For the Graz Fairy Tale Express, an RFID audio player was developed in collaboration with the Graz Children’s Museum Frida and freD in 2014. In this process, RFID tags on the ground between the tracks are read by an RFID reader on each locomotive, and depending on the tag, different MP3 audio files are played, signals are sent via a CAN bus, or external relays are activated.
Does it taste good?
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2022|03 – 2023|02]
Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg, Germany [2022|09 – 2023|04] KL!CK – Das Kindermuseum, Hamburg, Germany [2023|05 – 2023|10]
A hands-on exhibition about food for young vegetables aged 8 and above. For the exhibition “Does it taste good?,” the DMT team developed 16 interactive stations about food. Children learn about the origin of eggs, discover who ate at which place, and what can be produced from milk. They help bees pollinate flowers and collect honey. Visitors learn which foods are still edible and which should not exceed their expiration date. At other stations, gingerbread, noodles, and cakes can be made. Children learn about the transportation routes of pepper and oranges at two additional stations. Not only are food items transported, but finished meals also set off with the pizza bike. Dexterity and speed are demonstrated in the food sounds and cereal station. Children can showcase their musical talent at the kitchen radio. The kitchen scale determines the corresponding amount of vegetables or fruits based on their weight.
Track the Clock
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Deutschland [2019|05 – 2020|02]
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2020|04 – 2022|03]
For the exhibition “Track the clock” the DMT team developed 15 interactive stations on the subject of time. Children can take photos of themselves at several stations and at the end of the visit they receive a certificate with their photos.
The Little City Everytime
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany [2019|05 – 2020|02] FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2020|04 – 2022|03]
The DMT Team developed five interactive stations for the exhibition “The little city Everytime”.
Various professions are brought closer to the children in the exhibition. You have to wake up a baker, you can go on a fishing boat, swing the baton in an orchestra, support a cook in his hectic work or go fishing in the harbor.
The Inventive Geniuses
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2016-05 – 2017|03] Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany [2017|04 – 2017|10] DASA – Arbeitswelt Ausstellung, Dortmund, Germany [2018|09 – 2019|04] Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany [2019|10 – 2020|03] Museum Industriekultur, Nürnberg, Germany [2020|07 – 2021|01] inatura Erlebnis Naturschau, Austria [2022-02 – 2022|11] Children’s Museum Munich, Germany [2023|05 – 2023|10]
The Inventive Geniuses is an exhibition for children between 8 and 15. The DMT team developed 21 interactive exhibits in cooperation with the Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD.
Virtual tour of the exhibition
Klimaversum
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2015|03 – 2016|03]
During the visit of the exhibition “Klimaversum” children between eight and fifteen experience the topics “climate” and “climate protection”. The DMT team has developed in cooperation with the Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD eleven interactive exhibits.
Virtual tour of the exhibition
La-Le-Luftschloss
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2015|03 – 2016|03]
La-Le-Luftschloss is an interactive exhibition for children between 3 and 7 and imparts fascinating facts about air. The DMT team developed several “air-based” stations, for example, a wind tunnel, in which children take wind-selfies. It is possible to banish birds with the help of a fan or to create cloud pictures through blowing.
Virtual tour of the exhibition
Welcome @ HotelGlobal
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2014|03 – 2015|03] Hafenmuseum Speicher XI, Bremen, Germany [2015|03 – 2015|10] DASA – Working World Exhibition, Dortmund, Germany [2015|12 – 2016|05]
“Welcome@HotelGlobal” is an interactive exhibition about globalization produced by Alice – Berlin Children’s Museum at FEZ-Berlin and the Edwin Scharff Museums Neu-Ulm in cooperation with Vienna Children’s Museum ZOOM and Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD.
The DMT team developed interactive exhibits for this exhibition.
Archinature!
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2013|03 – 2014|03] Phaeno, Wolfsburg, Germany [2014 |07 – 2014|10] DASA – Working World Exhibition, Dortmund, Germany [2014 |11 – 2015|05] Technoseum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany [2015|08 – 2015|11] Edwin Scharff Museum Neu-Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Germany[2019|09 – 2021|09]
What is architecture? Where do we get in touch with architecture? How do animals build their homes? These and other questions answers the exhibition “Archinature” at the Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD.
Some exhibits of the exhibition are described below:
Snail Scraper and Sky Shell
FRida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2013|03 – 2014|03] Phaeno, Wolfsburg, Germany [2014 |07 – 2014|10] DASA – Working World Exhibition, Dortmund, Germany [2014 |11 – 2015|05] Technoseum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany [2015|08 – 2015|11] Edwin Scharff Museum Neu-Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Germany [2019|09 – 2021|09]
Children at the age from three to seven experience in the exhibition „Schneckenkratzer und Wolkenhaus“ how animals build and what humans have adopted from them.
For this exhibition, Digital Media Technologies developed 2 interactive installations in which the young visitors can paint a room with light themselves. RFID technology in brushes and walls combined with a DMX lighting solution behind the walls enable the room to be colored.
Furthermore, a memory game was developed for the target group in order to process what was seen in the exhibition.
Medical Doll
Temporary exhibit [2012|04 – 2013|03]
Exhibition: Heart over Heals | MED Labor
Location: FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum
The medical doll allows visitors of the MED labor to try out examination methods of a pediatrician. A doll in the size of a child, which is equipped with different sensors and RFID readers, lies on an examining table. The doll responds to provided medical items, like a stethoscope, otoscope or magnifier. At the beginning of every sequence, the doll explains with kind of pain it feels.
The visitors search for the right instrument and treat the interactive doll at the right spot. A physician explains the disease of the doll and the its therapy.
Villa Healthy
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2012|03 – 2013|03]
Children at the age from three to seven experience in the „Villa Muntergsund“ social and physical health. Besides an amount of various haptic hands-on and minds-on exhibits, visitors can try to imitate facial expression with a spy mirror.
Show Me the Money!
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2011|03 – 2012|03]
Detske Muzeum, Bratislava, Slovakia [2012|04 – 2012|11]
National Museum Romanian History, Bukarest, Romania [2012|12 – 2013|05]
Muzeum Hlavního Mesta Prahy, Prag, Czech Republic [2013|04 – 2014|01]
Музеј науке и технике Београд (Museum of Science and Technology), Belgrade, Serbia [2014|05 – 2015|01]
Tehnički muzej, Zagreb, Croatia [2015|02 – 2017|04] DEPO, Plzeň, Czech Republic [2017|09 – 2018|04] FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2019|03 – 2020|03]
The travelling exhibition „Show me the money“ is an interactive exhibition about money and has already visited different countries and cities. The exhibition was designed by the Vienna Children’s Museum ZOOM in cooperation with the Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD. The seventeen interactive exhibits were developed by the special field DMT.
The visitors receive a bank card and can earn and spend money during their visit. Afterwards it is possible to print an account statement, which shows which exhibit was visited and where money was spent or earned.
Bubble dreams
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Österreich [2011|03 – 2012|03]
Children at the age from three to six experience the fascination of bubbles. Whether blowing virtual bubble or juggling those, with exhibits, developed by the special field DMT all of this is possible.
blubberblubb
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2010|03 – 2011|03] FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2018|03 – 2019|03]
Children, between three and six years old, dip into the wonder world of water. They experience with the exhibits – developed by the special field DMT – the impact of water on plants, the life of sailors and much more.
Ramble around the World
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2009|03 -2010|03] Kinder- und Jugendmuseum, Munich, Germany [2010|12 – 2011|11] Focke-Museum, Bremen, Germany [2011|12 – 2012|04] Stadt- und Industriemuseum, Rüsselsheim, Germany [2012|07 – 2012|12] Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu Ulm, Germany [2015|10 – 2016|09]
Ramble around the world is an exhibition for children, teenagers and adults about the topic mobility. The exhibition rouses the interest for technical ideas and innovations, reduces reserves with the topic natural science and technology and introduces young visitors to technical and scientific professional categories.
Do you have Sounds?
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2008|03 – 2009|03]
Children are able to dip into the world of music while visiting the exhibition „Do you have sounds“.
It is possible to explore different instruments with interactive cubes at an exhibit developed by the special field DMT.
Heart over Heals
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2006|03 – 2007|03]
NIHERST Science Center, D`Abadie, Trinidad and Tobago [2008|04 – 2008|10] Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany [2009|09 – 2010|01] DASA – Working World Exhibition, Dortmund, Germany [2010|06 – 2010|12] Universum, Bremen, Deutschland [2011|03 – 2011|08] FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2012|03 – 2013|03] Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu Ulm, Germany [2013|10 – 2015|03]
The exhibition „Heart over Heals“ guides children on a journey through the human body. With the metaphor of a house, visitors walk from room to room through organs and interact with them.
All data, which is collected by the visitors during their visits at the interactive stations, for example pictures, worth knowing about their body and themselves, is saved on a visitor’s card. After the visit, the guests are able to connect the collected data with additional data according to the exhibition and to print their personalized exhibition catalogue. The data can also be accessed over the internet with password protection.
The special field DMT developed for this travelling exhibition 29 interactive exhibits. The xCocos server is used for museums management and for storing the user created content.
Paper La Papp
FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Graz, Austria [2004|03 – 2005|03] Kinder- und Jugendmuseum, München, Germany [2005|10 – 2006|03]
Nieuw Land Erfgoedcentrum, Lelystad, Netherlands [2008|12 – 2009|03] Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany [2010|05 – 2010|08] Lebensspuren Museum, Wels, Austria [2012|03 – 2012|06]
An exciting and diversified tour through the history of paper. Six exhibits show the complex relations of paper.
