The Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam celebrates its 75th anniversary by showcasing new technologies that help to understand and enjoy cultural heritage in the exhibition ‘The Future for our Past’. This exhibition focuses not only on innovative ways to digitise and showcase cultural heritage, but provides a rich, visual language that is in line with the current youth culture. The exhibition shows augmented reality on mobile devices (showing for example the Forum in Rome in 320 AD), allows to walk your avatar through the ruins and reconstructions of the villa of Livia (the wive of emperor Augustus) or shows the broken statue of a pharao being transported in time to its original state. By focusing on heritage education for youngsters, the exhibition makes a firm statement on where the Future of the Past lies. Together with this exhibition, a series of workshops for cultural heritage experts will be held that shows the workflow behind each setup at the exhibition and allows to get acquainted with the do’s and don’ts of these new technologies. Visual Dimension

1. The Future of our Past: ICT supports cultural heritage understanding Ir. Dani ël Pletinckx Visual Dimension bvba Ename, België

7. Pharao head

8. Pharao head photography

9. Pharao head processed

10. Pharao head reconstructed

11. Potential forms of the statue

13. Greek vase

15. Augmented Reality Rome,Forum Romanum, 1855, glass negative

16. Augmented Reality Forum Romanum, 320 AD, Rome Reborn 2.0

17. Rome Reborn 2.0 Forum Romanum, 320 AD, Rome Reborn 2.0 Integrated in Google Earth

18. Augmented Reality

19. Augmented Reality

20. Augmented Reality

21. Archaeology (Villa di Livia)

22. Archaeology (Villa di Livia)

23. Archaeology (Villa di Livia)

24. Archaeology (Villa di Livia)

25. Archaeology (Villa di Livia)