Cultural Heritage and Instagram

Over the past year, we’ve fallen in love with Instagram– and not just because it enables all our I-spy fantasies, but because Instagram photos help to spread the word about cultural heritage.  Whether professional photographers or accidental tourists, IGers (as we’ve been told they are called) are capturing culture in an instant.  Deliberate or not, ancient or contemporary, culture and history are being documented with the press of a thumb and a tap on “share”.   Next to “share”, the “explore” button is our favorite vehicle for traveling the world in search of whatever we want–and we’re not just looking for archaeology!

Protecting, saving and sharing cultural heritage is part of our mission which we strive for in a variety of media- from classrooms and dig sites to our smart phones. Please join in by tagging your photos #culturalheritage.  And if you find something great about Rome, any where in its ancient empire or its contemporary culture, tag it #digrome as well.

Have an IG account?  Follow us at SaveRome.  No account, no worries: you can still see our photos at Instgram.com/SaveRome and all photos tagged #culturalheritage.

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From professional to happenstance, here’s who we are spying:  Darius Arya (Roman Forum, Rome), Allison Roberts (Matrigny house in New Orleans, USA), Benten Tangen (Petra, Jordan), Jerome Foster (El Djem, Tunisa),  Stefdw (lego Ankor Wat), Guilherme Abuchahla (Machu Pichu, Peru), Javiera O’Ryan (Easter Island), Fatihkon (St. Petersburg, Russia), Zanjeer (Balbek, Lebanon), Taylor Murray (Route 66 sign), Agnes Crawford (Last Supper, Taddeo Gaddi)