Top of the new technologies that museums have adopted Best smart health innovation

This Saturday, make way for International Museum Day! Although these places expose us to the past, they may soon pioneer a new technological era. If younger children used to dodge the paintings and other works of art that their teacher showed them, new technologies, such as virtual reality, could reverse the trend and attract crowds, young and old. We have thus gathered for you the best means that museums have found to integrate into the digital era!

Augmented reality, new best friend of museums?

They did everything to attract young people: organize exhibitions on themes that speak to them, make their galleries accessible for free or at very low prices, offer world-famous works of art… Nothing to do, most children continue to go back to the museum. Understandable, you might say, at their age children probably think more about how to fight the end boss on their console. Because yes, younger generations have grown up with technology that they handle with almost frightening ease. So why would old dusty pictures catch their attention?

By making them alive, of course!

In museums and other exhibition spaces, the augmented reality technology has already proven itself, allowing visitors to add a playful touch to their experience.

In 2011, the Sukiennice Gallery of the National Museum in Krakow used augmented reality for its exhibition “Stories behind the paintings”To add context to the works presented, giving life to their protagonists.

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The Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto also offers a dive into the Jurassic era through augmented reality. Visitors, equipped with their smartphone or tablet, will be able to view the dinosaurs they come across in 3D, as in real life! An immersive experience that should delight young audiences, usually fond of missing reptiles.

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However, right now, this is the British Museum who is talking about him on the subject. Using virtual reality technology (headset Samsung Gear VR mandatory), it transports visitors to the Bronze Age. In a dome fitted out and equipped with digital recreations of objects from this period, the "passengers" of this time machine will be able to find themselves by the fireside, in an immersion as realistic as possible.

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Museums that want to make us feel old

While some establishments rely on our thirst for knowledge of history, others will play with our nostalgia by exhibiting everyday objects, or worse, objects with which you grew up! Does that make you look old? It's desired.

In the United States, a teenager gathered his impressive collection of more than 200 Apple Mac computers to make an exhibition of it. Very rare models can be admired, and if some can be disinterested in objects that have been part of our daily lives, children see the first Macs as antiques in the same way as the Venus de Milo.

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In South Africa, the Warrior Toy Museum takes you back to childhood by gathering toys from yesteryear, trains, cars, dolls … Not smart health connected but memorable.

Through this initiative, museums encourage artists to build our modern mythology, through various exhibitions of objects or works that we never thought we would see under glass so quickly. The youngest can thus be attracted by the toys which made the happiness of their parents, in their time.

The opportunity of 3D printing

At the museum, we tell you over and over again, you only touch with your eyes ! However, the trend is reversed with the revolutionary technology that is 3D printing. Visitors can now get as close as possible and touch replicas of works of art that we wouldn't even ordinarily display. The goal is therefore to allow visitors to touch and interact with works of art through replicas produced using 3D printing technology.

The project Smart Replicas set up in the Netherlands combines scanning and 3D printing technologies with traditional ceramic techniques to create replicas of fragile museum pieces that are usually kept away from visitors' hands, and sometimes even out of sight.

For its part, the exhibition Real to Relic: Museums in 3D from the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Queensland offers a presentation of 3D prints of fossil replicas, for example.

For the moment, the 3-dimensional scanning techniques still have limits, failing to reproduce all the shapes (hollow, complex folds, etc.). Human intervention is still important today, but technologies are evolving quickly.

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Museums socialize

Teenagers and social media is a great love story. Permanently smart health connected, hungry for selfies and statutes to post, how to take advantage of their weakness to lure them into the meanders of a museum? Easy, almost all cultural places like this have a website and half of them are social media. Museums are entering the social era: apps for smartphones, social networks, and even game consoles at the Louvre recently.

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram serve as a link and contact between potential visitors and museums. Via Facebook, cultural establishments can interact, relay information, present and organize events. This whole communication process allows you to be active and visible on social networks, to share and exchange with the public while being original to stand out.

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The Google Art Project is an online service that allows you to visit the main museums in the world, obviously depending on their partnership.

In parallel, the Big palace launched a contest 2 years ago on Twitter and Instagram: through the application "The Roman Factory", Internet users were invited to take a selfie with a universe of Antiquity in the background with the hashtag #moiempereur. To win: entry to the exhibition or a trip to Rome.

Museums thus compete in imagination to get as close as possible to new lifestyles. The approach between art, history and the public is changing and improving. Cultural places are more and more inclined to democratize art by making it accessible to all, and the new technologies offered by our modern era are a perfect springboard.

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