With the new support program “Culture and technology: Focusus Museum” four museums with up to 100,000 euros incurred for each digitization project presented. The funding goes to this Uhrenmuseum for an escape game that Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) for active audience participation via blockchain technology Technical Museum Vienna for a “softwareLAB” and so on Austrian Film Museum to obtain private film recordings.
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“The Curse of Accuracy” is the name of the award-winning escape game with which the watch museum wants to introduce visitors to the history of timekeeping with augmented reality and elements of “real life” from autumn 2024. With “POPPY DAO” in turn, the MAK wants to involve its audience more closely. In the future, DAO will enable people to actively participate in decision-making processes, have a say in museum activities and help shape their implementation. The Technisches Museum Wien plans to use the “softwareLAB” to store its new collection area on Austrian game culture from the 80s. In the Austrian Film Museum, the project “adventure every day“Preserved private film recordings of Vienna for posterity.
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“With these digital solutions for their collections, their exhibitions and their cultural mediation offerings, museums are becoming even more internationally visible and are also opening up new digitally savvy target groups,” said Peter Hanke, Councilor Vienna City Council for Economic Affairs (SPÖ). in a broadcast on funding decisions. The four museums all received almost the same maximum contribution possibleas indicated upon request.
