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During busy periods, visitors to the Cosmodôme de Laval can find themselves queuing at the ticket office and in the waiting areas for various activities. To offer a quality visit and keep children's attention, the Cosmodôme came up with the idea of creating a digital experience that can be played on the phone.

The Fugitifs! exhibition explores black runaway slaves in 18th-century Quebec. Too often erased from accounts, the descriptions given in the newspapers of the period are the only way to find out more about these people who fled their condition.

With Webster, the Commission des droits de la personne et de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) has chosen to put a face back on runaway slaves. Artists from a variety of backgrounds were commissioned to paint their portraits. Using newspaper clippings, they were able to give life to these figures too often left in the shadows, but also to highlight the conditions in which these slaves sometimes had to flee: barefoot, without jackets, etc....

So how do you highlight the work of the contemporary portrait artist, who followed the elements of the newspaper clipping, on the platform?

The Laval Cosmodôme's permanent exhibition features scientific artifacts that often require more information to fully understand their function and use. But writing long labels can distort the spirit of the exhibition. What's more, children are rarely interested in reading long texts.

The Cosmodôme has therefore chosen to use MySmartJourney's technology to enhance its scientific content and facilitate understanding of the objects on display.

The Route des Navigateurs is a tourist route that follows the route of Highway 132. It crosses three of Quebec's tourist regions: Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches and Bas-Saint-Laurent. Covering a distance of 470 kilometers along the St. Lawrence River, it offers a wealth of tourist attractions.

To provide the best possible accompaniment for passengers on this route, two tourism organizations from the regions it crosses have collaborated to offer nine discovery itineraries, which can be found on the Route des Navigateurs website. Each itinerary offers a thematic discovery of the region.

But once on the road, how do you accompany these travellers on their touristic discovery without losing them on the website?

From April 1 to 9, 2022, the Vanier Museopark hosted the Festival des Sucres. Originally, this was a face-to-face event. In response to the pandemic, the museopark decided to offer a virtual edition. The idea was to use MySmartJourney technology to create a sugar calendar inspired by advent calendars.

The Laval Cosmodôme offers its visitors a range of activities available at the ticket counter. While some of these are already well known to visitors, others are new to the museum, such as the Cosmo Mission.

A recent creation at the Cosmodôme, the team wanted a way to promote its activities other than through the box office or website.

The Vanier Museopark offers a free activity combining a walk in the forest and the discovery of Franco-Ontarian authors. The 30 interpretive panels are deployed in the Richelieu forest. Each panel features two authors and their respective works. The museum wished to enhance this experience by adding a digital dimension, with audio and textual content.

Route 132 is a tourist route known as “La Route des Navigateurs”. Its digital version was co-created by two tourism organizations: Tourisme Bas-Saint-Laurent and Tourisme Centre-du-Québec, and offers 9 different itineraries ranging from 2 to 12 days, with different themes, such as the lovers' route, the flavor route or the cultural route.

La Route des Navigateurs is a route that takes place along the 470 km Route 132. It is also a project co-created by two tourism organizations: Tourisme Bas-Saint-Laurent and Tourisme Centre-du-Québec. When it came to adding a digital dimension to the experience, the two organizations chose to share access to the MySmartJourney platform.

Conceived by Webster, historian and hip-hop artist, Fugitifs! won the Prix Excellence from the Canadian Museums Association / Association des musées canadiens in the Exhibition category.

The original exhibition features ten life-size drawings by nine Quebec illustrators. They give a face to 13 slaves described in 18th-century advertisements published in La Gazette de Québec and La Gazette de Montréal. Printed text was displayed alongside the works, telling the story of Bell, Ismaël and Lowcanes. This experience popularizes a part of our history that has long been obscured.