From Museum to Theatre Digital Humanities. Tools Towards Inclusive and Cultural Fruition

The aim of the research From Museum to Theatre concerns the enhancement and promotion of museum artifacts related to mask culture, for their use in innovative and inclusive digital environments and the possibility of making them an active part of their theatrical and social location again. The Erasmus Blended Intensive Program (BIP) workshop was prepared considering the interdisciplinary characteristics of the participants, both faculty and students, all of whom were directed to the focus of Digital Humanities and aimed at innovative and inclusive uses for the promotion of cultural heritage aiming at the involvement of diverse audiences through the use of digital projects, three-dimensional prototyping, VR and AR animations, videos, etc. The project includes three phases to be held in three different European locations: the first and second phases of the study and analysis of classical Greek theater masks and Polish Carolinian masks have already taken place at the Aeolian Archaeological Museum's headquarters in Lipari and at the PJAIT headquarters in Warsaw; the third phase involving the design and creation of a traveling exhibition will take place at the ESAD in Porto.