Summer of AR
Four outstanding examples of cultural institutions putting augmented reality to work.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the St. Louis Art Museum partnered again with our Guru Experience Co. team to repurpose our user-generated story platform for their temporary exhibition "The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century". This time, visitors could choose to create, share, and save in historical archives their experiences and stories around Hip Hop.
Similar to a previous iteration, the "Roots & Routes" interactive, visitors recorded a story about a memorable moment they had with Hip Hop, and could even add photos along with dates and locations. The museum team then had a chance to review the stories for appropriateness, and, with a click of a button, publish them for other visitors to the exhibitions to explore. Unlike the old rendition of the interactive, the stories will live in an HBCU partner's digital archives for scholars and fans to explore in perpetuity.
Projects like this are why we do this work: technology that makes room for visitors' own voices, then keeps them. Have ideas for a story-collection project of your own? Or a novel way to use our CMS for something totally custom?
Behind the scenes of how we turn museum stories into interactive, accessible experiences - plus what we’re learning along the way
