1) Twelve elementary schools from around Jerusalem participated in a treasure hunt game at the Israel Museum where students used clues on a digital platform and the Google Art Project to direct classmates physically at the museum to locate treasures in the galleries. 2) Students had to correctly answer questions about artworks after their classmates found them and take photos as proof before receiving the next clue. 3) The game was meant to inspire the message "The other is me" and brought together words to complete the sentence "Sometimes I am similar, other times I am different but at all times I am equal."

1. Education Week March 2014
The other is me - Telematic Treasure Hunt at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
March 2014 The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, together with the Directorate
of Computers in Educational
Administration, in the Jerusalem
Municipality and the Department of
Information Technology in the Ministry of
Education launched a challenging
treasure hunt where elementary school
students from 12 schools from around
Jerusalem sought out their ‘treasure’ in
an exciting game that took place
throughout the Museum campus.

2. The treasure hunt took place simultaneously in the school and in the Museum with the class-based
students directing their representatives in the Museum to the eight treasures located in the galleries by
using the Google Art Project.

3. As the students received their first clue that appeared on their specially built digital platform,
(LINOIT), they dispatched their representatives in the Museum – between 3-5 students
accompanied by an adult – to the specific location in the gallery.

4. The Museum team’s role was to
take a photo of the object using
their Android tablet and send it in
by email to be uploaded into the
game’s dedicated Google+ gallery
as ‘proof’ of their discovery.

10. Meanwhile, the classroom-located students had to answer specific questions about the artwork
and upload their answers into the system.
Only after the class
replied correctly to
the first set of
questions and the
successful upload of
the Museum’s team’s
‘proof’ of finding the
art in the gallery did
the system release
the next of the eight
challenges. (The
“system” being the
dedicated
Municipality staff
who managed the
game from the
operation center in
the Museum New
Media Center).

11. At this point in the game,
the Museum-based
students came back to a
central point in the
Museum to receive an
envelope with the first
printed word of the full
sentence they would
need in order to
complete the game.

12. The telematic challenge took place during Education Week and was inspired by the message “The
other is me”. As the game moved forward, and as each team found the correct solutions and posted
the correct photo, further words were added to eventually come together to make up the sentence
"Sometimes I am similar, other times I am different but at all times I am equal”.

14. The game took place in
both Hebrew and Arabic
according to school’s
requirements, but all the
students seemed to be
competent enough in
English to be able to use
the maps and
explanations in GAP to
send their friends
scrambling around the
galleries and Art Garden.

15. After many hours of intrepid excitement the winning team received their prize from Jerusalem Mayor
Nir Barkat in the presence of Moshe Tur-Paz, Director, Jerusalem Education Administration (MANHI)
and National ICT Supervisor in the Ministry of Education, Ronit Nehemiah. The ceremony was
webcast to the schools in real-time so that all of the students could ‘take part’ in the celebration.

16. See the photos
Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media, Lihi Sapir, Curator of the Resnick Art Education Training
Center Neta Cohen, Head of Productions and Events Department, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Neomi Schey, Director, Viki Agami and Etty Rosen
Directorate of Computers in Educational Administration, the Jerusalem Municipality