A moment when you are allowed to run in the museum. Visitors are invited to use this interactive booth to explore the area around the museum using a digital interpretation installation. The screen progresses around the route of the Taipinghsan Medical Heritage Trail at the speed the visitor is moving (be that walking, jogging, running) marrying up two of the interpretive themes in the museum – heritage of the local area and the benefits of exercise. If you like what you see, you can pick up a leaflet and go explore the trail in real life, in the streets surrounding the museum.
This one’s featured in the section on sensory and interactive interpretation in my book Interpreting Heritage: a guide to planning and practice, which is one year old this week. Thanks to anyone who’s purchased a copy since we launched it a year ago. I enjoy getting emails from readers, so please get in touch if you’d like to let me know what you think – good, bad or otherwise.
Image: thanks to Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society