Museums and the Web
An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.
600 Million Years
Institution:
Museum Victoria
Designer:
Designed, developed and built in-house
Category:
Exhibition
Why
Complex scientific information is presented in an engaging and accessible manner, using a variety of approaches, including:
- an interactive Timeline which provides a high level overview of "600 million years" and is also an interesting path to access detailed content
- numerous, high quality videos with experts explaining and demonstrating
- "Fossil Fun" - four games to make the content more accessible for children
- a series of "Infosheets" which provide invaluable, easy to understand, information. These have resulted in considerable online discussion (via the online comment facility).
Finally a virtual tour of the exhibition provides a teaser, or reminder, of the exhibition experience.
This site effectively enhances the on-site exhibition by providing an extensive range of high quality content, including: video, images, curatorial interpretation, children's interactive games and a virtual tour of the exhibition.