**5. Cyber - artifacts and cultural heritage**

In the way of studying and interpreting the nature of complex historical processes and their connections as a whole, implementation using individual virtual elements is increasingly present on a global scale. Important promoters of virtualization include, in particular, German, Anglo-Saxon, Francophone and

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Sino-Japanese university experts, who apply forms of virtualization and cyberspace in the analysis of the history of the human population.

This situation manifests itself in several patterns (eg from short clips to rehearsal and repetition alternatives, etc.), which are accessible to the public, especially in the online interface. In the educational process and especially in the interpretation of the history of architecture, especially in the presentation of building changes in urban planning and differences in the architecture of monuments, we can consider the following forms as decisive elements:


**Figure 2.** *Example: 3D castle Slanec [22].*

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literature and previous graphic and sound analyzes play a significant role in the creation. A typical example is the exhibition at The Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC), which documents one of its exhibitions of the social changes of selected Canadian cities from the 19th and 20th centuries through old photographs and period sounds (**Figure 4**) or he - line exhibition of the floor plan of the city of the Manhattan district from 1812 to the present (**Figure 5**).

• reconstructions of the then portraits of the most important figures, which changed the character of the history of cities (eg kings, statesmen, architects, etc.). Selected reconstructions are created mainly with preserved artifacts (eg. sculptures, busts, paintings, graphics, photographs and others).

Today, there are a relatively large number of professional websites on several Internet browsers that visually process the history of individual European and non-European cities. Nevertheless, no website (with the exception of the National American Archive with its own virtual museum) offers the online user historical [26] and factual interactions (except for pre - stored facts and graphic recordings). Almost all websites lack the alternative of creating and documenting the history and visualization of cultural artifacts.

**Figure 3.** *Example: 3D floor plan of the city of Lucca [23].*

**Figure 4.** *Sample: Exhibition entitled "Urban Life Through Two Lense" at VMC [24].*

**Figure 5.** *Sample: Online exhibitions of Manhattan Island history [25].*
