The most recent technological revolution, concerning web and “ICT”, not only changed individual and collective behaviors, but also
allowed experiences no possible before: a real time communication, regardless of the distances; an extended access to disjointed data and
sources; the shift in different realities – missing or entirely imaginary.
Nowadays, we can think about a new concept of museum, much more inclusive than “objects container”: now the museum involves entire
countries, entire ecosystems, entire regions. We can speak of “museum outside of the museum”, to extend museum “storytelling” to a
regional scale, beyond the walls of the traditional museum. On a regional scale experiments entirely convincing have not yet been carried
out, but from this point of view cultural lands can be visited as great open air museums, to find objects, artworks or signs: the whole
land is a “collection” to be preserved, to be presented and to be interpreted.
Thus the visit allows to elicit outstanding objects, to read into landscapes with different filters. Both the physical and virtual visit
seem to be a “tour” (Minucciani and Garnero, 2013). To create a virtual tourism prototypal station, we need several and unconventional geometrical
data (shared geographic databases, DTMs, digital orthoimages and angle shots, modeling with spherical cameras, ...), thematic
data (related to cultural content) and no conventional input units to move and to observe how and where the observer prefers. Authors
report here their experience to carry out a prototypal station, able to relate geomatics references to cultural content and to offer a whole
experience, involving users also from the sensory point of view.
That’s nowadays a specific purpose of new technologies applied to cultural heritage