The Dittrick Museum Navigator
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities (CPHDH)
at Cleveland State University

Smart City Project Overview

The Dittrick Museum Navigator was the pilot for a project to develop a simple but effective app to enhance the visitor experience in smaller museums.

The Dittrick Museum Navigator project provided a needed tool for wayfinding and for augmenting on-site medical history exhibits in the museum’s main gallery. The project served as a proof of concept that might be extensible to other smaller museums that need a low-cost alternative to commercially produced mobile apps.

Organization's mission and/or purpose

The Center for Public History + Digital Humanities (CPHDH) at Cleveland State University Department of History develops state-of-the-art public humanities projects and resources rooted in scholarly disciplines in concert with university and K-12 educators and students, libraries, museums and cultural institutions, and neighborhood organizations.

Project Links

• Dittrick Museum Navigator app (Apple)

• Dittrick Museum Navigator app (Google Play)

COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS

• Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, Cleveland State University
• Cleveland State University Research Corporation
• Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University
• Curatescape

IMPACT STATEMENT

The Museum Navigator project promises to empower smaller museums or other cultural organizations to tell their stories more effectively by giving their visitors an enhanced educational experience. The project demonstrates the potential to overcome some of the technical and fiscal challenges posed by introducing technological interventions in museum settings.

Project point

J. Mark Souther, Ph.D.
[email protected]