The use of gaming to provide additional value to cultural experiences, like museums visits, is not novel. The increased possibilities to access the game market opened by online platforms make the communicative and emotional characteristics of digital games an opportunity for promotion. In this paper, we discuss the theoretical foundations of an approach aimed at producing digital games meant to...

In museums, it is critical to properly conserve the existing artwork. For this purpose, it is fundamental to continuously monitor its environment, either in storage or exhibition rooms. Contrarily to traditional measuring equipments and procedures used in museums, the deployment of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can help to implement these measurements continuously, in a real-time basis, and i...

The 1970’s created a new relation between museums and the society, most of all through the concept of ecomuseum. In the meantime, the society – the context in which museums exist has changed considerably. While originally responding to the needs of the moment, with their concept of territory, heritage, identity and development, and (local) community as the basic pillar of the process, ecomuseum...

for a variety of reasons, including medical purposes. The debate on this issue, held at the College in May 2003. It showed that the retention of human remains by museums is a complex and contentious issue, just as it is for medical institutions. This report covers issues of ‘ownership’: since in the UK no one can legally own human remains, who has the strongest claim to them and why? The age of...