Cultural Heritage Experiences – HILT

HILT participants are invited to attend special experiences in the city of Indianapolis. Organized with our attendees and their interests in mind, taking part in these experience offers an opportunity to befriend fellow HILT participants outside of your classroom.

Tuesday, June 4  |  6:00 – 7:30 pm

Join architectural archivist Jordan Ryan for a brief walking tour of significant downtown Indianapolis architecture, including historic buildings designed by Rubush & Hunter, mid-century Modern and Brutalist structures, and more recent urban revitalization projects. Tour will leave from campus and be roughly 3 miles of walking.

The Children’s Museum welcomes visitors with dinosaurs and the Reilly Sports Legend Experience

Friday, June 7 | 10:00 am – Noon

Guided Behind-the-Scenes Tour by Jennifer Noffze, Collections Manager, and the Children’s Museum Staff

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is an award-winning museum located here in Indianapolis. HILT attendees will receive a tour of the museum’s collection that contains over 130,000 artifacts and specimens in the Arts & Humanities and Natural Sciences. You’ll learn about the digital strategies the museum uses including the recently-released Ryan White Letters project.

This tour will be Friday, June 7th from 10 am to noon. The museum is accessible to our attendees with physical, auditory, and visual concerns. Our tour includes free parking and free admission to the Museum only for registered HILT experience attendees. You can register through the HILT registration portal. Please note: HILT will not provide transportation to the museum.

Please proceed to the information desk in the Children’s Museum lobby no later than 9:45 am. You will be met by your tour hosts and provided with your entry tickets.

Friday, June 7 | 10:00 am – Noon

Guided Behind-the Scenes Tour with Susan Sutton, Director of Digitization and the IHS Exhibitions Staff

Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has connected people to Indiana’s past by collecting, preserving and sharing the state’s history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, IHS maintains the nation’s premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest and presents a unique set of visitor experiences called the Indiana Experience. In this behind-the-scenes experience participants will explore what it takes to research and design museum exhibits that include digital aspects. You’ll also receive exposure to digital preservation efforts and the methods leveraged to preserve  the analog paper-based collection.

The museum is accessible to our attendees with physical, auditory, and visual concerns.  Admission to the historical society and museum will be free with registration for the tour. You can register through the HILT registration portal. We encourage those staying on campus to walk to the society.  Please note: HILT will not provide transportation to the society.

Please proceed to the information desk in the IHS lobby no later than 9:45 am. You will be met by your tour hosts. Please make sure to wear the yellow wristband that was provided in your name badge as it serves as your entry ticket to the tour.

Step into the Seasons of Japan invites guests into an immersive, interactive, multi-sensory experience.

Friday, June 7  |  10:00 am – Noon

Guided Behind-the Scenes Tour with software developers Ezra Birt and Daniel Keller of the Newfields Lab and Jen Mayhill, assistant director of interpretation, and Tascha Horowitz, director of interpretation, media, and publishing.

One of the largest art museums in the country, with 5,000 years of art history and active exhibition and education programs, The Indianapolis Museum of Art is the site of the Oldfields estate and the 152-campus Newfields campus. It is surrounded by historic landscapes, gardens, performance spaces, and an art and nature park, home to wetlands, woodlands, and outdoor sculptures. In this behind-the-scenes experience participants will experience the Step into the Seasons of Japan immersive room, the Clowes Portraits digital book, the Japanese Fashion virtual dressing room, and Design Gallery Miller House VR

The museum is accessible to our attendees with physical, auditory, and visual concerns.  Admission to the IMA will be free with registration for the tour. You can register through the HILT registration portal. The IMA at Newfields is located approximately a block west of the corner of 38th and Michigan Road (which—don’t be confused—is called Martin Luther King Jr. Street south of 38th). It’s free to park in the underground garage or the large surface lot near the museum. When you enter off 38th Street and want to park in the garage, just follow the signs. Please note: HILT will not provide transportation to the IMA.

Please proceed to the information desk in the IMA entrance no later than 9:45 am. You will be met by your tour hosts and provided with your entry tickets.