The evolution of multimedia formats and the appearance of an
ecosystem of open source solutions for digital communication promotes a
process in which the construction of knowledge, once confined to very specific
institutions, opens up to the contributionsfrom a variety of new actors. A recent
dissemination project for our University’s Historical Scientific Museum has
allowed us to confront with this emerging scenario.
This paper presents the strategies we adopted for empowering the visitor’s
experience to a small exhibition space intended as an introductory step to the
scientific collections of the University of Sassari. The project may be considered
as an attempt to communicate complexity, exploring different ways for
disseminating contents, tailoring goals, targeting audiences, to a very specific
context and set of resources, in the direction of developing an integrated
framework of tangible and digital elements from a locally based cosmopolitan
perspective.
