Experiencing Cultural Content

Abstract

Are museums, content providers and users ready and willing to use new technologies to explore cultural heritage? In the twenty-first century, the Information Society era, does the nineteenth century’s encyclopaedic approach to museums still apply? Do ICT tools really help content holders and/or end-users? In the last ten years, an increasing number of projects have taken advantage of computer graphics, hypermedia and telecommunications on a large scale to document, study and/or communicate cultural heritage. In many countries around the world, projects that use technology to preserve and communicate cultural heritage are receiving increasing levels of financial support, as it is recognised that cultural heritage is a vital national resource.