pune museums in the city are now using technology to make your experience a truly memorable one what was earlier a trip of a couple of hours has now become a complete learning experience for children shekhar badve a curation artiste based out of the city has curated exhibitions for nanawada museum arai automotive technology museum dajikaka gadgil museum and patangrao kadam museum by employing modern technology to tell traditional stories we have to do this for the youth to get the message for instance at the sinhagad fort multimedia interactive technology has been used to attract schoolchildren and teenagers badve said with technology developing every day museums find it necessary to create a comprehensive and interactive environment for visitors museums are employing factors like 3d holographic illustrations social media and free audio guides to pull in visitors moreover they also allow visitors to carry their cellphones inside the museum animation and modern puppetry are also used to keep the visitors engrossed in these exhibits mixing mediums to create new concepts is another way of coming up with new curatorial forms badve said the city is home to several museums such as the wellknown raja dinkar kelkar museum mahatama phule museum darshan museum and the afroasian cultural museum of the symbiosis society which houses artefacts donated by the international students community from 85 countries darshan museum is dedicated to sindhi saint and scholar sadhu tl vaswani we have used a vast palette of museumbased technologies such as real life mannequins graphic panels holographic screens interactive audiovisual material and films this gives the museum an international feel and keeps the guests pouring in geetaa sachdeva the manager of the museum said the museum also has ushers who guide visitors through its eight zones badve said most museums today rely on narrative and dialoguebased displays to engage all senses of the visitors the sound and light format makes it a more emotive and personal experience as opposed to the written format that was used earlier he said in the last couple of years museums around the city have seen a regular footfall due to quick access to information on the internet ravi joshi the curator of joshis museum of miniature railway says from threeyearolds to sexagenarians we have visitors of all sorts the average weekly footfall is up to 450 people the biggest attraction for children are the model trains running through a miniature city there are 65 signals fences lamp posts and flyovers that can be controlled manually and via computers all of it to keep the children engaged we also sell miniature railway kits to keep the children glued joshi said the museum also has a hobby centre called trainz which attempts to popularize train modelling and provides basic knowledge about it the mahatma phule museum has been a big attraction for visitors who want to know more about the science of museology the museum also brings out a monthly journal srishtidnyan on science for the commoners the museums