticker not only as an item for swapping, but as a printed object requiring provenance, description and context. This reading connects its collection with public principles of inventory, conservation and access.
Open storyThe Museo Cerralbo project offers a way to examine restoration as the recovery of a historic interior rather than work on isolated objects alone. Documentation, coordination among trades, and the sequence of work from 2002 to 2009 show why conservation also means deciding which material and museographic evidence should remain legible.
Open storyA critical guide to turning gestures, household objects, domestic work and familiar spaces into historical questions, without mistaking an isolated image for an era’s complete experience.
Open storyOfficially created in 2006, Mexico City’s Museum Archive of Photography offers a way to consider photography not only as an image, but also as an institutional document, urban memory, and heritage requiring context, classification, and preservation.
Open storyA critical reading of the comics magazine as a periodical format: its bond with the newsstand, serialized publication, changing market scale, and today’s coexistence of print, albums, and the internet.
Open storyTurin’s National Automobile Museum presents vehicles, engines and chassis as evidence of innovation, fashion, science and social change. This profile examines what the available information supports about its origins, historic collection and conservation approach.
Open storyMuseums and collections show that a toy is not merely a cherished object: it can document industry, education, consumption, gender and everyday life. A critical reading of how this material memory is preserved, displayed and contextualised.
Open storyA comparison of two milestones cited for 1992 and 1994 and today’s debates on digitisation, access, and loss of context. The available evidence traces a move from cultural content distributed through FTP to a museum’s presence on the Internet, while requiring a distinction between putting materials online and preserving their documentary meaning.
Open storyThe history of the National Museum of Decorative Arts makes it possible to read decoration as material culture: between its early commitment to industrial arts, a later turn toward works of high decorative value, and subsequent reassessments that restored the importance of production, consumption, and use.
Open storySpanish museums, archives and associations show that conserving video games also means caring for machines, software, documentation, images, publications and the means of access that make the whole intelligible.
Open storyA reading of the computer as a museum-documentation tool: useful for structuring records, images, movements and conservation reports, yet dependent on the context attached to every object.
Open storyThe Museo Universitario del Chopo opened in 1975, and its Information Centre and Media Library holds materials useful for researching musical cultures and practices. Available documentation places it as a landmark for Mexican underground cultures in the 1980s and as host to the first Tianguis de la Música.
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