Open-air museums are vast repositories of cultural heritage data, which are currently located in archival records, photos, video, and the minds of museum staff and volunteers. RETOLD ensures that open-air museums continue telling important cultural heritage stories to a diverse public by developing a standardised workflow to collect, digitise, and share data on buildings, crafts, and traditions. By means of RETOLD, museum data are preserved and better accessible, offering opportunities for more engaging and impactful story-telling about cultural heritage to the general public.
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RETOLD: Documentation | Digitisation | Sharing
Featured Articles
RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), June 2022
RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at the Stone Age Park Dithmarschen, Albersdorf, September 2023
RETOLD: A SWOT Analysis
RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at ASTRA, Sibiu, March 2023
RETOLD: Documenting Houses, Sharing the Story with the Visitors
RETOLD: On the Way for a Digital Future of Documentation in Open-air Museums – User Requirements for Data Entry and a Management Product for the RETOLD-Project
RETOLD: Open-air Museum Mobile Applications UX Report - Looking for Inspiration
Introduction
The RETOLD Project (2020-2024), launched by EXARC and funded by Creative Europe, aims to develop a standardised workflow to freely document, digitise and share the heritage of Open-air museums. One of its key features will be the release of a unified digital platform which will improve research capacity and the preservation of digitised heritage data. In addition, it will offer tools that will enable future museum professionals to achieve an active digital presence and enhance participation with communities, thus ensuring the long-term sustainability of these spaces.
RETOLD: Initial Survey to Capture Current State of Digital Tech in Open-Air Museums
RETOLD: Documenting House (Re)constructions – An Excerpt of European Approaches
RETOLD: A European Project Digitises Memories of Experimental Archaeology for Their Preservation
Approaches to the Documentation of Houses in Open-Air Museums
Discussion: The Concept of Authenticity in Collections of Open-Air Museums
How is it possible that if you go into an arts museum, the ceramics you see may be made yesterday and may be a valued and legitimate part of the museum collection, while in open-air museums, a similar object ...