The project, included in the PST “Ecoparque 3.0, Territorio Vitamina” and funded with Next Generation funds, has a budget of €190,000.
Aware of the great potential of this facility and that it can offer visitors a much more complete experience, the Arnuero Tourism Sustainability Plan has proposed several actions which, together, aim to transform this Ecoparque de Trasmiera centre into a must-visit in Cantabria and Northern Spain.
The planned activities are, together with this immersive experience, intended to expand the current museum concept: the creation of an Escape Room in which players will need to use their skills to save the planet before its final destruction, and the acquisition of outdoor “escape” game boxes, especially aimed at families and school groups to play in nature.
The first of the tenders is one aimed at expanding and digitising the museum space that exists today, with an installation that will offer an immersive experience in the so-called glass room on the ground floor, under the conceptual proposal “The Power of the Tides”, dedicated to explaining the tides—how they work, how they affect people and, above all, to suggesting that an intertidal zone may have been the place where life first appeared. After the immersive experience, visitors will be given the opportunity to observe the salt marsh from this privileged viewpoint.
The proposal “The Power of the Tides”, besides being an exciting experience, is intended to have an outreach and awareness-raising purpose; to this end it will be divided into three sections: under the influence of the moon, the origin of life and the salvation of the planet. The first part will contain information relating to the moon’s power in the tide phenomenon, and then it will show visitors the environmental importance of the intertidal spaces so characteristic of our marshlands—so much so as to support the theory that life, as we know it today, may have emerged in an intertidal zone. The experience will end with a visualisation of the evolution of these spaces and, in general, of the planet due to ongoing human aggression, so as to overwhelm the audience and prompt in them a necessary change of attitude regarding their environmental awareness.
The tender has been published on the State procurement platform and is currently open, so that companies specialising in the development of museum-related resources can submit a Technical Report of their executive development proposal for this initial script, within the established budget limit of 190,000 euros.
The project is part of the digitisation pillar of the Arnuero Tourism Sustainability Plan for the Destination “Ecoparque 3.0, territorio vitamina” (PSTD), funded entirely by the contribution of the Regional Government of Cantabria through Next Generation funds, which come from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Mechanism. It is included, as sub-measure 2 of the PRTR, in Component 14 Investment 1.
