MUVI

I’ve just been reading about a virtual museum project based not on physical objects but around collective community storytelling. It is the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia, MUVI for short. From what I can tell this website collects and exhibits radio broadcasts and old photographs from Lombardia’s history. Family photos and stories belonging to personal family collections are collected. Also, readers of the website are invited to submit stories related to these cultural artifacts. This virtual museum is a constantly evolving community project that could not be recreated as effectively, if at all, in a traditional brick and mortar museum.

http://www.url.it/muvi/

sorry, the website is in Italian

Here is an interesting article, written in English, about the project, from Design Issues magazine.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/desi.2006.22.3.29#search=%22MUVI%20design%20issues%22