Evaluation of the educational potentials - interactive technologies applied to Cultural Heritage

How young museum visitors learn from cultural experiences and, above all, how can technologies enhance the museum visit to improve memorization and provide high-profile educational moments? This paper, focusing on the “Keys To Rome” exhibition held at the Imperial Fora Museum (Rome), discusses the educational potential of digital technologies applied to Cultural Heritage together with the effectiveness of mixing up museum collections and technological applications. A tailor-made user experience evaluation has been designed for high school students according to the museum visit path. The evaluation programme, its strategy, tools and preliminary results will be illustrated in this work, providing a promising scenario in which operate to empower digital cultural products in term of learnability.