4. Ethnographic open-air museums: Black Country
Living Museum (UK) (Photo: Birmingham Mail)
What are Archaeological Open-Air Museums?
5. Historic houses: Lincoln Home National Historic Site
(USA) (Photo: Daniel Schwen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)
What are Archaeological Open-Air Museums?
6. Theme Parks: Puy du Fou (FR)
(Photo: Par Padpo — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 3.0)
What are Archaeological Open-Air Museums?
7. Informal learning is “the lifelong process in which
people learn from everyday experience”
(Jeffs & Smith 1996).
Demonstrations provide the connection:
• between text books and reality,
• between knowledge learned by heart and knowledge
gained by experience
7
Interpretation & Learning
8. Oerlinghausen (DE)
"A major goal of
interpretation is to
increase each
visitor's enjoyment
and understanding
of the site,
monument, or
park."
(John H. Jameson, USA)
Interpretation & Learning
12. 12
Beatrice Birra Storytelling at the African Art Museum,
Wikipedia
Computer game "Gods of Rome“, Gameloft
(Image: godsofrome.fandom.com, CC-BY-SA)
Interpretation & Learning
13. 13
Darth Maul, Star Wars
(Photo: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Interpretation & Learning
20. 20
The Public
yes, 27%
rather yes, 40%
maybe, 20%
rather no, 7%
no, 6%
Would you like to play a game
which will be teaching you about
historical facts?
23. 23
Cooperation
Other technical issues
• Serving all screens and operating systems
• Wi-Fi coverage
• Too heavy apps
• Improving Field of View (FOV)
• Better brightness
• Battery life
• 3D sensing capabilities
• No Open Access for Users or Museums
25. 25
Cooperation
It is both what you do and how you do it
• Make the app short, simple and powerful
• is it worth downloading at all?
• Does it add to the museum presentation?
• Stick to your concept
• Don’t stretch yourself too thin
• Use the right formats for the right ideas
29. 29
Conclusion
No
Need
to
Argue
Image cover “the cranberries”, By Source, Fair use
Opening slide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14723643
Closing slide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1557535