Children's Museum Houston

The Children’s Museum of Houston and four partner museums will develop a product to enable family visitors to extend and customize their learning by combining the interactive components of a given exhibit with additional resources provided through any form of personal computer technology from smartphone to tablet to desktop computer. The goal is three-fold: (1) to design an effective system for museums to use in providing family visitors with mobile access to digital media content at specific exhibits; (2) to evaluate visitor outcomes related to the experience that these exhibits afford as compared to the experience without the additions; and (3) to make these enhancements available to other museums. The result will be an open source and copyright free system, backed by extensive testing, which will be available to all museums.