RFID Tags Enhance Museum Experiences and Back-End Support

Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: Create a museumgoer’s experience that is interactive, meaningful and memorable. That’s what the International Spy Museum set out to do when it opened a new, 140,000-square-foot facility at L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., last May. It did so, in part, by leveraging devices embedded with radio-frequency ID tags that can track visitors’ movements as they wander through the museum. A number of museums around the world are using RFID technology to create interactive exhibits that sometimes make a greater impression on guests than even the rarest of artifacts.