Revealing Hidden Histories with Modern Technology : Archaeological Information Systems and Geolocalization

2016

It has been long since it was enough for museums to be simply repositories of objects and hubs of research and knowledge. Public education and sharing of knowledge has always been part of museum ideology but today many museums are striving to engage and enthral their audiences in a world filled with pastime entertainment. Nonetheless, this challenge is not novel but one of the fundamental questions of museum pedagogy: How to present past and distant cultures as lived histories, as lives lived in places and environments now either empty or over taken by new inhabitants and their way of life? How to present the world stored inside the museum as interconnected with the living, changing everyda…