To most children and even adults museums are boring places filled with old, rusted and dusted things that raise no interest what so ever. Most of the things seen in museums are already seen on the television by children in channels like discovery and FOX History. The rest which were not seen on television are read in boring books and going to a museum will be like taking a trip thought the boring pages of a book or taking a class trip with parents. A trip to a museum is going to be a nightmare for parents who have to drag their head sacking all along the way. With increasingly advanced technologies available in the form of video games like Wii and Sony, anything that does not interact is boring for kids. Hence the only way museums can interest children is by being interactive. Museums could change all that with the incorporation of RFID tags into all the inventory of the Museum.
Research is being carried out to know the best possible way to make museums much more interesting an interactive than they really are. Museums around the world are experimenting with ways like infra-red sensing, video camera capture or video display with interaction and other such things. One among them is the use of Radio-frequency identification tags in the entire inventory which are connected to a speaker or a television set placed right above the inventory. As soon as a person nears a inventory, the RFID tag senses the RFID Tag on the individual and begins the audio presentation or he video presentation. Also the RFID tags could help in displaying or expressing the public generated content to the person according to the age of the person standing next to the inventory. RFID’s are really cheap and are the easiest to implement.
