AXSChat Podcast
AXSChat Podcast
Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh, Neil Milliken
How A Berlin Museum Makes Science Touchable
27 minutes Posted May 6, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
Welcome And Guest Introduction
Digitising A 30 Million Object Collection
A Blind Child Sparks The Idea
Building A Responsive Crocodile Model
Why The Next Model Is Smaller
Choosing The Beetle And Partners
Designing Touch Anywhere Sensors
What Interdisciplinary Work Really Teaches
Why Dung Beetles Matter To Humans
Funding Routes And Product Plans
How To Connect And Help
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A museum can hold 30 million objects and still feel inaccessible if the experience depends on sight alone. We sit down with Tina Schneider from the Natural History Museum in Berlin to hear how her team is pushing beyond digitisation and into real world inclusion by turning digital specimens into tactile, responsive learning tools. Tina shares the moment that changed her priorities: a visitor tells her how her blind daughter arrived thrilled to see the dinosaurs, then felt bored and left earl...