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kiosk (Palmyre, 2007). Above all we should say that the technical
implications in the archaeological exhibitions are still quiet traditional,
but anyway new technologies are coming into this type of
museums as well.
This paper focuses on exhibition Information Communication
Technology in archaeological site and is aimed at identifying the
tendencies.
Historical overview
The “collaboration” between interactivity and public spaces started
in the first part of the twentieth century when interaction was used
in Museums of Science for educational and social purposes (Basso
Peressut, 1998).
Initially, since its appearance the museum was associated with a
“temple” due to the borrowing of aristocratic values and behaviour
patterns of the first visitors in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries.
Elite aristocracy palaces, which were partially transformed into
museums after the bourgeois revolutions in Europe, were accepted
by the “third estate” that came to power as some sacral space with
expensive and prestigious but odd works of art. In European traditions,
the monarchs’ collections, which then were opened for public
access, were ideological and educational tools to influence the public’s
minds. Together with this, the language of museum messages
had to correspond with the comprehension level of the public majority.
Thus, a great number of untrained and less educated people that
got access to museums in the nineteenth century required a number
of changes in museums activity - from expositions rearrangements to
explanatory texts attached to exhibits, catalogues, guidebooks and
the appearance of new museum occupations like: guides, museum
educators, and interior designers. Traditionally, this method of objects
display in museums is called passive or “hands-off” method
(Gillian, 1998).
Since 1960s and 1970s, the traditional concept of the museum
interpreted as a “temple”, which lasted approximately two hundred
years, was undermined. That period was the initial step to
the “boom”: that was the time when it started to adopt new display
technologies to provide most recent interactive experiments to
their visitors. At that period interaction were mostly mechanical.
This strategy was consumed by the Museums of Science and later
by Science Centres. The most significant change was that instead
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