When the future is the past. Digital databases for the virtualization of museum collection

Abstract

The paper through an excursus on the technological development of virtual fruition systems, intends to reflect on the methods of communication and dissemination of cultural heritage, taking as a reference part of the results of research recently conducted on some case studies. The museum, configured in its new immaterial form and no longer as an exclusively physical place, amplifies the availability of space open to visitors, revolutionizing its role as cultural mediator in the extension of a potential connective that increases the dynamics of social development. The present research was aimed at programming a methodological protocol for the documentation and the virtualization of museum assets, collections and architectural heritage of tourist interest, based on a new approach to fruition of the space and the work of art in it contained.