This innovative interactive museum e-bike offers a place for participation: The multimedia, mobile research station invites citizens and visitors from all social backgrounds to shape science and actively engage in social debates.
NHM on tour supports the Citizen Science Initiative of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM). It intends to improve networking between researchers and everyday experts and to be used for mutual enrichment at events in public spaces and schools. It was conceptualized and developed in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Inseq Design for the intercontextual knowledge transfer between research and society.
NHM on tour Credit: NHM Wien, A. Schumacher
NHM on tour Credit: NHM Wien, A. Schumacher
NHM on tour Credit: NHM Wien, A. Schumacher
NHM on tour Credit: NHM Wien, A. Schumacher
NHM on tour Credit: NHM Wien, A. Schumacher
The exhibition and interaction vehicle, based on a two-lane e-mobile, is used at different locations in the city to provide citizens with low-threshold access to the scientific work of the NHM. NHM on tour is equipped with thematically associated exhibits from the museum’s extensive collection, two touchscreens and Shadowgram – a participatory format that allows visitors to print out their own silhouette as vinyl labels and stick it on any surface together with personal statements. With this wide range of features, NHM on tour reflects socially relevant future issues together with the local population.
Read more on the Ars Electronica Blog.
Credits
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer, Marianne Eisl, Johannes Pöll, Julian Zauner
PARTNER:
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Inseq Design: Jakob Illera