The digital museum guide in the Jura-Museum: many-level insight into geoscience

The Jura-Museum is housed in the Willibalds Castle high above Eichstätt. It housed famous fossils like the Juravenator and the Eichstätt specimen of Archaeopteryx. Monument protection for the renaissance castle, the construction phase Jura-Museum and even the interior inhibit major changes in the permanent exposition. A digital museum guide was therefore developed together with a local company. It is browser-based and like that independent of system software. It can be used with the visitors smart phone or with loan tablets provided by the museum. The visitors are guided digitally to specific exponates by the guide and there provided background information at many levels. Introductory texts are accomplished by visualization, learning games, background inforamtion and videos in a way that invites the visitors to visually explore the exponate further. In the system, existing content can be implemented from publication platforms upon the right of re-use, or own content can be included, e.g. videos from the research excavation of the museum. In addition, it allows to lower barriers for people with special needs like zooming in content, having read the texts and image descriptions. The digital museum guide is a modern accomplishment of the rather classical exposition at the Jura-Museum. It allows the transfer of knowledge including ongoing research to a broad variety of visitors with timely educational approaches