Yale Peabody Museum Multimedia Interactives
The Yale Peabody Museum (YPM) engaged Sitara Systems to develop interactive design concepts, provide digital content strategy, and develop software applications for these multimedia interactives.
The mission of the Peabody Museum is to serve Yale University by advancing our understanding of Earth’s history through geological, biological and anthropological research, and by communicating the results of this research to the widest possible audience through publication, exhibition and educational programs. Fundamental to this mission is stewardship of the Museum’s rich collections, which provide a remarkable record of the history of the earth, its life, and its cultures.
The Yale Peabody Museum (YPM) underwent a full architectural renovation initiated in 2020, with the goal to increase gallery space and to facilitate the research and collections programs. As a part of this renovation, YPM designated 15 areas where digital multimedia interactives would best serve their mission to communicate the results of Yale’s groundbreaking natural science research. YPM engaged Sitara Systems to develop interactive design concepts, provide digital content strategy, and develop software applications for these multimedia interactives.
Sitara Systems oversaw a two-year long collaborative process with a range of subject matter experts across Yale’s research faculty and the YPM’s collections experts to identify topics that could best be served by multimedia interactives, focusing on stories that couldn’t be told by natural science artifacts alone.
Sitara Systems worked with exhibit design firm Reich & Petch to design a series of interactives that shared a visual design language with the physical galleries while crafting engaging narratives that helped visitors understand how the study of the past can inform the future.
Sitara Systems worked with the Peabody Museum’s Visitor Experience team and Yale research Faculty to develop a content strategy that focused on how to tell contemporary stories of how natural history is informing our understanding of the present and future. Topics included Climate Change, Wildfire in Grasslands, Sustainable Energy, and more.