For some time, at both a national and international level, museums have stopped using the format of the basic information leaflet and photographs so that the institution and its activities might be visible on the Internet. It is no longer just an issue of disseminating the knowledge that heritage contains by using the Internet to exhibit, for example, on-line collections; rather it is about bringing different sectors of the public into closer contact with the knowledge that heritage contains by using the Internet. This means that museum websites should offer specific, digitalised scientific objects, interpreted for specific audiences within different formats: audio, video, interactive.

On the websites of Catalan museums we find educational resources in line with heritage content, which could be used in the teaching and learning process of students. These materials and activities aligned with heritage content, offer schools the possibility of working on basic skills and curriculum-based contents using heritage and ICT use as a basis. On mNACTEC’s web portal we find, for example, the material “The National Science and Technology Museum of Catalonia – A resource for learning about technology” and, specifically, under the heading “Educational Resources” we find videos and teaching guides. The teacher could show the video “The Industrial Revolution. The Steam Engine” (duration 3’58”) to the class or the students could watch it individually. Once this activity has been done, the teacher could encourage reflection on the fact that this material comes from a primary source, from an institution in the tertiary sector… And the students could complete the worksheet “The Motor of the Industrial Revolution: The Steam Engine”.

This video and the activities could be used in the teaching and learning process of the “Industry” teaching unit or for working on economic activity in the secondary sector in the social sciences area of the third year of ESO (compulsory secondary education), the year in which the steam engine as the motor of the industrial revolution is studied. The work done on a proposal like this involves mainly linguistic and audiovisual communicative skills.