A placard next to "Little Audrey," built by EAA founder Paul Poberezny, at the EAA Aviation Museum contains a QR code visitors can scan to learn more about the aircraft. (Photo courtesy EAA/Dick Knapinski
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Next time you go to the EAA Aviation Museum, be sure to take your smartphone along.
Many exhibits now include QR codes that can be scanned. The codes lead to a self-guided tour called Inside the Hangar. The website includes extra features such as the exhibit’s background, archival photographs not on display and other information not found on signs in the museum.
“Museum visitors throughout the nation are now seeking more interaction with displays and exhibits they see and the Synthesia software allows EAA to bring far more depth to an exhibit than we could fit on a sign,” Amelia Anderson, EAA Aviation Museum collections curator, said in a news release. “This system also offers a way to bring additional and behind-the-scenes information about an exhibit as we discover it. As this proves more popular, we will add it to more exhibits in the coming year.”
The first QR code visitors will encounter is at the museum’s entrance. It explains the self-guided tour option and its benefits.
Among the first exhibits to have QR codes are the Mechanix Illustrated Baby Ace, Little Audrey, Little Bonzo and the Huey helicopter exhibit in the Eagle Hangar.
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