The Worcester Art Museum has hopes to attract more families, children, and millennials to the museum using interactive exhibits. Our project goal was to collect data on the effectiveness of various aspects of exhibit design for the WAM to use in future exhibits and to propose improvements for the current Medieval Gallery. We assessed the effectiveness of audience engagement of the Medieval Gallery and non- renovated exhibits. To do this, we created various data gathering tools such as observational rubrics and path tracking methods. After obtaining all of this information, the team designed and piloted a new digital media element to the medieval exhibit. Our work was completed through the Worcester Community Project Center with help from our Sponsor, Jeffrey Forgeng.

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Creator

• Richards, Amanda Lee
• Mills, Allyson Kathryn
• Halverson, Jake
• Carrero, Kyle D

Subject

• Culture
• Computing
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043017-234247

Keyword

• Interactive multimedia
• Museum exhibits
• Museums

Advisor

• Rosbach, Derren
• Dehner, Corey

Year

• 2017

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• Worcester Art Museum

Date created

• 2017-04-30

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright