Interactivity

Ever been to a museum that makes use of interactvity? I recently been to Corpus, a museum in Oegstgeest. This museum is about the human body. You walk through the human body, with a headset on. The headset reacts to movement, so it knows where in the museum you are and what story goes with it. By making use of this technology, this museum is very accessible for everyone. In a simple manner it explains to you how your body works. This is not only done by the headset, but of course also through all the things you see around you, because you're actually walking through the inside of a body. There are also little movies projected on where you walk, to illustrate how the things in your body really work.

In my opinion, this kind of information technology is a great way to interest children in musea. At the moment, interactivity is used a lot in the musea in the Netherlands. Not all in the way that Corpus uses it, but these musea make use of little interactivities, like touchscreen computers and games in order to learn the children about a subject.

Musea always have had a boring image, but with interactivity it can be a lot more fun. Therefore, I think that the use of interactivity is a very good idea!