Hybrid Museum Experiences: Theory and Design

The Gift app is a hybrid museum experience that uses new technologies to augment, expand, or alter the physical experience of visiting a museum. It incorporates the digital and physical, creates social, yet personal and intimate experiences, and explores ways to balance visitor participation and museum curation. This book reports on a 3-year cross-disciplinary research project in which artists, design researchers, and museum professionals have collaborated to create technology-mediated experiences that merge with the museum environment.

Format: Hardback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2022
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

So, you're the lucky one who's getting this gift? It's truly a delightful surprise! Someone who knows you very well has visited the museum and went out of their way to curate a special collection of items they thought you would cherish. They even took photos and left heartfelt messages for you to discover.

This is the welcoming message for the "Gift" app, a unique and innovative platform designed to create a truly personalized museum experience. Hybrid Museum Experiences utilize cutting-edge technologies to enhance, expand, or transform the physical visit to a museum. These experiences are carefully crafted to be intimately connected with the physical space and exhibits, allowing visitors to engage with them in a unique and immersive way.

In this book, we delve into three distinct forms of hybridity in museum experiences. We explore how digital technologies can be seamlessly integrated with physical spaces, creating social yet personal and intimate encounters. We also examine strategies to strike a balance between visitor participation and museum curation, ensuring that both aspects are seamlessly integrated into the overall experience.

This book is the result of a comprehensive 3-year cross-disciplinary research project, where artists, design researchers, and museum professionals have collaborated to create technology-mediated experiences that seamlessly blend with the museum environment. Through their collective efforts, they have pushed the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of museums, creating immersive and captivating experiences that leave a lasting impact on visitors.

Weight: 496g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789463726443