Philadelphia Zoo and Laurel Hill Cemetery get tech exhibits
Philadelphia Zoo Touchscreen Installation
Open during normal business hours
3400 West Girard Avenue
West Philadelphia, PA.
Laurel Hill Cemetery Cell Phone Tour Launch Party
Friday, July 31st, 7:00pm
3822 Ridge Avenue, East Falls, Philadelphia, PA
Free
Two mainstays of Philadelphia tourism have added tech-inspired exhibit additions.
The Philadelphia Zoo and Laurel Hill Cemetery have both embraced clever technologies meant to help educate their customers in interactive ways.
The zoo has installed touchscreens with an interactive application that highlights the conservation of its prized Amur and snow leopard cats. Laurel Hill, on the banks of the Schuylkill River south of East Falls, now lets visitors roam its acres of gravestones with only a cell phone as a guide.
It’s innovative stuff like this that has us considering leaving our PCs. For a few hours, anyway.
Philadelphia has seen an increase recently in technology-based tourist attractions, including the Rosenbach Museum and Library’s Abe Lincoln iPhone app, which we reported on in May. Last week we offered a few of our own local recommendations in a top ten list of Philly iPhone applications that don’t exist but should.
But those are housed on a phone. The cemetery and zoo are encouraging us to get out of the house, which is a recommendation duly noted.
