Department of Cultural Heritage

National identity longitudinally reinforced through museum tourism

Employing Interaction Ritual Chains theory, this study examines how museum tourism reinforces collective national identity through mutual focus and emotional entrainment among visitors within shared ritual settings, and traces its post-visit continuity and sedimentation at the in...

A random forest isoscape model of bioavailable Sr for South America: a focus on southern Brazil

In recent years, advances in machine learning have greatly improved the generation of maps showing the geographic distribution of isotope ratios (isoscapes), which have become essential tools for environmental, mobility and provenance studies in both modern and archaeological con...

The role of preventive conservation measures in mitigation of deterioration risk in archaeological sites

Purpose This article explores the role of preventive conservation in mitigating the risk of deterioration of archaeological sites. It clarifies the distinction between preventive and curative conservation. It demonstrates that using an integrated preventive conservation framework...

Design and validation of a user experience questionnaire for storytelling-oriented video mapping applications

Abstract Video Mapping, also known as projection mapping, has become an increasingly popular means of telling the story of cultural assets and the context around it by projecting images onto their surface. In this context, a tool to evaluate the narrative effectiveness of project...

‘Reconstruction-plus-regeneration-plus-adaptation’: transforming old Tbilisi during and after socialism

Abstract In the late 1970s, the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was widely recognised across the socialist world as a leader in urban heritage conservation. Its capital city, Tbilisi, became a showcase of what Chief Architect Shota Kavlashvili defined as a new formula for hist...