It’s refreshing when museums invite visitors to vote on a meaningful and relevant question – and one which can have impact on the future of the display. The recent Work in Progress exhibition involved a series of interactive prototype exhibits …
There’s more to any (half-decent) heritage site visit than reading. Engage the visitors’ senses and you’ll encourage them not only to interact with your site, but also to take in information in a different ways. And that always leads to better outcomes for your audiences …
‘How much noise can you make with Annie’s pram?’ visitors are asked as they enter the museum. The infamous fishwife used to sell ware from her pram, making as much noise as she could …
What does home mean to you? It’s a purposefully broad question that this interactive, fact-finding exhibition asks visitors to respond to in a range of ways. Making Home: a Place to Be invites asks broad questions about …
A moment when you are allowed to run in the museum. Visitors are invited to use this interactive booth to explore the area around the museum using a digital interpretation installation. The screen progresses around the route of …
The partition of Poland in the early 1800s meant Polish Jews became citizens of three different countries – Austria, Prussia and Russia. In the museum, visitors are invited to sit at a table and imagine choosing which country …
This interpretation starts out so well. The text reads: ‘Christmas 1294 at Conwy Castle. The weather outside is frightful, there are some unwelcome visitors at the door and there’s not much booze left …
What a splendid way of bringing together words and objects in an interactive that rhymes and encourages visitors to touch …
Are you as tall as a cave lion, a dwarf mammoth or a woolly rhinoceros? This attractive wall graphic invites visitors to place themselves in the context of Ice Age natural history by …
I like it when museums invite visitors to use their imagination, especially when it relates to the message they’re trying to get across. Inspired by the tombs found in the Irish landscape …
Art galleries sometimes find it difficult to engage very young visitors with paintings. This example of a site-specific soft-play installation challenges that, however …
