Georgia Arnoux NUA Games Art & Design blog: Can Video Games help Museums?

Thinking about photogrammetry and what I could do next. One thing that came to my mind is to use it for museums. I know some museums are now digitizing their collections. But what about making it interactive using games technologies? Or perhaps, using photogrammetry they can create models from their collections that aren't on show to the public (i.e. too valuable to put on display).

According to some articles, the museum numbers are going down. Is it because they just don't appeal to the average person? Too expensive? Too dull? I know I'm proposing a lot of questions, but wouldn't it be interesting to use game technologies to make museums more interesting.
This could make it not just interesting to kids, but attract people who may not otherwise go to museums.
Furthermore, this also could help dyslexics as the most common way for a dyslexic to learn is via experience, being shown or being hands-on. Note: I can confirm this from my own experience with having dyslexia.
Also, read an article from the BBC, some studies even say that video games help people children with dyslexia to read. The link: Video games 'help reading in children with dyslexia'

One prime example of using games to make museums more interesting is the discovery mode in Assassin's Creed origins. Using the base game map from the main game (they change it so there's no violence so kids can play) and they have interactive tours and players can interact with the environment, participate in activities and explore ancient Eygpt, whilst learning. This is basically an interactive museum.

Note: With the base game alone, Ubisoft used Historian but they had additional historian for the interactive tours.

If museums do this online, so people can get interested they are more likely to actually to go to the museum to learn more. Better yet, if they do it in museums they can attract more people there and kids will be more interested to go too.

Note: I kinda wish I had this idea as I started this project, as I would base the project around this. Unfortunately, it's too late to implement this idea in the project beyond the idea phase.

But as I also said, museums could use photogrammetry and digitize their collects (even ones not visible to the public) as people can get closer to the object without damaging the real thing and they could digitally curate it. Not only this, it could serve as a catalog for the museums, as this would archive their collection and could digitally lend their collection to other museums or for further study. They could even find stuff they couldn't before as they don't have to as careful with the digital version as it's, well digital.
Also, if this was done with a game company, not only would a museum have more resources and specialist working with them, games could get something out of it too, they can use the research for their own games. Also, given that the games industry has grown massive in the last decade, this could also lead to more jobs as there could be a museum cross game development studios and make museums popular.
This would be an interesting field to go in and if I could would pursue this further in a future career.