Integrating material and digital: a new way for cultural heritage

to a greater level of detail than its paper counterpart, but the feeling of being in the archive, the emotion of touching the same paper as the master, and the smell of dust and years past are what makes the experience unique and unforgettable. Emotion, affect, and sensation are essential parts of the experience of heritage, “[y]et museums’ preference for the information over the material, and for learning over [T]he museum’s preoccupation with the information and the way it is juxtaposed to objects ... immediately takes the museum visitor one step beyond the material, physical thing they see displayed before them, away from the emotional and other possibilities that may lie in their sensory interaction with it. —Sandra Dudley [1]