Gamifying tourist attractions – a new project!

The Slovenian Alpine Museum in Mojstrana presents an innovative breakthrough in gamification – an interactive experience trail called “Escape to the Bivouac”, a pioneering concept designed and brought to life by Enigmarium^®!

The Slovenian Alpine Museum team understands the wishes of their visitors. Their permanent exhibition is structured as a museum narrative, enriched with interactive challenges. Encouraged by enthusiastic feedback, they took a bold step forward—gamifying a museum exhibit, the legendary Bivouac II.

The Legendary Bivouac II was built by members of the Tourist Club Skala from the nearby mountain town of Jesenica, Slovenia in 1936 on the Na Jezerih plateau above the Vrata Valley and beneath Rokavs Ridge. At the end of 2015, they moved the Bivouac to the valley where it enjoys its well-deserved retirement placed on the rocky cliff on the meadow before the museum. Since it was not possible to change the exhibit component itself, with the cooperation and support of the local community they installed a hidden space in which the adventure path is located.

The museum then invited us, pioneers and trendsetters of escape room activities and gamification in tourism, to enhance the exhibit. Since at Enigmarium® we are happiest when we are developing something new and creative on an international level – especially after the innovative achievement with our Escape Igloo® – we have this time left our creative mark on the development of the concept, game play and implementation of the adventure path to the Bivouac II.

But beware! This is not a classic “escape room” where moderators oversee the game and reset the room. Instead, it is an innovative – fully automated – way of progressing through the game, which we developed specifically for this project. It is considered the first fully automated project in the field of escape room activities.

It’s possible to get to the Bivouac only by making it through four challenges that are associated with mountaineering skills that come in handy in the mountains. Since as you know:

Mountains are unpredictable.
The weather can change in a minute.
A storm is coming and you have but one solution:

ESCAPE TO THE BIVOUAC!

Will you decipher the hidden codes? Will you avoid the gaps and traps? Will you remember the right path? Will you find the right bivouac and save yourself?
Every path has its own story.
What will yours be?

Visit the Slovenian Alpine Museum in Mojstrana and set off on a thrilling adventure and innovation in the field of museum gamification!

THE PROJECT WON THE HONORARY VALVASOR AWARD, AND THE MUSEUM RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR THE BEST SLAVIC MUSEUM!