A Free Multitouch & HCI Software Initiative

What is Open Exhibits?

Open Exhibits is an initiative that looks to transform the way in which museums and other informal learning institutions produce and share computer-based exhibits. Open Exhibits is both a collection of software and a growing community of practice.

Exhibits

Libraries

How it Works

The Open Exhibits SDK includes a gesture analysis engine and Gesture Markup Language (GML) library. This enables museums to create innovative gesture-driven exhibits without needing to program gestures or object transformations. Gestures can be enabled and modified through GML, and triggered through a variety of input devices including touch screens, Leap Motion Controller, Microsoft Kinect, TUIO, and more.

Utilities

Support

For Open Exhibits software development, we recommend you begin with our Tutorials. You can post questions (and answers) in the OE Software Support Forum.

Tutorials

Community

The Open Exhibits community includes a dynamic and diverse group of artists, developers, designers, museum professionals, technologists, and educators.

Open exhibits
What is It
How It Works
Support
Community

Knowledge Base

Exhibits, libraries, utilities, blog, community and support for multitouch exhibit design and development.

Omeka Everywhere

Omeka Everywhere is a tool which allows an institution to connect an Omeka Classic instance to a multitouch table or device.

OE Papers

Papers is a repository of insightful and rigorously researched articles from a variety of sources gathered to provide a resource for ...

CMME: Toolkit Source Code for Interactive

Written by Ben Jones, this computer-based interactive is the result of our Creating Museum Media for...

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Findings Report
(23 MB, PDF file) Ideum and Timecapsule

Museum Initiatives

This project is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under Award Number MG-30-14-0037-14.

Matching funds for Open Exhibits are provided by Ideum, makers of custom exhibits, touch tables, video walls and touch walls. Ideum also manages Touchless.Design - a zero-touch open-source initiative.

Open Exhibits is powered by
GestureWorks and Tangible Engine developed by
Ideum.

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