Virtual museum of the magical town of Zacatlan, Puebla

Abstract

Virtual museums are essential sites; they favor the dissemination of science; making it possible to learn about cultural and natural aspects of other countries. The objective of this project is to create the virtual museum of the Magic Town of Zacatlán using tools such as Adobe Animate®, Adobe Dreamweaver®, CorelDRAW® and Adobe Photoshop®; with information on flora, fauna, gastronomy, culture and history collected by research teachers and students from the Higher Technological Institute of the Sierra Norte of Puebla (ITSSNP). The work team is multidisciplinary, made up of research teachers with specialties in computer science and biology; as well as students of Computer Science and Forestry Engineering. The municipality of Zacatlán, Puebla requires meeting requirements to retain the title of magical town; among them having a natural and cultural museum, which is why the virtual page is proposed to the Citizen Committee of the Pueblo Mágico and the Municipal Council of Chroniclers of Zacatlán. Giving rise to the signing of a collaboration agreement to integrate cultural and historical information. The results obtained so far are four modules; The first module is fauna, made up of birds, reptiles and mammals. The bird section has a record of thirty-five endemic, migratory and resident birds. The second section describes seven reptiles and the last section refers to seven mammals. Includes image, common name, scientific name, taxonomy, sounds and animations. Maps of each locality and rural community were designed to offer information on the species in their habitat. The second flora module details twenty-nine species with image, common name, scientific name and taxonomy. The third culture module integrates gastronomic information and traditional festivals. The fourth newspaper library module houses copies of 100 newspapers from 1894 to 2018 and 100 magazines from 1948 to 2016 with historical, cultural, social and political information about Zacatlán. The last module contains virtual tours of tourist attractions in the historic center of the municipality.