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I did my presentation about my final project for Gabriella today. Then Matt gave me a website where has a lot of collecting box design ideas on it. It is very helpful, I really appreciate it.

THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS’ FUND RAISING RITUAL 

It is a Pitt Rivers Museum Collecting box in Oxford, made in 1996. "The Pitt Rivers is a wonderful museum of anthropology, and the history of anthropology. It has remained a classic victorian style museum, crammed with objects, divided into sensible straightforward categories like medicines, armaments, firelighting etc, most with hand written labels, often entertainingly idiosyncratic.

When a visitor approaches the collecting box, the wooden anthropologists inside rise up and point accusingly (their eyes also glow). When a coin is inserted the anthropologists lean over, a gesture originally intended as a bow, but appears more as if they are simply inspecting the donation.

The wooden anthropologists are all based on real anthropologists who contributed to the museum’s collection – the style inspired by the museum’s collection of African carvings."

At the bottom of the website, there is a report "FUND RAISING WITH AUTOMATA COLLECTING BOXES" which I didn't read yet. I need to go through this.

ST THOMAS' HOSPITAL COLLECTING BOX 2005-6

When the donor insert a coin and press one of the lift buttons to guess which lift will arrive first.

The porter pushes the patient to the lift the donor have selected. The lift indicators then move until one reaches the ground floor. The doors then open, revealling one of the figures below. If the donor have 'won' (selected the right lift), a character comes out of the lift to treat the patient. 

The caterer comes out & offers food to the patient, who then sits up and nods in approval.

This is the video show us how the box work. I think the success of this project is that it utilise the curiosity of people.