The Academy Museum is opening with an Oscars experience more akin to a theme park attraction. Expect more like it in future museums.
The Warner Bros. Studio Tour will start from a new building with classic Hollywood memorabilia and new superhero- and Harry Potter-themed interactive exhibits.
“We’re starting to acknowledge that people learn in different ways,” Girard says. “There are people who learn by reading, people who learn by listening and then there are people, myself included, who are ‘tactilers’ and want to experience something and hold onto an object or pull a lever. That’s a valid way of learning and exploring. I’m excited by the way museums are pivoting rather than being like, ‘Let me impart information upon you.
Thinkwell creative executive Cynthia Sharpe started in museum spaces more than two decades ago and has seen them branch into the worlds of tech to today attempting to create more all-encompassing environments. “You can’t say we’re just going to have a white box with some touch-screen kiosks,” Sharpe says of modern business and audience demands. “That’s not going to fly.”Warner Bros.
“There was a different approach to the design of these places in the past,” Baker says. “The artifact itself was the thing that mattered, but then we started getting to setting. What’s the setting? I can’t think of a better example of that than the Getty Villa. That is a themed space. But those artifacts, in that space, feel more authentic, which is ironic, because they are authentic — but I feel immersed in that space, in a traditional environment that created that art.
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