About

The GIFT Box is a result of the GIFT project – a research project funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme. The project brings together internationally renowned artists, designers, museum professionals and researchers to help museums create hybrid experiences: Experiences that combine the physical and digital to create personal encounters with cultural heritage. The project started in January 2017 and runs for three years, to December 2019.

Read our academic publications and see how we have been covered in the media. If you have questions, please contact us on gift@itu.dk.

Who we are and what we do

presented by Europeana

Helping museums make richer digital experiences for their visitors

Tools and ways of working

Helping museums make richer digital experiences for their visitors

The team behind the GIFT project are proud to launch the GIFT Box: a toolbox of resources to help you design, plan and implement enhanced visitor experiences. Check out some of the creative ways it can be used.

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Giving visitors the tools for deeper engagement

Thinking about the experience first

Giving visitors the tools for deeper engagement

We present you with some of the exciting developments coming out of the project, starting with an introduction from the Principle Investigator, Anders Sundnes Løvlie.

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Using Artcodes to create monuments for a departed future

Blending the physical and digital

Using Artcodes to create monuments for a departed future

Karin Ryding from IT University Copenhagen introduces you to one of our tools: Artcodes – customisable scannable markers that allow you to blend your physical exhibition with digital content.

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Museums of the future tap into the GIFT app

Working with museums

Museums of the future tap into the GIFT app

Brighton Museum has spent three years working with GIFT project partners Blast Theory, helping to test the GIFT web app in a live museum setting. In this article Digital Manager Kevin Bacon shares his perspective on GIFT and museums of the future.

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Introducing personal objects to the museum space through 'Your Stories'

Meaningful personalised experiences

Introducing personal objects to the museum space through ‘Your Stories’

Paulina Rajkowska, lecturer at Uppsala University in the Department of Informatics and Media, shares her experience working on Your Stories, a museum experience that introduces personal objects into museum spaces.

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Give and take in the museum experience

Tapping in to our emotions

Give and take in the museum experience

Bogdan Spanjevic is the General Manager of NextGame, a Belgrade-based company specialising in playful projects and digital advertising. Bogdan talks with us about how appropriation models have been tested, adapted and played with as part of GIFT.

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Project Partners

IT University of Copenhagen

MAD Art and Design Research Group

Denmark

University of Nottingham

Mixed Reality Laboratory

UK

Uppsala University

Department of Informatics and Media

Sweden

Blast Theory

UK

NextGame

Serbia

Europeana Foundation

Netherlands

Culture24

UK

Participating Museums

Arken Museum of Modern Art

Denmark

Brighton Museum

UK

Centro Arti Opificio Siri

Italy

Danish Museum of Science and Technology

Denmark

Museum of Making

UK

The Munch Museum

Norway

The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies

Norway

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

UK

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

USA

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

UK

Framework Partners

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación

Spain

The National Museum of Serbia

Serbia

Royal Shakespeare Company

UK

University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology

UK

Project Leads

Anders Sundnes Løvlie (Co-ordinator)

Associate Professor

Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen

Matt Adams

Artist

Blast Theory

Steve Benford

Professor

Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham

Jane Finnis

Chief Executive

Culture24

Milena Popova

Business Development Manager

Europeana

Bogdan Spanjevic

General Manager

NextGame

Annika Waern

Professor

Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University

Project Staff

Ben Bedwell

Research Fellow

Mixed Reality Laboratory at University of Nottingham

Andrija Despotovic

Account Executive

NextGame

Ju Row Farr

Artist

Blast Thoery

Pablo Uceda Gómez

Operations Officer

Europeana

Christian Hviid Mortensen

Postdoc

Department of Digital Design at IT University of Copenhagen

Petros Ioannidis

Research Assistant

Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen

Kirsty Jennings

Business Director

Blast Theory

Dan Lamont

Company Manager

Blast Theory

Sejul Malde

Research Manager

Culture24

Nobu Mumba

Europeana Campaign Manager

Europeana

Mace Ojala

Scientific Assistant

Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen

Paulina Rajkowska

Doctoral student

Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University

Karin Ryding

PhD Fellow

Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen

Anne Rørbæk Olesen

Postdoc

Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen

Miguel Sicart

Associate Professor

Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen

Jocelyn Spence

Research Fellow

Mixed Reality Laboratory at University of Nottingham

Dimitrios Darzentas

Research Fellow

Mixed Reality Laboratory at University of Nottingham

Edgar Bodiaj

Research Developer

Mixed Reality Laboratory at University of Nottingham

Nick Tandavanitj

Artist

Blast Theory

Astrid Waagstein

Research Assistant

Department of Digital Design IT University of Copenhagen

Tim Wray

Postdoc

Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen

Charlie Yetton

Artists' Assistant

Blast Theory

Advisory Board

David Crombie

European Research Coordinator

HKU University of Arts Utrecht

Frans Mäyrä

Head of Game Research Lab and Vice Dean

University of Tampere

Andrew D. Morrison

Head of Research

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design