Laurien de Gelder, Karolina Badzmierowska: Travelling through the Middle Ages: the Cross Culture Timeline in the Allard Pierson

A beautiful bronze incense burner from Egypt and a shining golden sword from the National Museum in Budapest. What do they have in common? Find out using the Cross Culture Timeline. The Cross Culture Timeline (CCT) is a digital tool developed to support a travelling exhibition curated by CEMEC (Connecting Early Medieval European Collections) consortium of ten European museums and cultural institutions. The aim of the tool is to place objects from different museum collections in Europe in their historical and geographical context and to connect them by themes.  This presentation shows how the CEMEC institutions, together with the technical partner Noho, developed and adjusted the CCT to support the semi-permanent exhibition spaces in the Allard Pierson in Amsterdam.

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