On September 23-26 the second International Symposium on Virtual Archaeology Museums & Cultural Tourism will take place in Delphi, Greece. Dr. Areti Damala from the meSch team at the University of Strathclyde, will be presenting the full paper “The Loupe: An Educational AR application for Learning to Look at Ancient Greek Art” on the 24th of September.

About the symposium:

“The international symposium entitled VIRTUAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Museums & Cultural Tourism aims at investigating all new trends in the field of digital (e.g., online, virtual) museums, virtual communities, archaeometric studies, digital cultural tourism and related topics.

The symposium is open to students, museum and cultural heritage professionals, scholars, archaeologists, historians, ethnologists, IT specialists and engineers and others working on digital applications in cultural heritage, public and private museums, etc. The symposium is intended to enable collaborations and projects on Greek and international archaeological case studies.”

More information

• Take a look at the conference website: http://vamct.syros.aegean.gr/2015/aims-scope.shtml
• Go directly to the programme: http://vamct.syros.aegean.gr/2015/vamct15_full_programme.pdf