Nov. 11 – What happens when Italian cultural heritage meets with the most advanced technologies and scientific research? The exhibition “Memory / Future – Technologies for Cultural Heritage,” organized by Fondazione Rosselli with the support of the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with some of the leading Italian research organizations, including the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, will tell us. The exhibition will be officially opened tomorrow in Geneva; and is a journey through technologies that help know, protect, preserve, enhance, manage, and enjoy cultural heritage, thus ensuring the future of a collective memory. The technologies and scientific research look to the future, and may soon become the best way to keep alive historical awareness and integrate social development and sustainability. This is demonstrated by the numerous projects and technological applications that the exhibition offers: the use of particle accelerators – a much smaller version of CERN’s LHC – is used for the analysis of art compositions or for dating of archaeological discoveries; the electronic nose detects mold, which may ruin archives; lasers are used for cleaning and restoring artifacts and ancient materials; drones serve for remote sensing land and architectural assets after a natural disaster; computer technology, computer vision, scanning and digital imaging create virtual museums and archives, as in the case of large virtual museum at the National Research Council of Iraq.
