Delta council this week approved another big contract for the new Delta Cultural Centre, which will be more than just a regular museum.
A $194,250 contract was approved to undertake the development, production and implementation of interactive media at the facility which will open next spring adjacent to municipal hall.
The facility is to be an interpretative storytelling centre to share the cultural and natural history of Delta.
A staff report notes interactive media production is an integral part of the interpretive work and associated exhibit experience.
It involves software-based wayfinding to guide the experience of visitors at the centre.
The detailed design work called for a radio frequency identification system that would see visitors to the centre receive a card at an initial launch station.
The card could then be scanned at a number of sites throughout the centre.
At each site, interactive media software would engage the visitor in different thoughts and questions about the subject of the exhibit.
Based on the responses by the visitor, the software would direct the visitor to another exhibit, the report explains.
Through these interactions with the software, visitors are guided through the centre in a somewhat personalized and non-linear fashion, the report adds.
The new 6,500 square-foot facility will be located on the first floor of the former courthouse in the Ladner civic precinct.
Three years ago, the Delta Museum, which had been housed in a century-old building in Ladner Village, closed its doors and its collection was put in storage. The museum was there since 1969.
The Delta Museum and Archives Society, now called the Delta Heritage Society, continues to own the artifact collection and has a say in what the new museum will offer, but has relinquished day-to-day operational control to the city.
