Stadtmuseum Aarau

"games@museums": Three digital game prototypes designed for museums.
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The project

Games@museums is a project initiated by Engagement Migros of digital games for museums created in collaboration with students from the Zurich University of the Arts and the Geneva University of Art and Design. Three prototype games have been developed: "Meurtre au musée" (Murder in the Museum): the visitor leads the investigation to find the killer of a work of art; "Art Lover": a chatbot that allows works of art to flirt with visitors; and "Alchemy": an object hunt that triggers the telling of a legend. These games can be adapted to the needs of museums, and will soon be available to all interested museums.

Stadtmuseum Aarau

The Stadtmuseum Aarau is a museum located in Aarau, Switzerland. It conveys the history of the city and explores contemporary social issues. Photography and digital imaging are the focus of exhibitions, events and collaborations.

Contact:

Laura Schuppli - Project Manager - laura@spielkultur.ch

Southbank Centre

"Art By Post": once a month, a creative booklet designed by an artist and sent to isolated people by post or e-mail.
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The project

Born during the first confinement in spring 2020, Art by Post sends free monthly booklets of creative activities (drawings, poetry...) by professional artists to the most isolated people. The activities are designed for anyone with a physical or mental health problem. The aim is to help people feel connected to others and contribute to improving their mental health and well-being. The booklets include stamped envelopes that encourage participants to send their creative work back to the Southbank Centre for a touring exhibition for summer 2021. Over 4,500 participants across the UK have taken part in the project to date. Southbank Centre has recently established partnerships with a range of regional charities and arts organizations to develop a national "community" around the project.

Southbank Centre

The Southbank Centre is the UK's largest multi-arts center, comprising three historic venues (Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Hayward Gallery). Each year, it organizes over 5,000 events covering a wide range of art forms, including the visual arts, contemporary and classical music, performance, comedy and dance. 50% of these events are free to the public. The Southbank Centre also runs numerous education and outreach projects around its programme to ensure maximum social benefit from its cultural and creative activities.

Contact

Jessica Santer - Head of arts education - jessica.santer@southbankcentre.co.uk

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RMN-Grand Palais

"Hyperexpo": a free app to create your own exhibition from the 500,000 images of works held by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
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The project

With this in mind, the RMN-Grand Palais and multimedia artist Pierre GINER are proposing HYPER EXPO, a free application available in English and French, on computer or telephone. It will enable users to create their own exhibition with the works of their choice from a photo library of 500,000 images, placing them on the walls of an imaginary 3D space and then visiting the exhibition with an avatar.

RMN-Grand Palais

Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais is a European cultural operator whose mission is to promote access to culture throughout France. It brings together a wealth of expertise, enabling it to take a cross-disciplinary approach to the challenges and needs of museums. RMN-Grand Palais possesses a range of recognized expertise in the artistic and cultural fields: exhibition organization, visitor reception, mediation, publishing, management of museum stores, art workshops, photographic agency, acquisition of works of art for national collections, cultural engineering, etc. These skills enable it to play a singular role on the museum scene, with one ambition: to promote encounters with art for as many people as possible, art from all cultures, all eras and in all its forms.

Contact

Roei Amit - Digital and Multimedia Manager - roei.amit@rmngp.fr

Paris Museums

"Paris Musées MOOC Sculpture": online courses offering a panorama of the history of sculpture through the 14 museums and heritage sites of the City of Paris.
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The project

This first MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) experience for Paris will enable visitors to discover all the facets of its rich sculpture collection, from the diversity of materials, origins and periods, to the social, ornamental or commemorative function of the works. Original videos and specific mediation tools (interactive timeline, map of sculptures in Paris...) will be offered, as well as a final certification.

Paris Museums

Paris Musées is a local public institution responsible for managing the 12 museums and 2 heritage sites of the City of Paris (Petit Palais, Musée d'Art Moderne, Catacombes, Palais Galliera, Maisons de Victor Hugo, Musée Bourdelle, Musée Carnavalet, etc.). It contributes to their national and international influence, and reinforces their mission as leading cultural facilities serving citizens and visitors alike. The collections at the 14 sites reflect the cultural diversity of the French capital and its rich history (fine art, modern art, decorative arts, Asian art, history, literature, fashion, etc.).

Contact

Scarlett Greco - Digital Manager - scarlett.greco@paris.fr

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

"Musée emportable": a digital, offbeat experience of discovering the museum in the company of the drawings of Zep, famous French comic strip author.
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The project

Le Musée emportable was born of a meeting with the Blouses Roses association, which works with hospitalized children and people in care to bring joy to a daily life of loneliness and difficulty. Twenty or so episodes will enable visitors to discover a history of humorous art, drawn by comic book artist Zep, through the intermediary of a virtual reality headset or a more conventional projection system, depending on the venue and audience concerned. Human mediation and hands-on workshops will be offered to complement this virtual tour, wherever possible.

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

The Palais des beaux-arts de Lille is a museum with a palatial 19th-century architecture and an encyclopedic collection spanning Flanders (Rubens, Van Dyck), Spain (Goya), Italy (Donatello, Raphaël) and France (Delacroix, Monet, Rodin). Highly committed to winning over new audiences, in 2014 he launched the Open Museum programme : an invitation to an unexpected and famous artistic personality to establish a new dialogue with the museum's works and spaces.

Contact

Florence Raymond - Heritage conservation officer - fraymond@mairie-lille.fr

National Museum of Military History

"Art M Back": a virtual reality app that combines sightseeing and creativity.
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The project

Art M Back is a pilot project that combines a traditional museum visit with the visitor's own creativity. Equipped with a virtual reality headset, visitors wander through the corridors of a virtual space where the museum's collections are on display. The visitor chooses a work or object, which is presented in detail. After learning all about it, he or she unlocks a "toolbox" containing all the materials that make up the work or object, and is invited to virtually re-create a work. This project is said to be one of the first virtual reality offerings in a Bulgarian museum.

National Museum of Military History

The National Museum of Military History in Sofia is one of Bulgaria's oldest and most visited heritage institutions. Its collections include weapons, paintings, uniforms, decorations and emblems, as well as a large number of motorized aircraft, helicopters, tanks and other land vehicles.

Contact

Valeria Bineva - Senior expert for international activities - nvim.bg@gmail.com

Lyon Museum of Fine Arts

"Eyes and voice": audio capsules read and recorded by school dropouts to enable visually impaired and blind people to discover 10 museum works.
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The project

The project brings together the cultural and social enterprise Ce Que Mes Yeux Ont Vu, associations and the museum in a collaborative venture. Young people in difficulty or dropping out of school will be invited to record audio descriptions of 10 works in the museum, written by Ce Que Mes Yeux Ont Vu, but they will also be invited to record more personal texts they have written themselves during writing workshops. Recordings will be made in the museum, in front of the works, with the help of an actor. These recordings will be made available to the visually impaired and blind.

Lyon Museum of Fine Arts

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a municipal institution of the City of Lyon, presents collections spanning more than 4,000 years of art history, from ancient Egypt to the 21st century.

Contact

Delphine Rabin - Cultural Service Manager - delphine.rabin@mairie-lyon.fr

MUNCH Museum

"Munch Munch": a creative and fun mobile app for young audiences.
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The project

Munch Munch is a creative and fun mobile application for Norwegian schoolchildren aged 9 to 11. It offers three stages: a discovery of Edvard Munch's work and work on emotions, a drawing workshop inspired by his works, and the transposition of this drawing into space in augmented reality. Children will be able to visualize and interact with works created by other students.

MUNCH Museum

The MUNCH Museum in Oslo is dedicated to the work and life of the artist Edvard Munch. It brings together 1,100 paintings, 7,000 drawings and 18,000 prints by the artist. In 2021, the museum will reopen in a new, custom-designed building along Oslo's waterfront.

Contact

Gerd-Elise Morland - Apprenticeship Manager - gem@munchmuseet.no

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mumok

"Mumok Digital Learning" : introducing children to art and computing, through coding workshops based on museum works.
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The project

Mumok digital learning enables children and young people to discover modern art in an innovative, digital way. After a visit to the museum, participants have access to workshops that combine modern art with a creative computer programme . Using a computer, participants can use code to represent their perception of the works, integrating images, music and text. Learning about the arts and new technologies encourages children to develop their creativity, their taste for art and their knowledge. The mumok's application for the Award aims to open these workshops to all young visitors, and to make them free of charge.

mumok

The Mumok- Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig- is the largest art museum in Austria since the 20th century. It offers all those interested in the arts the chance to discover different aspects of the international and Austrian avant-garde.

Contact

Stephanie Fischer - Art Education Department- stephaniefischier@mumok.at