In May 2024, the museum was getting ready to unveil the largest exhibition ever presented at the Musée de la civilisation.
The goal of this exhibition was to encourage visitors to reflect on how our culture, generations and the different eras of Québec have evolved throughout its history. The interactive digital installations we had to design needed not only to make new information easier to learn, but also to illustrate various historical periods.
The museum called on our expertise to contribute to part of this ambitious project.
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Borne du Québec peuplé - Peuplement du Québec
In collaboration with Université Laval’s Cartography department and the Museum team, we designed maps illustrating the settlement of Québec, offered an overview of migrations and land occupation, and showcased archaeological remains, Indigenous stories, Québec film classics and many other iconic elements of our culture across the ages.
Together with the museum team, we agreed that it was essential to animate 9 historical periods, from the ice age 21,700 years ago to the present day. Given the richness of the content, it was essential to focus on the key elements so as not to overwhelm visitors with information too complex to digest.
To create an even more personalized experience and draw visitors’ attention to our screensavers, we created specific animations for each of our kiosks.
First, rethinking the digital label system was an ambitious project in itself. Our mission was to replace the physical signs used to identify objects in the museum’s display cases. Since these cases often hold many objects, changing their layout and updating the information was laborious.
A digital tool built in collaboration with the Museum team, based on an archive library and a CMS, was therefore designed to simplify and speed up the management of this data. This same platform also gave users access to more content about the objects during their visit.
Today, the digital label kiosks offer visitors an enhanced and much richer experience.
Robert un des collaborateurs sur le projet, navigue une borne d'étiquettes numériques qui supporte les vitrines d'objets
Here is the data collected since the start of the project and the exhibition in May 2024
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