The process of how Cizhou wares were made during China’s Song and Yuan dynasties is revealed as visitors create their own vessel using the Web site’s tools.
Visitors can transcribe a seventeenth-century Japanese scroll, then create their own poems which are painted into it and ready to print from this Web site.
Web site visitors explore the piece-mold process that was used to create a Chinese tsun from the Western Zhou period as they create their own vessels.
Through a comprehensive database of images and objects connected to an interactive map of the plantation and a navigable 3-D recreation of the home, this Web site brings the experience of being at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to life online.
A touch screen installed next to a display case lets visitors explore an inscribed Mayan artifact, and transcribe and study its hieroglyphics.
In these three installations visitors slide a touch screen across archival storage boxes to reveal materials and evidence preserved from famous investigations, such as those on UFOs, the Kennedy assassination, the Kent State shootings, and Watergate.