Poppy Day
Cap Sciences, France
In April 2015, over the course of one weekend, 6 science
centres across France built six robots – one in each city – with the help of their audiences. The robots were Poppy robots, an open source and 3D-printed android designed by the INRIA lab in France. At Cap Sciences ...read more
Virtual Reality Night
Cap Sciences, France
During one evening at Cap Sciences, visitors were engaged in the topic of virtual reality (VR) through several means, involving creativity and personal interrogations. For example, visitors were invited to use and test the Oculus Rift headset (a device for viewing 3-D) or make Google Cardboard VR (virtual reality) headsets for ...read more
Hackathon
Gallen-Kellala Museum, Finland
Project summary: The Gallen-Kallela Museum is a small cultural historical museum dedicated to preserving and keeping relevant the heritage of the well-known Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931). The GallenKallela hackathon was a two-day “hack marathon” in February 2015 during which a group of interested people worked together to create a series ...read more
Chester Beatty’s Creative Lab for Teens
Chester Beatty Library, Ireland
The Chester Beatty Library holds a collection of rare books and manuscripts from all over the world. Chester Beatty’s Creative Lab for Teens is the first in-house club set-up for teens aged 12-17 years and was established in January 2014. The programme was originally set-up with the advice of the ...read more
Making headway: Bringing Hatting Home
Hat Works Museum of Hatting, UK
Hatworks, is a museum located in an old mill in Stockport, is the UK’s only museum dedicated to the hatting industry, hats and headwear. Making Headway: Bringing Hatting Home was a project delivered between April 2013 and November 2014. It consisted of a series ...read more
Mobile Application Development
Language Museum (Taalmuseum), Netherlands
The Taalmuseum (Language Museum) in Leiden opened in 2015 and is dedicated to language and its use . The museum has a strong digital component. In 2015 the museum partnered with Avans University of Applied Sciences to develop ideas for language-related apps with students from the ...read more
Via Marsala 1-53
MAMBo / Museum of Modern Art, Bologna (Museo d’Arte Moderna du
Bologna), Italy
MAMBo – the Museum of Modern Art Bologna is a purpose-designed centre of modern and experimental art. The via Marsala 1-53 project explored the concept of the “city”. The city of Bologna was a starting point for an ...read more
NYC Museum MediaLab Meetup – 3D Workshop Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world. Through a series of workshops or “3D Fundays”, held at the ...read more
Memory Workshop
Museums of Lappeenranta, Finland
Memory Workshop was an exploration to one’s own mind, memories and personal history using a variety of techniques from image training and museum collections. The project was initiated in response to the wealth of existing research hat states the beneficial effects of arts and culture and ...read more
Exhibition and Research Project (Dance)
Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance in cooperation with
Museums of South-Trøndelag, Norway
Over 3 years, the project will create three innovative and interactive dance exhibitions, accompanied by several larger events, at three museum venues in Trondheim, all part of the Museums of South-Trøndelag, Norway. These exhibitions will disseminate the ...read more