What is the role of material culture in understanding the past, with a female point of view? ‘Affective alterations’ is the name of our new exhibition inside our MIA virtual museum that explores this question. • In Timothy LeCain’s ‘The Matter of History’ and Peter Miller’s ‘History and its objects’, we can find a new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organism and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social and cultural, but history itself has a lack of a female point of view or woman’s perspective, when we consider what it means to think historically with artworks and to treat them as compelling evidence of a shared history of women, human and nature.