Abstract:

In this paper, we will be concerned in what manner the Museum of Education - Xeniseum of the University of Crete, as a diversified environment of cultural experience and learning, can revise visitors' pretensions with regard to educational cultural heritage. As it is well known, museums, apart from schools, are considered to be privileged areas for the formation of cultural identities because of the socialization they perform within them, as "a contradiction" to the dominant school memory and its historicity, which they incorporate. The use of digital media can be a tool for interpreting material and intangible evidence of the history of education in an interactive, emotional and emancipatory way. For this reason, selected museum objects (as "social objects" and "memoryspaces") give new meaning with the use of augmented reality technologies within a differentiated artistic environment. The aim is the real to "communicate" with the "visual" to activate school memories and experiences so that the visitor can have an active intervention "from below" in the museological achievement itself. Thus, the museum through the "sharing" of technology is required to create new social meanings in terms of the digital projection and interaction of culture, and particularly the symbolic way in which it perceives its social educational past and its contributions to daily reality. Refocusing the present from the past through a new historical“materialism” of the exhibits aims to create a new collective / cultural identity.

Keywords:

Museum of education, augmented reality, innovative digital software, cultural identity.