How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how awkward, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is Associate Professor at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and the coordinator of its Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab. Since 2018, she is also the Museum Lab group leader at RISE (Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies).

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Introduction: Emerging Technologies, Museums and Difficult Heritage
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Alexandra Bounia and Antigone Heraclidou
*This open access chapter is available thanks to the support of the CYENS Centre of Excellence.

Part I: Revealing Missing or Underrepresented Narratives

Chapter 1. The Rosewood Heritage& VR Project: Engaging Difficult Histories with Digital Technologies
Edward González-Tennant

Chapter 2. Preserving Queer Voices
Sharon Webb

Chapter 3. Womens Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies and AI: Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlins Industrial History Collection
Anna Foka, Jenny Attemark and Fredrik Wahlberg

Part II: Eliciting Affective and Empathetic Responses

Chapter 4.New Realities for New Museum Experiences: Virtual and Augmented Realities for Difficult Heritage in Iraq
Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin

Chapter 5. Dimensions in Testimony: Affect, Holograms and New Curatorial Challenges
Elena Stylianou

Chapter 6. We Cant Fix the Future If They dont Recognise Our Past: The Uses of Immersive Technologies for a Child Sexual Abuse Museum in Australia
Lily Hibberd

Chapter 7. Experiencing the Anthropocene: The Contested Heritage of Climate Breakdown
Colin Sterling

Part III: Creating a Sense of Presence, Immersion and Embodiment

Chapter 8. Designing Interactions: On the Use of Digital Technologies in the Musealisation of Difficult Built Heritage
Francesca Lanz and Elena Montanari

Chapter 9. Dark Manoeuvres: Digitally Reincorporating the Marginalized Body in the Museum
Lily Hibberd and Sarah Kenderdine
*This open access chapter is available thanks to the support of the Labratory for Experimental Museology (eM+).

Chapter 10. A Museum of Deepfakes? Potentials and Pitfalls for Deep Learning Technologies   
Jenny Kidd and Arran J. Rees

Afterword
Alexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone Heraclidou

Index