Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
A guide to looking at a historic automobile collection beyond the shine of its bodywork. Turin’s MAUTO provides a case study for provenance, authenticity, exhibition design and preventive conservation, while Spanish museums place that work within cultural and technological heritage.
Open storyThe Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s Internet presence in 1994 offers a way into a central question of the early Internet: preserving a digital experience is not merely a matter of saving files. It also requires recording its relationship to the institution, its collections, its uses and its limits.
Open storyMusic collections are not limited to records or recordings: they bring together documents, practices, institutions, and social contexts. This guide offers a critical way to read their preservation through documented Mexican examples and debates on Latin American musical heritage.
Open storyA reading guide to understand why films, documents, equipment and access contexts jointly make up cinematic heritage.
Open storyCollections in Turin, Torrejón de Ardoz and Berlin show that preserving vehicles is not merely about assembling machines: it also means safeguarding trades, documents, design and the social uses of mobility.
Open storyA reading of fashion in Spain from the post-war years to the 1970s as material culture: garments, accessories, photographs, fashion plates, and magazines make it possible to study both dress and the channels that made it visible.
Open storyThe 1990s are often identified as a turning point for the board-game industry and its study. Rather than offering a closed history of successes and labels, this article examines what the available evidence supports: a broader supply, the popularisation of Eurogames, new meeting spaces, and historical research that remains fragmented.
Open storyToy collections, exhibitions and museums make it possible to understand these objects beyond nostalgia. Drawing on sources about Spanish toy heritage, this article examines what objects can document, how museums put them in context, and the limits required by a rigorous reading.
Open storyThe Tolosa museum traces chocolate through tools, chocolate pots and a historic workshop. Its collection shows how a food can also become technical, domestic and cultural heritage.
Open storyFounded in 1956 and now known as Tōei Animation, Tōei Dōga was a decisive laboratory of post-war Japanese animation. The available evidence allows us to examine its commitment to feature films, its training role, and the limits of a history that should not be reduced to a linear genealogy of anime.
Open storyLaunched by IBM in mid-August 1981, the IBM PC 5150 entered an already active personal-computing market. Its importance does not lie in being the first personal computer, but in the expansion of an architecture that other manufacturers could adopt and that helped establish the PC as an industry reference.
Open storyThe available evidence places the French studio Grapus between 1971 and 1991 and describes social and political posters that combined recognizable symbols contradictorily to produce discomfort and attention.
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