Interactive Museum at KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2010

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Essen and the surrounding Ruhr area are the 2010 European Capital of Culture, so if you only visit Essen once, make it this year! There will be more events happening in Essen than ever before, with over 300 cultural projects and 2,500 events taking place in Essen and the surrounding area in 2010. The Ruhr area itself is home to 200 museums, with approximately 1 million visitors per year.
 
As part of this, KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2010 is organising a special “Interactive Museum” area within the show where eye-catching, educational and interactive museum exhibits from across Europe will be on show, from informational and wayfinding kiosks, to 3D virtualisations and innovative interactive installations.
 
In the modern world, it is becoming increasingly clear that to engage, inform and entertain their visitors, museums and other such cultural points of interest must offer interactive exhibits which visitors can touch and explore for themselves. The familiar sight “Do not touch the exhibits” is now being replaced with more visitor friendly signs inviting visitors to engage actively and physically with exhibits. Young users, in particular, are better engaged by more interactive exhibits.
 
At KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2010, a range of the latest interactive solutions for museums will be showcased, including, amongst many others:

3D Kiosk Models for Estonian Sculptor
 
The Amandus Adamson museum in Estonia, which had limited space for exhibiting all the artworks of the sculptor well-known sculptor Amandus Adamson, has used innovative 3D kiosks to enable his entire work to be presented to visitors. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!
 
 

 
 
Interactive Book Reader for German Library
 
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, Germany, commissioned a digital book reader to enable visitors to negotiate their vast collection of books and manuscripts more easily and in greater detail. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SEE A VIDEO OF THIS IN ACTION!
 

Interactive Kiosk for German Museum
 
The Rauch Möbelwerke deploys interactive kiosks to engage their visitors and convey the company’s history, as well as explore the different furniture styles over the century in an informative and intuitive manner. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!
 

 
Interactive Painting at the Heinz Nixdorf Forum
 
At the Heinz Nixdorf Forum, a copy of the painting "Merchant Gisze" by Hans Hohlbein the Younger was converted into an interactive exhibit with 32 sensor fields placed within the area of the painting. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
 

Artist Working with Interactive Holograms
 
Michael Bleyenberg is an artist who works with "Light Architecture". He will show at the Interactive Museum his Eyescape X, a hologram embedded within two glass panels. As the viewers moves towards the hologram, the light, colour and shapes of the hologram alters fluidly to create an ephemeral and protean work of art. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
 
 
 

Virtual 3D Exploration of Medieval Bremens
 
A project was established in Bremen to celebrate the town’s medieval roots. The town is represented and explored in a 3D virtual tour which includes archeological evidence and excavations to create a virtual version of the medieval town. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
 
 

Interactive "Living Book"
 
The Living Book is an interactive media installation combining book, film, 3D animations and sound. As the book’s pages are turned, films are accurately projected onto the surface of the printed pages. The user is thus able to control the content of the book and the user’s senses of sight, touch, hearing and smell are all addressed through this interactive kiosk. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
 
 
Come to KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2010 to see for yourself how interactive technologies are transforming the museum experience, and find out more about all the exciting events taking place in Essen this June here.
 
 
 
Museum Workshops
 
To compliment the “Interactive Museum”, we will also be running a Workshop on interactive museum projects in German on the morning of the 15th June 2010, and in English on the afternoon of the 16th June 2010. Find out more about this here.