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.

List of Illustrations 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. Women’s Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies and AI: Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlin’s 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 Can’t Fix the Future If They don’t 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

“This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship…(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation.” Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology