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  Digitalisation and the increasing diversity of visitors are making the presentation and design of exhibitions and collections more and more demanding. New concepts are needed, which can be used both in permanent exhibitions and  in temporary exhibitions and that create real added value for the museum and the people.

  We advise you on the planning of interactive exhibitions and inclusive exhibits – with an experienced eye on the respective location and the daily demands. By combining digital technology and tactile experiences, you can reach new groups of visitors and inspire your regulars. Your museum becomes an inspiring place for everyone.

  We will gladly send you a printed copy on request. Send us your request via the  Contact form

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One contact – all possibilities

• Henning Larsen | Civic and Media Centre

  In the Civic and Media Centre of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, visitors use all their senses to find out about the work of the state parliament. The wall panels made of  Corian® and brass are partly interactive and can be experienced tactilely, with audio description or videos and with Braille lettering for blind and visually impaired people.

   

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• Porta Westfalica Denkmal Heute

  Monuments from all over the world: For the exhibition ‘Denkmal heute’  in the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument at Porta Westfalica, we built four current monuments on a scale of 1:10 to 1:1000, ranging from Mount Rushmore from the U.S.A. to the large monument Mansudae in North Korea.

   

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• Frankfurt City Museum Judengasse

  Judengasse (Jews Lane) was located close to the old Frankfurt city wall and was the oldest Jewish ghetto in Europe. In the model, the five houses on whose foundations the Judengasse Museum was built come to life again. They offer visitors an introduction to the history of Judengasse, which was founded in 1460, in addition to numerous exhibits and a view of the old walls.

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• Ramicsoenario Kehlsteinhaus Obersalzberg

  In the corridor of the sun terrace of the mountain inn also known as Eagles Nest is the permanent exhibition designed by ramicsoenario. In five chapters, the installation tells the story from 1923 to the present and picks up on the rugged mountain landscape as a visual feature.

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• Optimist 007 Elements

  The cinematic installation 007 ELEMENTS which is dedicated to James Bond, opened on the Gaislachkogl in Sölden in July 2018, 3,040m above sea level. The exhibition shows all of the 24 official James Bond films, with a special focus on Spectre, some sequences of which were shot in Sölden. Among other things, werk5 built the mountain on which the car chase took place out of Corian® in order to trace the meticulous planning of the route with the help of LEDs.

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• David Adjaye

  How to bring the architecture of an architect, whose buildings have been built on several continents, to Munich? The 2015 exhibition “Form, Heft, Material” at the Haus der Kunst in Munich illustrated the work of Ghanaian-British architect and 2021 RIBA Gold Medal winner David Adjaye with 12 architectural models.

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• Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Museumsinsel

  5 museums, 7 archaeological collections

  With the James Simon Gallery, Berlin’s Museum Island has gained a new entrance building that offers visitors orientation. Duncan McCauley designed the first section of the Archaeological Promenade as an innovative presentation. A sensor system in the model reacts to touch and lights up the corresponding location of the collections and museums, making it easier for visitors to find their way around.

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• Expedition Märkische Schweiz

  The exhibition ‘Expedition Märkische Schweiz’ in the Schweizer Haus in Buckow, co-conceived by BOK+ Gärtner, shows the richness of nature in Brandenburg’s oldest national park. Interactive stations invite visitors to try out and discover: The topography model made of sycamore maple with front projection, the animal voice seating corners in the species diversity wall and much more.

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Haptic navigation and tactile exploration of your exhibition for more cultural participation

• #go-inclusive

  For your next exhibition, actively plan inclusive offers right from the beginning. This will create new perspectives on the familiar and attract more visitors.

  Together with experts in accessible design and layout, we produce tactile exhibits, bring orientation plans to life and ensure a balanced graphic design of tactile text panels.

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• Braille & Tactile Writing

  You know the situation: the graphic artist has designed a great new information board. And then you remember that Braille or another tactile writing needs to be included as well. Suddenly an attractive design turns into a one that does not look so tempting any more.

  Avoid these mistakes and design information inclusively, right from the start.

  We will show you how.

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• Tactile images

  Masterpieces as tactile reliefs – What can you do, as a museum of fine arts, for blind and visually impaired visitors apart from audio guides? Translate a painting into tactile relief with our experts from #go-inclusive. In a joint workshop, we will work out the essential content for 3D interpretation.

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• Tactile exhibits

  Have you ever illegally touched an exhibit in a museum in order to understand history at first hand?

   

  With a reproduction, you protect the originals and still have a great tactile experience. Your object will be 3D scanned, digitally processed and reproduced from a hygienic material without any damage.

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• Tactile orientation maps

  Haptic navigation through your exhibition can do much more than just showing the way – if you add an audio feedback. Sensory points play audio content via a one-handed earpiece when touched. In this way, your visitors learn exciting information about the architectural history of your building or the surrounding area.

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• Exhibits tell the best stories

  Visual, tactile, auditory

  We let exhibits tell their stories by a simple touch and without restorers throwing their hands up in horror. A faithful replica made of durable material is equipped with the Multi-Sense-Box from werk5 and enables you to watch your visitors explore tactilely without worrying. Choose between visual or audio feedback to convey content and information.

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When an exhibit turns passive viewers into active discoverers

• Documentation Centre for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation

  We built exhibits and tactile orientation plans for the Documentation Centre for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin. The exhibition design is by  Atelier Brückner, who stage innovative mediation formats as tactile, visual and olfactory sensory experiences. They allow visitors to take different perspectives on the history of forced migration in Europe.

  Photography: © Michael Jungblut
  Photography: ©werk5 GmbH

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• Humboldt Forum ‘Berlin Global’

  On 4000m² the exhibition shows Berlin as part of a global network. Visitors are interactively involved in the exhibition concept. The tactile exhibits were developed by Steffen Zimmermann – partner of our #go-inclusive initiative.

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• Charlottenburg Palace

  The largest and most important palace complex in Berlin conveys the history of the palace,of its inhabitants and guests with tactile exhibits. A tactile city map shows the location of
  Charlottenburg Palace true to scale in its surroundings. An added value, also for sighted visitors.

   

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• Humboldt Forum Multisense-Station

  From tactile room plans to the scented experiences of a Japanese tea ceremony and to touchable replicas of Far Eastern craftsmanship – the Humboldt Forum is integrating hands-on exhibits into its permanent exhibition for a larger number of accessible opportunities.

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• Dor beetle | Responsive tactile model

  To make the tactile model of a dor beetle talk, we combined a gesture recognition software with tactile sensor technology.

  The research project was initiated by the museum’s systematic sifting of the collection, in which parts of the insect collection are being digitized. The Museum’s touch tour adventures, in which blind and visually impaired visitors go on a tactile independent journey of discovery, served as an inspiration. The collection of tactile objects is now supplemented by a highly scaled insect tactile object.

  For the implementation of the tactile model of a dor beetle from the entomological collection, we equipped the entire surface of the beetle with a sensor technology that recognises gestures and plays audio content.

  That tactile models, with the help of AI, can turn into interactive control elements, has already been demonstrated in 2021 with our ‘Lorm-Hand’ exhibit.

  How does it work?

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• Museum Stiftung Zollverein heritage trail

  The Zollverein, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has shaped the region and the people of the Ruhr for over a century. From 1851-1986, generations of miners extracted coal from the earth in the “Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr”. The model made Corian® can be explored tactilely in the memorial trail to give blind and visually impaired people an understanding of the architecture.

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• Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden tactile objects

  The exhibition Future Food. What will we eat tomorrow? at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden shows the journey of our food from the field to the plate.  Outstanding exhibits, such as the wild boar’s head tureen, can also be explored as tactile exhibits by blind and visually impaired visitors.

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• Mediasphere for Nature MfN Berlin crocodile

  As part of a cooperation project between  Mediasphere For Nature and werk5, an original specimen of a saltwater crocodile was digitised by means of a 3D scan and reproduced as a full-size 3D model. Thanks to the built-in Multi-Sense-Box visitors learn more about the characteristics of the crocodile via audio feedback by touching one of the four sensory points.

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• Felix Nussbaum

  With “Seeing Nussbaum differently” – the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus offers new perspectives on the painter and his work. The transformation of the painting into a tactile relief was developed by Steffen Zimmermann – partner our #go-inclusive initiative – then digitally modelled and produced in CORIAN®.

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Protect originals and show new perspectives in the engagement with the exhibit

• Original – Digital – Replica

  How does an original become a replica? Using a real-time 3D handheld scanner, we digitise your exhibits without damaging them or having to transport them. The precision of the scan data sometimes eliminates the need for time-consuming and costly CAD remodelling, thus speeding up the reproduction process.

  You only need the digital copies for the time being? No problem.

   

  Send us your request and we will create a quote for the digitisation of your exhibits

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• Porta Nigra

  The history of the famous monument and landmark of Trier is marked by destruction and conversion. For 800 years, the Roman city gate served as a double church. An architectural model on a scale of 1:50 makes this important period of the monument visible.

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• Mediasphere for Nature MfN Berlin crocodile

  As part of a cooperation project between  Mediasphere For Nature and werk5, an original specimen of a saltwater crocodile was digitised by means of a 3D scan and reproduced as a full-size 3D model. Thanks to the built-in Multi-Sense-Box visitors learn more about the characteristics of the crocodile via audio feedback by touching one of the four sensory points.

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• Trigon Art – House of Bavarian History Gravestone Steiglehner

  Not transportable and yet so monumental that it gets a place in the House of Bavarian History Regensburg: The tomb of the last prince abbot of St. Emmeram, Coelestin II Steiglehner. Therefore, it was digitised by means of a 3D scan, reduced in size by 15% and then milled from PU block material.

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• Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz coin cabinet

  A masterpiece by Gérard Dagly:
  The 300-year-old coin cabinet from the cabinet of antiquities of the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer in the Berlin Palace. The acrylic reproduction is part of the exhibition in the James Simon Gallery.

  Dr. Achim Stiegel, curator of the furniture collection at the Museum of Decorative Arts, tells us more about the history of the original in this blog post.

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• Dommuseum Ottonianum Magdeburg

  In the new permanent exhibition, everything revolves around the history of Emperor Otto the Great and his wife Queen Editha. His significance for European and German history is told with objects, graphics and audio stations, as well as interactive media stations.

  For museum educational tours, 5 different seals and reliefs made of ivory were 3D scanned and reproduced in Corian®.

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We armour your outdoor exhibits against weather and vandalism

• LVR Archaeological Park Xanten

  Colonia Ulpia Traiana – once a flourishing metropolis in Roman times, today’s Xanten still holds numerous secrets that are on display in the Archaeological Park. Three barrier-free models in the outdoor space serve as orientation and explanation of the archaeological finds.

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• Hohenschönhausen Memorial

  The Hohenschönhausen Memorial  is located on the grounds of the former “State Security (MfS) remand prison”. An urban overview model in the condition of 1989 on the site was realised in Corian® and ensures a permanent presentation in the outdoor space.

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• Bitburg city model

  Making the past visible

  With the tactile city model made of Corian®, three major stages of Bitburg’s development become visible on a scale of 1:400:
  From the Roman street village to the late Roman fortification to the medieval town. The solid surface material offers advantages over bronze castings, especially when it comes to processing: the CNC milling machine makes it possible to reproduce the topography and buildings in detail.

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• Information panels guidance system Charlottenburg Palace

  This is my park, this is my palace, this is my path

  On behalf of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) we developed six information panels for a new guidance system in Charlottenburg Palace Gardens for people with learning difficulties and mental disabilities. The SPSG is thus participating in the sustainability programme “Inclusion ’23”, which was launched on the occasion of the Special Olympic World Games taking place in Berlin.

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