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Restoring and caring for everyday heritage

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Contemporary

Old Software Museums: Preserving Is Not the Same as Being Able to Run It

WinWorld and Virtual OS Museum illustrate two complementary ways to approach historic software: the downloadable library and the environment already prepared for emulation. The comparison also shows the documentary, technical and rights-related limits surrounding access to old software.

Before 1950

MAUTO: When the Automobile Enters the Museum as Material Culture

Turin’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.

Contemporary

Preserving Video Games Means Preserving Their Contexts

Spanish 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.

2000s

2006: When Mexico City’s Urban Photography Gained a Museum Archive

On 6 December 2006, the creation of Mexico City’s Museo Archivo de la Fotografía was published. Drawing on the available institutional information, this article places that milestone within a broader history: photography as a record of urban administration, the challenge of describing large holdings, and the role of museums and photo libraries in preserving visual memory.

Contemporary

What a Comics Museum Preserves: Five Certainties and Several Documentary Limits

A critical reading of the available evidence on the Museu del Còmic i la Il·lustració and the value of magazines, booklets, press material and original art as documentary heritage. The article separates what the sources support from what still requires cataloguing, provenance and institutional consultation.

1960s

Puerto Cristal: What an Everyday Archive Can Tell Us About a Mining Camp

The Historical Archive of the Puerto Cristal Museum in Chile holds records from the 1960s to the 1990s concerning a mining camp and the lives of its residents. It offers a way to explain why an archive is not a collection of isolated memories: it preserves provenance, activities, and links among the school, radio, port warehouses, laboratory, and mine, although the available evidence does not describe every record or its physical condition.