Abreu, JoãoCarvalho, Margarida Ribeiro Ferreira deCenteno, Maria JoãoPina, Helena FigueiredoRezola, Maria InáciaCavaleiro Rodrigues, JoséSimões-Ferreira, Isabel2019-09-202019-09-202018-12Abreu, J.G. de, Carvalho, M., Centeno, M.J., Pina, H., Rezola, M.I., Cavaleiro Rodrigues, J. & Simões Ferreira, I. (2018). The virtual museum as the activation and rewriting of the urban landscape. In A.G. Câmara, C. Bottaini, D. Alves, H. Murteira, H. Barreia, M.L. Botelho, & P.S. Rodrigues (eds.) Cities in the Digital Age, Exploring past, present and future (pp. 153-160).DOI: https://doi.org/10.21747/9789898970107/citi978-989-8970-10-7http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/10517Artigo baseado na comunicação proferida no International Conference Lost and Transformed Cities: A Digital Perspective, realizado na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas /Universidade Nova de Lisboa, em Lisboa, Portugal, 17-18 novembro 2016The city as a virtual museum addresses a diffuse conception of patrimony and an experience of a digital “hybrid space” (Kluitenberg, 2010). Such a museum is marked by a conflation of presence and distance and a nexus of blurred boundaries between intimacy and publicness, thus contributing to re - imagine our experience in the contemporary networked spatiality. The city’s material culture enhanced by people’s perceptions and memories is now empowered by digital networks giving rise to a “locational humanism” (Holmes, 2003) and a collective activation of urban landscapes. Bearing in mind the importance of place and locality within the context of a digital age, this paper focuses on the city as a virtual museum, a relational space which creates an urban allegori zation and an immersion effect on the digital networks.engUrban landscapeVirtual museumDigital networksbook parthttps://doi.org/10.21747/9789898970107/citi