Aim of the project

DOORS – Digital Incubator for Museums comes to support museums at a moment in which attitudes towards the digitalisation of the sector are changing. The accelerated pace of technological and digital developments and the pressure coming from the competition with on-demand content creates not only haunting insecurity but also a strong desire for change in the sector. Regarded with less scepticism, the digital transformation of museums is now seen as a necessary, urgent, even exciting endeavour. It’s time to develop strategies that incorporate the digital into the DNA of institutions to foster pro-active, rather than reactive digital transformations.

To redesign cultural spaces and services and their relationship with museum audiences means to decode existing dynamics within them. In response, DOORS supports museums in developing future-proof strategies that recode these dynamics both to seamlessly integrate technology and to enrich the online and onsite cultural offer.

Goals and activities

Noordung VR Observatory Experience – Center Noordung in Slovenia sets out to offer its visitors a live experience of space using VR, immersive, AR and intermedia applications. The digital experience of space includes travelling through deep space – including the Hubble telescope images (nebula, galaxies, stars etc.) and new James Webb telescope results, and an exploration of the planets of our Solar system. In addition to this, the AR mobile application translates the VR experiences into gamification components.

DOORS incubation programme and workshops were interesting for me, because the content was mostly out of my primary study focus. It gave me a lot of insight in work at museums through workshops, even more through break out rooms and peer to peer discussions. I learned many things of collaborative work within organisation and a lot about inclusion of opinions of our visitors. How to know our audience, hear their needs and try to provide them as immersive and interesting experience as we possibly can.

Monika Tisel, Center Noordung, DOORS incubator participant, June 2022