Fresh ideas from museums around the globe in your inbox each week. Museums are typically thought of as destinations to house and display art, artefacts and collections of cultural interest. To do this, many institutions are turning to games, in their various forms, to both engage and educate those who walk through their doors.
Games are great tools for learning. Beyond just a learning perspective, games also foster a wonderful sense of connection, and there are many examples involving cultural institutions.
The experience of your visitors need not stop at passively consuming your exhibitions. Oftentimes, individuals experience better retention when they can physically or digitally interact with a topic, and to keep things fresh, games can be played in a myriad of ways. One example, the museum offers a game that allows users to design and test their own space rover.
For instance our Rugged Rovers game teaches you about the design process that engineers use to design, test and iterate. It teaches this by doing, but we never explicitly say this is what is happening. This illustrates a great example of how games can provide accessibility to complex topics. The Science Museum could absolutely offer an exhibition devoted to the art of engineering that would provide visitors with valuable information.
But by offering a game, more individuals will better grasp the concepts and engage with the lesson. In-museum games tend to be very short, lasting from only several minutes whereas online games are designed with much longer playing times.
