On April 10th, 2015, the first meSch enhanced exhibition opened to the public at Museon, a Dutch museum. ‘The Hague and the Atlantic Wall – War in the City of Peace’ was the first-ever exhibition to use meSch technology. meSch built a smart interactive environment using replicas of museum objects embedded with sensors. At the end of the visit, visitors could print a personalised postcard that reflected their visit. It also invited them to visit the locations outside the museum that they had visited in the exhibition and to upload personal memories to a purpose-built online map that connected the exhibition to the city. This post summarises how the exhibition worked.
Below are some photos from the set-up of the Atlantikwall exhibition at Museon in The Hague.
This is me checking on my baby: a touch table that allows visitors to share their memories from the Nazi occupation with other museum visitors and visitors online.
Visitors could then view this same map online on a dedicated website. Below is a view of the Atlantic Wall map online. The small window on the left shows the specific content for a point
The picture below was taken during the building of the exhibition.
A fun part of meSch’s involvement in The Hague and the Atlantic Wall was the creation of smart replicas. Visitors could choose a replica upon entry to get content from different perspectives and different languages.
This page contains info and links relating to the Android App of the digital content made available to visitors. We ran user testing over a number of days, to determine user preferences for mode of interaction. In other words, we tested to determine if people preferred the app, the replicas or the smart cards.
