In the Immersion Room, digital and projection technologies bring the


wallpaper collection to life


Immersion Room The ‘wallpaper room’ is controlled


by an interactive Ideum table which accesses the museum’s wallpaper collection – the largest collection of wall coverings in North America. Visitors project designs onto the walls of the Immersion Room, so instead of viewing a swatch, you can see the design fl oor-to- ceiling. You can design and project your own wallpaper, which can be saved to your account and retrieved later.


The Pen A museum today is part of the


Internet, and vice versa, and visitors arrive with what is essentially a super-computer in their pockets. The Pen is a response to that. It was a remarkably complicated piece of work. The device allows you to interact with the museum, create things on the tables or in the Immersion Room, but also save information from the collection itself to your account. The idea of the Pen and the idea of the post-visit happened simultaneously. It’s the idea of bookmarking, of being able to return to and share something. All these objects have thousands and thousands of words written about them, and now there’s a way to access this after your visit via your visitor account. The museum starts to exist beyond the 90 minutes that you spend inside its four walls.


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Everything collected on the Pen is accessible via a unique Web address provided by the museum


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PHOTO: MATT FLYNN / COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM


PHOTO: KATIE SHELLY / COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM


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