Monteagudo Visitor Center
Multimodal Storytelling Across Millennia
Multimodal Storytelling Across Millennia
At the foot of Murcia’s historic castle, the Monteagudo Visitor Center tells a story that spans five millennia, from the Argaric Bronze Age, through Iberian settlements and Roman urbanism, to Arab medieval influence. Its galleries bring together real artefacts, ancient tools, ceramics, coinage, with dioramas, scale models and contextual media, creating a rich, layered picture of the site’s long history.
That richness is also the challenge: different formats, inconsistent metadata and fragmented storytelling make it hard to present the site as one continuous narrative. MNEME’s European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) tools are being used to unite Monteagudo’s physical and reconstructed content under a shared framework; the site’s five-thousand-year story reads as one coherent thread, for scholars and visitors alike.
What MNEME brings
The work starts with high-fidelity photogrammetry and laser scanning of more than 100 key artefacts, Iberian fibulae, Roman amphorae, and diorama scenes, producing 3D models and high-resolution panoramic imagery. Heritage data specialists are transcribing and translating gallery texts and archival photographs into structured records, so everything meets the same metadata standards used across MNEME’s other pilots.
AI routines then analyse the visual and textual material for stylistic features and time markers, feeding a knowledge graph that can draw explicit connections across periods, linking, for example, a Bronze Age axe to its cultural descendants in Iberian metalwork.
The experience
Visitors will be able to slide through the site’s epochs on an interactive “5,000-Year Timeline” touchscreen, watching contextual media, like an animated reconstruction of an Iberian hilltop fort, appear directly alongside the artefacts on display. AR tablets overlay reconstructed scenes onto the physical dioramas: point one at a Bronze Age hut model and watch its inhabitants come to life going about their daily tasks.
A parallel remote session connects Monteagudo to MNEME’s other pilot sites; letting participants compare a Roman amphora from Monteagudo directly against related pieces from the Rhône and Celje collections.
Goals for this pilot
At least 100 key items digitized and semantically annotated; 90%+ visitor satisfaction with the digital tours; a 20%+ increase in time spent at digital installations; three or more local schools taking part in MNEME-based learning; 30+ semantic links between Monteagudo’s Roman-era artefacts and other pilot collections; asset load times under 3 seconds.