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STOP THE TIME

[Interactive museum experience for the Africa Museum]

WHAT

Getting to know the Afrika Museum as a family museum through an escape route that ends in an escape room. Intergenerational learning by (grand)parents and their children. Getting a different picture about Africa that you didn't already know.

WHO

Families with children, grandparents and their grandchildren over 8 years old, tourists and culture lovers (in duo).

STORYTELLING

Junior researcher Nana from the University of Accra in the year 2080 has accidentally sent an important part of her professor's time machine into the past. She seeks the players' help to return to her the Time Wave Capacitor that is probably somewhere in the museum. To do so, players must load enough time energy into certain keys. Find the right items to charge the right key.

PARTNERSHIP

Novitas Heritage (project management), Incus-software (Webapp), Escapelab (Suitcase & Engineering), Eward Hage (Realization & Engineering Escape Room), InCamera (Grafisch ontwerp), Echo ID (Props and film) and Africa Museum/Museum of World Cultures (client, SME and user)

PROJECT RESULTS

  • Escape route and a separate custom escape room
  • 2 to 5 players, up to 6 groups simultaneously
  • Little reset, run independently
  • Interaction between tablet and technology in museum
  • 11 digital and analog puzzles
  • 90-minute experience

EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF

The interactive museum experience Stop the Time can no longer be played. As of the end of November 2023, the Africa Museum is closed.