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Hi all. I am looking for some ideas. 

I am writing a piece of interactive fiction located within a text-based simulation of the American Museum of Natural History in 1936 (demo here). You, as the reader, are a child going through the museum with your family. 

I am looking to incorporate more moment where the caregivers engage the children through moments of improvised play: playing I Spy at an exhibit, sketching what they see, etc. 

I am curious if you can share other examples I might draw from of the common innovations we see in our halls (or that our own caregivers figured out to do with us to help us connect with cultural institutions when we were young). 

Barry, AMNH was one of the playgrounds of my youth. Not 1936 <s> but in the late 60's, friends and I, preteens, would be dropped off for the afternoon and left to ourselves to be picked up at a designated hour. I sometimes wonder if these wanderings are related to my interest in wayfinding. 

In that context, my first thoughts: Mapmaking, Scavenger Hunts, and Orienteering. Would your format allow for that scope of spatial, pathmaking engagement. 

Sounds like fun ! 

Hi all. I am looking for some ideas. 

I am writing a piece of interactive fiction located within a text-based simulation of the American Museum of Natural History in 1936 (demo here). You, as the reader, are a child going through the museum with your family. 

I am looking to incorporate more moment where the caregivers engage the children through moments of improvised play: playing I Spy at an exhibit, sketching what they see, etc. 

I am curious if you can share other examples I might draw from of the common innovations we see in our halls (or that our own caregivers figured out to do with us to help us connect with cultural institutions when we were young). 

Hi all. I am looking for some ideas. 

I am writing a piece of interactive fiction located within a text-based simulation of the American Museum of Natural History in 1936 (demo here). You, as the reader, are a child going through the museum with your family. 

I am looking to incorporate more moment where the caregivers engage the children through moments of improvised play: playing I Spy at an exhibit, sketching what they see, etc. 

I am curious if you can share other examples I might draw from of the common innovations we see in our halls (or that our own caregivers figured out to do with us to help us connect with cultural institutions when we were young).