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Making Complex History Explorable: The Art of Digital Interpretation

Pattern in Practice: How we structured layered historical archives and GIS mapping for the Manitoba Oil Museum without flattening the story Some histories do not fit neatly into a timeline. They live in maps.In photographs.Handwritten notes.Industry records.Family stories.Community memory.In the tension between economic opportunity, land use, regulation, and lived experience. That was the challenge behind the Manitoba Oil Museum and Interpretive Centre. MOMIC tells the story of oil extraction in Manitoba, especially in the southwest corner of the province, where oil has shaped communities, work, land, and identity for generations. Manitoba’s oil history… Read More