Abstract
For museums, it is often difficult to find the best location for explanatory notes. We therefore trialed mobile device web-based explanations for museum exhibitions. This made it easier to understand the viewpoints and the relationship between the website displays and the exhibition photo spaces. Collaboration with two museums made it possible to compare different viewpoints for similar exhibits. The goal being to encourage users to collaborate with the museum, in order to gain a broader (and deeper) understanding of the exhibits: the website guides users' interests and improves observation. The result of the preliminary experiment was that 60.6%of users replied that there was increased interest and discovery by using the website.Also, 78.8% of users replied that they were interested to read two of the explanatory notes. In addition,by using exhibition space photos,users could easily select exhibits to obtain information, and intuitively navigate with icons that use the museums' symbol colors. Further study, to investigate whether there is a guidance effect to other museums on the website, is planned.
