Experiencing Heritage at a World Heritage Site: Personal encounters with Hadrian's Wall

meSch - Material Encounters with Digital Cultural Heritage

meSch has the goal of designing, developing and deploying tools for the creation of tangible interactive experiences that connect the physical dimension of museums and exhibitions with relevant digital cross-media information in novel ways. In particular, meSch will deliver a platform to enable curators, artists, designers and cultural heritage professionals in general to create smart objects a...

Experiencing Van Gogh's Heritage: A Case Study

In view of Vincent Van Gogh’s 125 th death anniversary in 2015, the Regional council West Brabant and the city of Breda with its surroundings commissioned our university the drafting of a tourism development plan for the Dutch region of West Brabant using Van Gogh as a brand image. Van Gogh the artist is mostly associated to Amsterdam, where the museum named after him and collecting most of his...

World Heritage Paper 31 - Community development through World Heritage

Technological and Corrosion Studies of BronzeObjects Excavatedin Bam World Heritage Site

The study of metal works of Bam citadel (Arg-e-Bam) is underway to study the pathology of metalworks in Iran.The aim of this project is to study and investigate the corrosion mechanisms of metal objects. Various metallic works including iron, silver and copper alloys have been gained from the area of Arg-e-Bam. The research is focused on a number of bronze works of this historical site.The stud...

World Heritage Papers 9