Qual é o teu legado?: a renovação digital do Museu do Coa como instrumento de aproximação às suas comunidades

Abstract

The Coa Museum, open in 2010, is the entryway to the Coa Valley Archaeological Park. The visit to the rock art sites at the Coa is an authentic, irreplaceable experience that does not need ‘artifices’ to be enjoyed beyond a captivating guide delivering scientifically approved knowledge to visitors on the art and its natural and cultural context. Thus, the Museum’s exhibition programme was originally thought of as a complement to the visit to the Park that could summarize the scientific information collected in the last decades in the Coa Valley as well as presenting the most relevant rock imagery of a territory that extends for about 200 km2 . A decade after inauguration, taking advantage of the augmented and virtual reality devices that have now been made available, time had come to update the exhibit, making the visit even more captivating. Therefore, this chapter intends to present, discuss, and muse on the digital renovation recently implemented at the Coa Museum.