In recent years, digital and immersive projects have been booming in the heritage sector. Faced with the diversity of these projects, Atout France, as part of the Reinventing heritage * aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the transformations and dynamics currently at work in the heritage sector.
With this in mind, this study entitled “Digital and immersive experiences in heritage” (Panorama, potentials and opportunities of the uses of digital immersion in heritage sites) was commissioned from {CORRESPONDANCES DIGITALES], supported by a committee of experts.
* Program Reinventing Heritage is an engineering fund created by the Banque des territoires, the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires and Atout France with the French Ministry of Culture, to encourage the emergence of tourism investment projects at heritage sites.
What are the objectives?
This study aims to :
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- present the range of options available to heritage sites to define a relevant digital experience project;
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- analyze a variety of inspiring digital and heritage projects;
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- provide players in the heritage sector with the tools and methods they need to put their projects into practice.
Who is it for?
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- owners, managers and teams of public or private heritage sites;
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- heads of cultural and tourism departments in local authorities, as well as elected representatives in charge of these issues;
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- to tourism professionals.
What’s in it?
Three types of documents can be found in the online resources proposed by Réinventer le Patrimoine:
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- A panorama of digital uses in heritage sites, providing an up-to-date overview of what’s on offer in terms of digital and immersive heritage mediation;
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- A technical zoom on the 3 phases of the project (design, operation, evaluation) in the form of 3 detailed practical sheets;
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- Project fact sheets, illustrating inspiring practices and experiences at : Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes, Corderie Royale in Rochefort, Théâtre Antique in Orange, Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant (Canada), Pressoria in Aÿ-Champagne (an interpretation center dedicated to Champagne wines), the Citadelle souterraine in Verdun, the Bibliothèque humaniste in Sélestat, the Domaine national de Chambord, the Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans, the Musée Antoine Vivenel in Compiègne, the Coupole in St-Omer, the Château de Beaugency and the Sucrière in Lyon.
What bias?
The study focuses on digital and immersive projects developed in situ at heritage sites.
While the sites presented in this study are diverse in nature (historical, religious, natural, industrial heritage), the digital and immersive experiences selected are exclusively physical, excluding all online formats (virtual tours, metavers, Web 3). They are also the subject of a structured commercial offer, with a pricing policy clearly presented to visitors.
Many thanks to all the representatives of the sites interviewed, to the members of the expert committee and to our sponsors for producing this fine study, which we invite you to discover HERE.
