What is Architectural Virtual Museum

Favors the dissemination of knowledge and the heritage enhancement, correlating, reporting and showing architectures, even distant from each other. In some ways the digital museum can be seen as specific declinations of dedicated digital archive, i.e. of a more general database. In most cases it collects photographs and architectural drawings. The greatest potential is in teaching and tourism. Their capacity is expressed even more in the case of archaeological sites where the models can represent reconstructive hypotheses. Thanks to virtual applications and ICT, perhaps the museums’ encyclopedic approach of the nineteenth century can find a new raison d'être, in particular according to cultural contents of the digital age.

The Representation of Architectural Heritage in the Digital Age

Stefano Brusaporci (L'Aquila University, Italy)