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The Travelling Backpack includes a series of resources to enable accessible and inclusive cultural experiences: physical objects, devices, software, and multimedia content. It provides a set of small portable objects, both physical objects and digital content, to bring cultural heritage where people live and spend time. These objects include replicas of cultural objects that are exhibited in the museum, which are connected to multimedia content (e.g. textual description, audio description, images, videos) through a QR code, with the goal of providing information about the cultural object. The backpack is worn by a person (museum educator, volunteer person, school student) who acts as art mediator to bring the backpack around, for example in suburbs, meeting places of the local communities, day-care centers and other relevant locations.

For inquiries about The Travelling Backpack please contact Annamaria Recupero at the Santa Chiara Fab Lab – University of Siena: annamaria.recupero@gmail.com

The Magic Casket includes a series of physical and digital tools contained in a case to bring cultural heritage outside museums, for example in nursing homes and day-care. It has a series of resources to engage older adults in laboratory activities inspired by cultural heritage: physical objects, electronic components with their related software, and multimedia content. The laboratory activities can take two forms: one scenario is based on the storytelling to narrate and record personal stories related to, for example, historical events and local traditions; the other scenario is based on the multisensory exploration of heritage with possible crafting activities. The outputs of the laboratory activities (e.g., recorded stories, crafted objects) can be used in other laboratory activities or to enrich the museum exhibits.

For inquiries about The Magic Casket please contact Annamaria Recupero at the Santa Chiara Fab Lab – University of Siena: annamaria.recupero@gmail.com

The Screen is a web application, which can be run on both mobile and desktop devices. It can be used in two different usage scenarios. In the “Virtual Exhibition”, the users explore the content on their own. In the “Virtual Guided Tour”, a remote tour guide can speak to the participants and show the exhibits with screen linking. If questions arise, the users can raise their hand and directly communicate with the tour guide.

For inquiries about The Screen please contact Gunther Reisinger at NOUS: g.reisinger@nousdigital.com