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Museums become one of the places where we could learn so many things. It’s much more engaging compared to only learning from the textbook since you get to explore the place—not to forget the extravagant objects displayed inside.
Knowing that fact, we believe that it will be a waste if we can’t maximize the capabilities of such a fun learning place and grab the attention of the visitors.
There are different ways that you can try to make museums more attractive, and adding an immersive augmented reality (AR) technology to complement the whole experience can be a first-of-its-kind idea to level up how people devour the whole information.
AR turns the whole exploring experience into a more fun and interesting one as the content will be brought to life—not to mention that everyone can be mesmerized and involved in the content.
If you happen to work or own a museum, here are 4 examples of how you can maximize AR experiences for museum exploration!
If we're talking about art museums, it's obviously a place where we appreciate the arts. Sometimes, looking at them only could be pretty much boring—but you can make it much more interactive by blending in digital AR experiences above the arts!
People only need to scan the arts displayed, and they will see an overlaid, popping-up AR content in front of the arts. Even better, you can also insert a sound effect, description, or even animations to make the viewing experiences much better. This is actually a none-like-other experience, and not all places can offer you such view.
Take this example from us. We try to leverage the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" artwork by Johannes Vermeer by arranging each layer on top of the artwork—which will make the artwork appear as if they pop up.
Historical museums can unveil a lot of interesting stories regarding the exhibited objects. It can store lots of historical moments as well.
But the problem is, there can be a lot to devour in one sitting—especially if we only display long texts to describe the event or moment.
Honestly, a good copywriting will help a lot in terms of telling the story, but the way we access the story can be made more interesting. This is where AR can help you.
You can put a QR code on each installation, which will lead people to the storytelling of how the events or moments went by according to the objects displayed.
Not only does the storytelling appear more engaging and come to life, it can also include interactive animations that reenact the exact moments or situations of the story.
Oftentimes, we might get lost in the way when you visit a very huge museum. You don’t know where to find your ways—sometimes even with guides installed on every corner of the museum.
So when we talk about that, navigation will be much needed. Instead of providing a printed map, you can also consider having an AR-based navigation system on the museum!
If you have your own application, this will work greatly. People only need to scan the environment around the museum using their mobile devices and the application, and they can view arrows directing them throughout the building to find a specific location.
With this alternative, they can get a realistic visualization of the directions, without having to spend much effort to think of where they should get going.
If you want to hype up the aftermath of exploring experience, you can also give a little bit of a twist by making a trivia quiz with AR experiences!
Once everyone’s done with their museum trip, you can instruct them to scan the provided AR marker, which will direct them to the AR quiz itself.
They can pop it up around them in real life and guess the right answers according to what they’ve learned in the museum.
People who get all the answers right will get their own exclusive rewards—probably free official merchandise from your museum, if you have them.
To help you support these kinds of AR activities in the museum, it can only be done right if you have a supporting platform that is super easy and simple to use. And Assemblr Studio can help provide you solutions!
You can create your own AR projects up to your needs—be it for games, presentation, storytelling, or even just a visualization.
We provide different elements to decorate your project, from thousands of 2D & 3D objects, importing customized 3D from the marketplace, or even uploading your own pictures or videos. It’s as simple as drag-and-drop—you’re not gonna need any coding or designing skills at first!
Sounds interesting? You can give it a try now—right on your web browser! Should you need to customize your projects, you can also reach us out to help you visualize and enliven your ideas. We’d love to make it happen!
