Laboratoire de museologie experimentale

The Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL, led by Prof. Sarah Kenderdine, is a transdisciplinary initiative focusing on immersive visualization technologies, visual analytics, aesthetics, and cultural and scientific data. eM+ engages in research from scientific, artistic, and humanistic perspectives, promoting post-cinematic multisensory engagement through experimental platforms. At the core of eM+'s research framework is 'computational museology', which unites machine intelligence with data curation, ontology with visualization, and communities of publics and practitioners with embodied interaction through immersive interfaces. eM+ has developed unique visualization systems and powerful sonic architectures, setting benchmarks in virtual, augmented, and mixed realities. The lab works on tangible and intangible heritage and archival materials from various countries, creating high-fidelity data through state-of-the-art techniques like motion capture, photogrammetry, and computer vision. eM+ transforms cultural data into advanced ultra-high resolution visualizations, collaborating with developments in computation and computer vision to provide access to large cultural datasets.