Reset-MPF : construire et animer un musée virtuel d’archéologie

Born in 1923 under the impetus of a group of scholars, the Musée Préhistorique Finistérien (MPF) in Penmarc'h (Finistère) is now closed due to a lack of local support to ensure its development. The transfer of its collections to a State repository should not mean the death of this museum space: the Reset-MPF project proposes to create a digital model of the museum to be explored through augmented reality, allowing the public and researchers to visit the original collections free of charge and at a distance by integrating expert data, but also opening up to certain distant archaeological sites and paleoenvironments through virtual reality. This project also allows a new reflexive look at the constitution of collections and knowledge about the regional past. It has three main lines of action: 1. safeguarding and enhancing the MPF's heritage, both its collections and the many monuments around the building; 2. sharing knowledge and enhancing research; 3. revitalising the scientific study of the collections (putting them into an archaeological context, expertise of the artefacts, history of the collections, of the actors and of the collection practices in prehistory). The team that supports the Reset-MPF project covers four scientific fields that we propose to connect closely: archaeology, paleoenvironment, epistemology and computer science. It will define the contours and main structures of a larger project supported by European or regional subsidies.