Digital heritage technology at the archaeological museum of heraklion

Abstract

This paper presents an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure that fuses state-of-the-art technologies and related applications with digital cultural resources to deliver interactive and immersive user encounters through on-site Virtual Exhibitions (VEs) which respond to the demands of ‘new museology’. The practical exploitation of the concept is presented through the reformation of the exhibition spaces of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion which is one of the most important Greek museums hosting representative artefacts from all the periods of Cretan prehistory and ancient history, covering a chronological span of over 5,500 years from the Neolithic period to Roman times.