Introduction
Interactive365 helped Little World Children’s Museum in Rome introduce a visually striking and highly engaging interactive zone designed for young visitors, families, and school groups.
The museum wanted to create a space that could support high visitor numbers while still feeling intuitive and enjoyable for children. Instead of relying on static displays, Interactive365 delivered immersive digital interactive solutions that allow children to draw, scan, create, touch, shape, explore, and learn through active participation.
For Little World Children’s Museum, the result was a memorable digital learning space that blends creativity, sensory play, and large-scale visual interaction. For visitors, it created an experience where children can see their own artwork come to life and explore environmental concepts through hands-on augmented reality.
The Brief
Little World Children’s Museum wanted to introduce large-format interactive experiences that could encourage creativity, collaboration, and hands-on learning.
Interactive365 was tasked with creating a child-friendly interactive zone that could:
- Support high visitor numbers
- Encourage creativity and imagination
- Create a visually impressive museum experience
- Make interaction simple and intuitive for young children
- Combine digital projection with hands-on play
- Support different learning styles through creative and sensory activities
The result was a museum installation that combines interactive content creation, large-scale projection, scanning technology, and augmented reality sand play.
The Challenge
The main challenge was to create an interactive museum experience that could feel exciting, easy to use, and durable enough for a busy children’s museum.
Children’s museum environments need to work for different ages, abilities, and attention spans. The technology had to be simple enough for children to understand quickly, but engaging enough to keep them interested.
Interactive365 needed to balance three key goals:
Creativity: Children needed a way to create their own characters and see their ideas become part of the experience.
Visitor flow: The installation had to support multiple visitors at the same time.
Sensory learning: The space needed to include hands-on interaction, not only screen-based activity.
Planning the Interactive Children’s Museum Experience
The Little World installation was planned around two different types of interaction: creative digital participation and tactile augmented reality play.
The large-scale Interactive Digital Sketch wall allowed children to colour characters and bring them to life on a shared digital landscape. The two scanner stations helped keep the activity fast-moving by allowing multiple children to scan their creations. The Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality units added a sensory learning layer, giving children the chance to shape sand landscapes and see digital terrain respond in real time.
This mix made the space more flexible and inclusive. Children could draw, scan, watch, move, build, explore, and collaborate in different ways.
Creating the Large-Scale Interactive DigiSketch Wall
One of the main features of the project was a custom Interactive Digital Sketch wall spanning two adjoining walls, one 10 metres long and the other 5 metres long.
Using blended projection, Interactive365 created a single, seamless interactive canvas across both walls. Children can choose a character template, colour it in, scan it, and watch their creation appear on the digital landscape.
This turns a simple colouring activity into a large-scale shared experience. Children are not only drawing. They are contributing to a living digital world that grows and changes as more visitors take part.
For children’s museums, this type of interactive content creation is valuable because it gives children a personal connection to the experience. Their own artwork becomes part of the museum environment.
Supporting Visitor Flow with Dual Scanner Stations
To help support continuous visitor flow, Interactive365 installed two DigiSketch scanner stations.
Children place their coloured template under the scanner, and their character instantly appears on the large digital landscape. With two scanners available, more children can participate at once, helping the installation remain smooth and engaging during busy museum periods.
This is especially important for children’s museums, where experiences need to be easy to understand and quick to repeat. The dual scanner setup helps reduce waiting time while keeping the activity active, collaborative, and enjoyable.
Adding Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality
Interactive365 also supplied and installed two ceiling-mounted Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality units, each paired with a round sand tray for full 360-degree access.
These AR sandboxes allow children to shape terrain, create landscapes, and explore environmental concepts through tactile play. As the sand changes shape, the augmented reality projection responds, helping children understand landscapes, elevation, water flow, and natural environments in a more visual and hands-on way.
This makes the experience especially useful for sensory learning. Children are not only looking at digital content. They are physically shaping it.
The Result
The finished installation gives Little World Children’s Museum a high-engagement interactive zone that combines digital creativity with hands-on exploration.
The large-scale Interactive Digital Sketch wall encourages children to create and collaborate, while the Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality supports tactile learning and environmental discovery.
Together, these experiences create a family-friendly museum environment that supports different learning styles, encourages repeat interaction, and makes digital learning feel playful and intuitive.
The project shows how Interactive365 can transform a museum space into a more active and memorable visitor attraction through creative concepts for interactive experiences, practical technology planning, and equipment installation and maintenance.
Why This Project Matters for Children’s Museums and Visitor Attractions
Children’s museums need experiences that are creative, active, and easy to understand. Young visitors often learn best when they can touch, create, move, and experiment.
The Little World Children’s Museum project shows how immersive digital interactive solutions can help museums create stronger engagement by turning children from passive viewers into active participants.
For children’s museums, science centres, family attractions, and educational venues, interactive installations can support:
- Better visitor engagement
- Creative learning through play
- Collaborative family experiences
- Higher visitor flow during busy periods
- Sensory and tactile learning opportunities
- More memorable school group visits
- Stronger educational storytelling
By combining drawing, scanning, projection, and augmented reality sand play, Interactive365 helped create an interactive museum experience that feels creative, inclusive, and highly engaging.
Are You Looking to Create an Interactive Museum or Learning Space?
Interactive365 creates immersive digital interactive solutions for children’s museums, visitor attractions, education spaces, family entertainment centres, leisure venues, and cultural destinations.
From interactive content creation and projection mapping services to Interactive Digital Sketch, Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality, Interactive Touch Table, and equipment installation and maintenance, Interactive365 helps organisations turn ordinary spaces into engaging digital environments.
Whether you want to create an interactive museum gallery, children’s learning zone, digital sketch wall, AR sandbox area, or fully customised visitor attraction, Interactive365 can help design and deliver a solution built around your audience, space, and learning goals.
Looking to create your own interactive museum experience? Contact Interactive365 to discuss your next visitor attraction project.
FAQ
What did Interactive365 create for Little World Children’s Museum in Rome?
Interactive365 created a large-scale interactive museum zone for Little World Children’s Museum in Rome. The installation included a custom Interactive Digital Sketch wall across two adjoining walls, dual scanner stations, and two Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality units.
How does the Interactive Digital Sketch wall work?
Children choose a character template, colour it in, scan it using a DigiSketch scanner, and then watch their character appear on a large projected digital landscape.
Why did the project include two scanner stations?
The project included two scanner stations to support continuous visitor flow. This allows multiple children to take part at once and helps keep the experience fast-moving during busy periods.
What is the Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality used for?
The Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality allows children to shape sand landscapes and see the digital terrain respond in real time. It supports tactile learning, sensory play, and environmental exploration.
Who is this type of interactive experience suitable for?
This type of experience is suitable for children’s museums, science centres, family attractions, education spaces, visitor centres, cultural venues, and leisure destinations.
What Interactive365 services are relevant to this project?
Relevant services include interactive content creation, projection mapping services, creative concepts for interactive experiences, equipment installation and maintenance, Interactive Digital Sketch, and Interactive Sandbox with Augmented Reality.
