Heritage Malta Leads The Way In Digital Heritage At Ministry’s IT Forum

Newspost │25 November 2025

Heritage Malta, in collaboration with the Ministry for Culture, Lands and Local Government, hosted the Ministry’s second Information Technology Forum for senior IT officials and representatives from its various agencies and departments. The event served as a platform to strengthen collaboration across entities, share best practices, and showcase Heritage Malta’s growing leadership in the digital transformation of Malta’s cultural heritage landscape.

Following a workshop at Fort St Angelo, delegates visited Heritage Malta’s Head Office in Bighi, Kalkara, where they were given guided tours of the agency’s newly established data centre, the Technology and Experience Development (TED) Unit’s offices and scanning laboratories, and the Diagnostic Science Laboratories. The visit provided first-hand insight into Heritage Malta’s invaluable work in digitisation, conservation science, and technological innovation.

The new data centre at Bighi, together with a mirrored facility being set up at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta, ensures secure storage and redundancy for the nation’s expanding digital heritage collection.

Heritage Malta’s commitment to digital excellence extends beyond infrastructure. The agency has also just launched eMuseum, a dynamic digital platform giving the public direct access to thousands of artefacts from Malta’s national collection. Through eMuseum, users can explore objects online, discover their stories, and curate personal collections – another innovative step towards the agency’s mission of making Malta’s history truly accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Earlier this year, Heritage Malta was also officially certified as Europeana’s 44th Aggregator and Malta’s National Aggregator for Cultural Heritage, allowing Maltese collections to be viewed on Europeana, the European Union’s main cultural heritage platform.

Through these achievements in digital innovation, Heritage Malta ensures that our islands’ past continues to be preserved, experienced, and celebrated in the future.