Penal heritage in Criminocorpus’ Virtual Museum (2007–2017)

 This article presents the work done in the website Criminocorpus with regard to the safeguarding of penal history. Since 2016, this site has become the first digital museum dedicated to the history of justice and the penal and prison heritage is well represented through various forms of content offered in the museum, its review of the history and the research resources on Criminocorpus. In view of the fragility of this heritage and of the urgency of the situation, Criminocorpus has worked to safeguard and preserve the history by developing original tools (virtual prison visits, virtual exhibitions, the collaborative project “HUGO. Heritage of justice sites”, etc.).