The MACBA Archive preserves historically valuable documentation generated by the museum and by people and entities connected with artistic practices.
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The MACBA Archive preserves historically valuable documentation generated by the museum and by people and entities connected with artistic practices.
Beyond technique, preserving unstable works forces institutions to negotiate cultural value against material integrity, redefining the archive's role in the present.
Open storyPhotographic and audiovisual archives do not preserve images alone: they also safeguard relationships, uses and descriptions. Drawing on documented cases from Spain and Mexico City, this article examines why preventive conservation, digitisation and metadata must work together.
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