Art museums are dedicated to fostering an understanding of works of art, to
conducting research, and to delivering results to the public. As technologies has
introduced new challenges for museums, museum professionals have embraced new
interactive technologies for their promise to offer aesthetic, cultural, and contextual
information on exhibits, and to boost museum attendance. Museum visitors,
expecially children and young adults, have responded enthusiastically to interactive
exhibits, even coming to expect them as integral part of the museum experience
(Falk & Dierking, 2000). Curators supporting the new technology argue that such
innovations offer flexibility and new solution to the problem of representing complex
ideas and processes. Researchers in the museum field agree that new technologies
can transform the ability of museum visitors and museum professionals to interact
with museum objects.