Enhanced artifacts

Visitors to the National Geographic Museum will encounter one of the largest and most valuable collections of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. This iPad-based installation shares the excitement of discovering such a rare treasure.

This multi-tiered interactive installation provides a variety of activities and behind-the-scenes expert insight to reveal how this unusual Los Angeles native was discovered, understood, and exhibited.

Mysteries surrounding animals and environments from the past are unraveled through these two activity-based interactives.

Seventeen interactive case explorers amplify the historic exhibit of native Alaskan artifacts at Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center.

Interactive kiosks at The Autry National Center enhance their exhibit, Art of Native American Basketry, with an experience that draws connections across cultures via the unique craft of basket weaving.

The artwork within a 15th-century medieval masterpiece is revealed, enhanced, and interpreted in the enchanting interfaces of this Web site and installation.

Visitors can browse, magnify and examine the pages of a remarkable notebook that comprehensively documents of the making of Fantasia and reveals its many special effects techniques.

Mounted next to a display case of Mickey Mouse-inspired merchandise from the 1930s, this playful interactive provides tours, information and supplemental images of many of the artifacts in the collection.

Hundreds of Walt Disney’s awards are on display in this museum’s lobby where interactive screens provide additional insight about the accolades in the collection.

Visitors read and study a facsimile of this key political document, in which Mexico ceded regions of the southwest to the U.S., while contemporary interviews play out competing interpretations of the treaty.

High-resolution interactive images of animal hide paintings give an unprecedented view of these 18th-century artifacts that depict early encounters in New Mexico’s history.

Historic photographs, an environmental sound installation, and an interactive guest book transports visitors into the past to learn about the spectacular history of the Marion Davies Guest House.

The organizational scheme for Thomas Jefferson’s library—the foundation of the Library of Congress—forms the interactive method for accessing every volume in the Jefferson collection and special tomes on display.

Two monumental Bibles mark the transition from pen to press: one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts and the most famous first printed book are paired for exploration in this insightful interactive experience.

The creative acts of our Founding Fathers are illuminated through enhanced electronic documents that reveal their thinking, their inspiration, and their iterative, collaborative process.

Abraham Lincoln’s famous words are interpreted for visitors, and can be examined in detail, on two large touch screens showcasing the Gettysburg Address.

Artifacts in a display case are liberated for discovery in this interactive station that illustrates the diverse writing systems for recording knowledge in the early Americas.

An exhibit interactive and Web site piece together a rare Japanese scroll for visitors to explore, transcribe, translate, and understand in its entirety.

Two expansive interactive tables engage groups in diverse activities that reveal the strategic and technological aspects of the Great War as well as its cultural and political legacies.

Recreated in three dimensions, this interactive whaling ship lets visitors examine every notable feature above and below decks to learn about life on board a vehicle that brought us America’s first oil industry.