Museums and libraries were established as repositories of memory, initially as rarity-cabinets and archives by rich collectors in the 16th century. These resulted in the museum and library archives as public institutions of the 18th century with a mission to educate their visitors (Dilevko 2004). During the 19th century the past was defined as the product of “intellectual enactment and study” (Benett, 2004, p.2). Today, the use of Virtual Reality (VR) applications in Archaeology and Museology and the ever-increasing development of interactive software and new technological platforms have provided museum and library archives and historical collections with a new space of contact to their users. In other words, Museums, libraries and institutions of memory have been challenged to find new forms of dialogue with their users and have turned to VR technology to entertain and inform their audience.

1. Scholarly knowledge about the
past through archives,
repositories and collections.
•How was it established?
•How does it reach the public?
•How will it be curated in the future?
•Alexandra Angeletaki NTNU
University library.

2. Life is a way to
remember who we are: Plato

3. The Gunnerus library
in Kalvskinnet!
A memory institution of regional
national and international value!

4. The expert, the message and the audience!
Material things present themselves in relation to human beings
( Hooper-Greenhill 1992)
The communication between an object and a visitor ..starts with a visit and
continues in the mind and imagination of the visitor. ( Miles1994)
What motivates the public into seeking knowledge? Museum studies,
archaeology, history, humanities.

5. OLD BOOKS AS OBJECTS OF THE PAST
PHYSICAL OBJECTS
HERITAGE OBJECTS
RESULT OF CRAFTMANSHIP
SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE
DIGITAL OBJECTS
...........

6. The library as a cultural agent
Content analysis and accessibility:
From the oldest to the newest: Parchments,
Fragments, Illuminations, Typography,
Digitilization.
Cataloguing, systems, corpuses,seminars, cources
solutions to support research and spread
knowledge.
.

7. Curation
Bibliographical data, book
conservation issues, book science
and bookbibding history.

8. Preservation
Conservation
Analysis
Research

9. Dissemination Exhibitions
Lectures and workshops
Research
Articles-media-games-entertainment

12. Research
Hyperspectral
Imaging
Gemini.no

15. Archives and
Digitilisation
STORIES TO BE TOLD!

16. Archiving
Sami history
and
indigenous
rights in
Norway.

17. Gunnerus.no
Special collections

18. Archives: Access to the knowledge from the past
Easy to grasp?
Who takes the decisions?
Who acts?

19. Visuality and memory: Gunnerus.no

20. Repositories as
sources
Norwegian list
«Memory of the
World» ; the
National hymn by
Bjørnson

21. Repositories as
sources
Norwegian list
«Memory of the
World» ; the
National hymn by
Bjørnson

22. Collections of Books
Thorvald Boeck (1835-1901) – donated his collections to the Gunnerus
Library, received in 1901; appr. 30.000 vols.

23. Henrik Wergeland 1808-1845, Boeck collection,
Drafts of the Constitution

24. Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) book collection, donated in 1947
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.

25. Broder Lysholm Knudtzon (1788-1864)

26. The Knudtzon room – Bertel Thorvaldsen; Amor
and Bacchus

27. The Knudtzon room – marketing through crime novels

28. Norways first published book, Missale

29. From Catalogues to metadata

30. The Knudtzon collection; novels and poetry

31. The Knudtzon collection – science; Charles Darwin and his inspirator
Robert Chambers…

32. Wikipedia (cit.):
“Lara, A Tale is a
rhymed, tragic
narrative poem by
Lord Byron; first
published in 1814.
The first work
composed after
Byron abandoned the
idea of giving up
writing and buying
back his copyrights, it
is regarded by critics
as a continuation of
the autobiographical
work begun in The
Corsair.[1] Unlike The
Corsair, it was
published
anonymously, in
conjunction with
Samuel Rogers'
Jacqueline”

33. The Knudtzon collection -
Austen Henry Layard
(1817-1894)

34. The Knu

35. •Archives,
repositories,
libraries and
their future?

37. Digital literacy
•Digital libraries provide an
environment in which its users
can access and interact directly
with a variety of online
resources.
•Users interact with libraries and
information in new ways
•Facilitates the communication
between users and publishers
•Open Access possibilities
created
•New opportunities for scholarly
communication
Source: Exploring the Digital Library by Kay Johnson, 2005

38. How is it done?
•Others sources by the library
•Proquest
•Gale 18th century books
•Fagets blogg

39. Nasjonal biblioteket: Inquiring information

40. Digital Scholars-online resources

41. Repositories-big data-research data
•H-net humanities and social
scienceshttp://www.h-
net.org/lists/
•Project Gutenberg:
gutenberg.net
•Europeana

42. Digital
Humanities
A new research area established. An interdisciplinary
field of study located at the intersection of
humanities scholarship and computational
technologies.
Its key purpose is to investigate how digital
methodologoies can be used to enhance and
transform research in the Arts and Social Sciences.
Its also employs traditional humanistic skills to
analyse modern digital artefacts and scrutinize
contemporary digital culture.
How do we curate those?

43. Transmedia approach of
documentation/preservation/interpretation of objects of
the past.
Expand the public dissemination of knowledge
Being part of a DH community gives you the strong
sense of the benefits of crossing the traditional academic
boundaries! (Deegan 2010)

46. Technology holds a
promise for
Humanities but how
do we curate all the
digital data?

47. The research aims.
The process and the team.
Development and drawbacks.
Lessons taught.

48. THE TEAM

49. Virtual/immersive: The Interactive Museum

50. Physical Objects
3D technology
Interactive tools
Enactive Knowldege

51. MUBIL
Project
Libro 3d
1. Augmented Book
2. Information
Landscape
3. Virtual Laboratory
Mubil Project

52. Augmented book
Immersive exploration of a digital copy of the real manuscript placed in a three-dimensional
context
Outside-in immersive exploration

53. Virtual Laboratory
The user plays the role of an apprentice of an ancient alchemy laboratory
immersive exploration

54. The game storyboard
Goal: creation of a specific drug using the instruments available in an alchemy laboratory of XVI century.
Tre drug formula is obtain from the Lonicer’s
Kreuterbuch

56. Can the introduction of virtual
and immersive technologies in
disseminating the contents of a
library-archive collection enrich
the contemporary perception
about libraries?

57. Hammer´s book collection: Adam Lonitzers Kreuterbuch (1569?),
frontispiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPav9ZhU-g

58. EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

59. THE PHYSICAL EXPERIMENT

60. Configuration
Oculus Rift HMD
Joypad

63. Information Landscape
Immersive exploration of a books, by placing the book content in an abstract interactive environment
Inside-out immersive exploration

66. The Challenge

67. Phase 1
Funded by The National Library of Norway and NTNU

68. ■How can we create
consciousness and
engangement?

69. Archaeology quiz
https://www.ntnu.no/blogg
er/ub-ark4/

70. Collaborative Session

71. Games
in
ARK4

72. Application Design
Playful Game Activities to Support Cultural
Heritage Engagement (Learning)
Gamified
Educational

73. Dissemination and future developments
All applications are contributing to promote Gunnerus Library contexts
through public events.
Extend the application to other experiments.

74. The Participatory Museum

76. Thanks!
• Contact: aalekas@gmail.com
• Websites: mubil.no