Gaming the Museum

Martha Henson and Danny BirchallWellcome Collection, London

www.wellcomecollection.org

@marthasadie@dannybirchall

Mini-workshop

Friday 8 April 2011

Museums and the Web, Philadelphia

Approaching games

Collaboration

Real content

Gameplay

Learning

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel to be effective

There’s a bigger audience on other websites

Social media doesn’t necessarily spread games

People will think and talk about your game in unexpected ways

Questions

Replicating success

Extent of collaboration

Sharing/learning from each other

Gameplay beyond ‘gamification’?

Goals for this workshop

Testing our ideas

(Re)using what works

Sparking collaboration

Sharing knowledge & experience

Brainstorming exercise

Groups of 3-6

Random game types

Select a collection, aspect, mission

Bring the two together

Present your game, and issues

Q&A

Share and reflect

bit.ly/gamingthemuseum

(http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/gaming_the_museum_share_and_reflect)