Upcoming and recent events
Digital Heritage Events in 2026
Next on the calendar: EuroMed 2026, organised from Cyprus and open to the world online. Alongside it, our September appearances in Turin and at MuseumNext explore the Memory Twin Framework in conservation and digital collections.
Upcoming · 2–5 November 2026 · Online, organised from Cyprus
EuroMed 2026: Advancing the Future of the Past
Twenty years of digital heritage, and a question that continues to grow in importance: how do we turn what we capture into knowledge that lasts?
The International Conference on Digital Heritage returns from 2 to 5 November 2026, marking the twentieth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean conference series, established in 2006. Under the theme “Advancing the Future of the Past”, EuroMed 2026 brings research and practice into conversation around the documentation, preservation and understanding of cultural heritage in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
The conference is organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage (MNEMOSYNE) at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol, with Marinos Ioannides and Xenophon Zabulis as conference chairs. Its institutional home is Cyprus, but this year’s edition is entirely online: there is no in-person attendance in Limassol. Researchers, heritage professionals and interested participants can therefore join without travelling.
From digital capture to connected knowledge
The call for participation highlights high-quality, holistic data acquisition and knowledge management systems and graphs in digital cultural heritage. These subjects speak directly to the questions explored by the Memory Twin Framework: not simply whether a monument or object can be recorded, but how its evidence, context and interpretation can remain connected and usable over time.
For those working with 3D digitisation, conservation documentation and paradata, EuroMed offers a setting to consider the relationship between technical quality and lasting scholarly value. A digital record becomes more useful when the decisions behind it can be understood, examined and carried forward. That is the conversation this anniversary edition invites us to continue.
Join EuroMed 2026
Limited free places are available, and registration is required for all attendees. Book through the official registration link below and consult the conference website for programme updates and participation details.
01 · 8 – 10 September 2026 · Turin
Keynote at CAH 2026, Polytechnic University of Turin
Prof. Marinos Ioannides, Director of the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, will deliver a keynote speech at the 10th International Conference on Conservation of Architectural Heritage, hosted by the Polytechnic University of Turin from 8 to 10 September 2026.
The keynote sets out the case for treating documentation as knowledge rather than output. Architectural heritage is measured, surveyed and modelled continuously, yet the conditions of that work, the instruments, the constraints, the interpretive decisions, are rarely recorded alongside the result. The Memory Twin Framework argues that this paradata is the part that makes a record usable decades later, and that conservation practice is where its absence is felt most sharply.
CAH brings together conservation architects, engineers, archaeologists and heritage researchers from across Europe and beyond, and offers a setting where the framework can be tested against built-heritage practice rather than digital theory alone.
02 · 21 – 22 September 2026 · Virtual
Memory Twin at the MuseumNext Digital Collections Summit 2026
The Memory Twin Framework continues to gain international recognition, with its latest presentation scheduled for the MuseumNext Digital Collections Summit 2026, one of the leading global events exploring the future of digital collections, museum technology, and cultural heritage innovation.
Beyond Digitisation: Building Knowledge-Rich Heritage Ecosystems
As museums increasingly move beyond traditional digitisation towards more integrated, knowledge-driven approaches, the Memory Twin methodology offers a new perspective on how cultural heritage can be preserved, understood, and shared in the digital age.
The presentation, "Beyond 3D Models: Creating a Memory Twin for Malta's Ġgantija Archaeological Park", will showcase how Heritage Malta has applied the Memory Twin framework to one of the world's most significant prehistoric monuments.
While conventional digitisation often focuses on creating digital surrogates of objects and sites, Memory Twins seek to preserve something far more valuable: the knowledge surrounding them.
By connecting 3D documentation with archaeology, conservation records, research data, oral histories, interpretation, and cultural memory, Memory Twins transform digital assets into living knowledge ecosystems that can continue to evolve as new information emerges.
The Ġgantija Memory Twin
The case study presented at MuseumNext focuses on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ġgantija, where Heritage Malta has been exploring how digital technologies can be used to bring together decades of research, conservation interventions, documentation, and interpretation within a single interconnected environment.
The project demonstrates how enriched digital heritage models can support:
- Long-term knowledge preservation
- Research and scholarly collaboration
- Conservation planning and monitoring
- Visitor engagement and interpretation
- Future immersive experiences
- Digital stewardship of cultural heritage
Rather than treating digitisation as the end goal, the Memory Twin framework sees digital documentation as the foundation upon which richer and more meaningful heritage experiences can be built.
Why This Matters
Museums, archives, and heritage organisations worldwide are facing an important challenge: how to preserve not only cultural assets, but also the knowledge, context, and stories that give them meaning.
As technologies such as artificial intelligence, spatial computing, knowledge graphs, and immersive experiences continue to evolve, the need for structured, trustworthy, and interconnected heritage knowledge becomes increasingly important.
Memory Twins provide a framework for addressing this challenge by ensuring that cultural heritage is documented not as isolated digital files, but as part of a connected and evolving knowledge ecosystem.
Join the Conversation
The MuseumNext Digital Collections Summit brings together museum professionals, technologists, collection managers, and digital heritage practitioners from around the world to discuss the future of digital collections.
The inclusion of the Memory Twin framework within this international programme represents another important opportunity to advance discussions around knowledge-centred digitisation and the future of cultural heritage stewardship.
As the sector continues to explore what comes after digitisation, Memory Twins invite us to ask a fundamental question:
What if we could preserve not only the heritage itself, but everything we know about it?