Museums may not be the first places to spring to mind when it comes to the uptake of cutting-edge technology. But David Reid finds hi-tech is playing an important role in bringing history to life in Italy.
The problem with Italy's antiquities and culture is that there is simply too much.
How do you conserve ancient and priceless artefacts at the same time as letting people come and see them?
Technology can help solve both problems.
One of the most pivotal images of the Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper, is now so fragile that only a few people can see it at any one time.
Visitors file into a glass chamber at the Church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie, while the pollution from the Milan street is sucked out and clean air is blown in.
At 500 years old, the picture is not enduring as well as it might.