Introduction

Anuprita Ranade
Nov 4 · 1 min read

Museums have always been fascinating and the experience of visiting one leaves us with new information and different perspectives about the world. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, situated in the town of Pittsburgh offers a variety of exhibits that showcase our anthropocene. The exhibits include rare minerals and rocks, skeletal structures of dinosaurs, insects and other animals, objects of cultural significance for indigenous communities and Egypt.

The museum consists of 115,000 square feet (10,700 m2) organized into 20 galleries as well as research, library, and office space. It holds some 22 million specimens, of which about 10,000 are on view at any given time and about 1 million are cataloged in online databases. In 2008 it hosted 386,300 admissions and 63,000 school group visits. Museum education staff also actively engage in outreach by traveling to schools all around western Pennsylvania. (Source: Wikipedia)

To stay updated with technology, the museum has incorporated many digital displays that provide in-depth information about various exhibits. For this project, our goal is to build an interactive experience for the museum in order to boost visitor-exhibit interaction.

Encounter — Interactive Experience Design for Carnegie Museum

Team Deepika Dixit, Michelle Chou, Jisoo Shon, Bhakti Shah, and Anuprita Ranade

Anuprita Ranade

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Product Designer | Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Encounter — Interactive Experience Design for Carnegie Museum

Team Deepika Dixit, Michelle Chou, Jisoo Shon, Bhakti Shah, and Anuprita Ranade

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