摘要：Digital media offer unique opportunities for museums to bring to life the secrets and stories of their historical *** bring insight into the process of developing digital media exhibits,this paper presents the perspective of a creative practitioner in approaching technology-and media-based interpretation for collection *** follows the Time,Culture and Identity digital workshop held in Beijing in October 2019,which explored and shared ideas about collaborative research and interdisciplinary practice in digital interpretation between academics,institutions,creative practitioners,and *** the direction of the workshop,the paper takes as its focus the clocks and automatons of the imperial collection at the Palace Museum in *** are based on the author’s practice-led experience in running a design studio,Harmonic Kinetic,developing new media exhibits using digital technology and audiovisual media for museums,galleries,and exhibitions in the UK,including the Science Museum,V&A,Barbican,Tate,and the Tower of *** a broad interaction-design-led outlook,the paper explores a personal design perspective for developing interpretive content and considers the particular opportunities and approaches these historical devices *** paper concludes with a final section that reviews the process and reflects on outcomes from the Time,Culture and Identity digital *** explored possibilities for an interpretive exhibit on the Country Scene clock from the Palace Museum collection.