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Fig. 2.
Multimedia kiosk.
Apollo from Pompeii,
Villa Getty, Los
Angeles, US.
given by the “Sonorous pathway” - a set of natural, traditional and
historical sound will accompany the visitor during the walk (http://
www.paniloriga.comunesantadi.it/site/index.html).
But there is the other way to look at the Information Communication
Technology - technically - as the means of easy access to detailed
information about the object, and physically and conceptually ICT
is disconnected with object. In this case the interactive capabilities
of the ICT are used as an interactive kiosk which allows visitors to
explore the artefact more closely. Visitors going to these exhibitions
want to appreciate not only the aesthetic terms but also to value the
object from the historical perspective. Multimedia kiosks make easy
the process of browsing more information about artefacts.
Villa Getty, and specifically one its halls where the sculpture of
“Apollo from Pompeii” is exhibited, is one of such examples. The
exhibition presents scientific and technical analysis to show the
newly conserved Apollo (http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/
apollo_pompeii/). There is multimedia kiosk where visitors can
independently examine the displayed object, learn about the process
of its restoration (fig. 2). This exhibition is the illustration of interactive
collaboration between computer technologies and museum
exposition.
The other sample of interaction between the archaeological exhibition
and Information Communication Technology is the Chinese
exhibition pavilion Expo 2010 in Shanghai. On the first floor of
the pavilion in the hall “The River of the Wisdom” together with
the enlarged and animated version of the scroll of “Riverside Scene
at the Qingming Festival” (twelfth century, by Zhang Zeduan) the
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