Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
The planned new Film Museum in the former NO-DO building offers a way to reconsider what preserving film heritage means: not merely safeguarding copies, but also caring for media, documentation, cultural uses and the conditions of access that make audiovisual history intelligible.
Open storyMuseums, archives and collections show that video-game history cannot be contained in a ROM or a console alone: it also includes documentation, promotional material, software, hardware and the criteria used to present them to the public.
Open storyEarly broadcasts and early television archives did not rely on videotape. The available documentation identifies motion-picture filming and film processing as the only way to record programmes until 1956, while Spanish demonstrations in 1948 anticipated the medium’s public arrival.
Open storyA critical reading of contemporary retro as a strategy of design, consumption and differentiation: it is not simply about repeating old objects, but about selecting recognizable features from the past and combining them with present-day uses.
Open storyAn archive source gives 27 September 1985 as GAELCO’s founding date. From that verifiable point, its preserved record can be read as part of the industrial, technical and cultural history of Spanish arcade games—without turning documentary gaps into certainties.
Open storyTechnology can broaden access to collections, support their documentation and reduce handling of some originals. Yet an isolated image or record does not, by itself, preserve an object’s history. This analysis explains why inventories, identifiers and contextual metadata are essential parts of cultural preservation.
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 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 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 guide to understanding the computer as a museum-documentation tool: not as a replacement for objects, but as a means of linking provenance, conservation condition, images, movements and institutional history.
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