The purpose was to create an ethnographic space that could spread the cultural heritage of the region of Barroso, using innovative technologies with the ability to engage the visitor through browsing with its different contents.
The city council of Montalegre decided to promote the recovery of both cultural and natural heritage, improving its natural resources, and enhancing the practices of the rural Barroso area. The goal was to promote the objects, the knowledge and the culture of this region in a technological way to reach different publics.
Currently, being a museum of passive exhibition is not enough. It is necessary to promote direct contact with the different knowledge available, and to give the visitor an unforgettable, educational and striking experience.
Contents produced by DISPLAX™ edited and managed through an user friendly backoffice.The three units deployed within the museum provide access, in an interactive way, to information concerning agricultural cycles and festivities in the region during the year.In the unit placed at the Tourist Office of the Ecomuseum, visitors can have access to all information and demographic features across the council of Montalegre, as well as its parishes.
The contents were developed by DISPLAX™ in order to promote, in a educational way, the interaction of visitors with the region’s cultural assets. The means used in the exhibition are: games with terms used in the smugglers’ route during the Portuguese dictatorship period, games containing pictures of the region’s inhabitants, water effects and interactions with the Ecomuseum’s logo. These contents can be edited and managed in a simple way through the Moovit’s backoffice.DISPLAX™ MOOVIT promotes moments of entertainment for the whole family, acting as an innovative and involving mean of communication with realistic effects which detect body movements through high-precision sensors. These contents can be used simultaneously with the possibility of shifting through the backoffice’s timeline programming.
Interactive Showcase equipped with DISPLAX™ SKIN technology located in the window of the Tourist Office of the ECOMUSEUM. This showcase incorporates a 32’’ LCD and was designed to be used when the Tourist Office is closed, in particularly at night.In terms of contents this technology displays photographs of the main attractions of the Barroso region. As a result, the Ecomuseum can communicate with people even when is closed.
Conceptual Unit developed for the Ecomuseum of Barroso.Interactive table which allows the visitor to have access to geographical assets of the region in a practical way through an interactive table with a 42’’ screen. This system is complemented with the projection of contents on a wall so all visitors can view the application.
Conceptual Unit developed for the Ecomuseum of Barroso.The DISPLAX™ CONCEPT EXPERIENCE TUNNEL was developed to provide the visitor with an interactive experience as he walks along a corridor which contains side projections and reacts to body movements, thus providing a striking interaction.The contents were developed by DISPLAX™ can be edited and managed in a simple way through the application’s backoffice.
Conceptual Unit developed for the Ecomuseum of Barroso.This system includes several objects representing the culture of the Barroso region. Once the visitor grabs those objects more information about them appear on the interactive screen embedded in the desk.The table also contains a holographic representation with the logo of the Ecomuseum of Barroso.
Conceptual Unit developed for the Ecomuseum of Barroso.This unit includes 2 interactive 42’’ LCDs with video contents which enable the user to choose the video he wants to see in widescreen mode. All videos run intermittently in the background.The videos being played in the DISPLAX™ CONCEPT TOUCH VIDEOWALL reflect various rural life situations of the Barroso Region.
Conceptual Unit developed for the Ecomuseum of Barroso.This is a system developed and addressed to younger public. The system includes a painting software which enables children to make drawings and paintings on an interactive board with the help of a device similar to a pen.The DISPLAX™ CONCEPT CRAYON WALL is placed in an area of the Ecomuseum where children can develop learning activities monitored by tutors.
"The Ecomuseum of Barroso is an innovative and unique project which merges new technologies with the Cultural Heritage of the People of Barroso.
In this space, the Interpretative Centre of the Ecomuseum of Barroso break through the old rules of museology and introduce a new concept - "Touch please".
During an hour, the visitor may enjoy a sensorial voyage, and will encounter our identity by challenging each visitor to travel across the territory in search of the places he wants to know.
"Come and see a world that is changing..." Which DISPLAX™ so well helps to last…”
