AI and Cultural Heritage

Oct 12

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Designing Heritage Content with AI: Inside the REBOOT Content Design Training

How do you turn a manuscript, a sculpture or a museum collection into content people want to play, watch and explore, without losing the integrity of the sources? That question is at the heart of the AI-assisted Content Design Training, part of the REBOOT Training Week in Cergy-Pontoise, 19–23 October 2026.

The training treats AI as a creative partner that still needs critical human judgement. Participants first see how heritage institutions are already using digital storytelling. At the Château de Versailles

, they try the “Dialogue with the Sculptures” experience and meet the digital team behind it. At the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, they hear how game-based interpretation and gamification can deepen visitor engagement.

The workshops give participants practical tools. The Digital Collage workshop looks at the environmental footprint of digital technologies, so that creative choices are also responsible ones. A session on water heritage and AI shows how accessible tools can extract information from historical maps and databases and visualise change over time, with no programming experience needed.

The core of the training is a day of hands-on exercises that follow the full content design workflow. Participants verify their sources, compose and deliver their narratives, develop audiovisual content, select and match artworks and media, and use AI to generate and refine material. They then publish and evaluate the result as a multimedia narrative on the REBOOT platform. The question about authenticity, artistic freedom, distortion and scarilege will also be debated.

The week closes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where manuscripts related to Rhodes, including manuscript Latin 6067, will inspire the transnational REBOOT game. Source, story and AI come together: heritage content designed with care, creativity and ethics.