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AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2015281The following examples illustrate the advantages of using Fab Labs for educational projects at museums.The Museo Interactivo de la Música in Malaga,174 designed from the outset as a smartmuseum that already provides visitors with wearable smart wristbands to customise their visit, has joined ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs). It is committed to involving and empowering visitors and citizens in all innova- tive processes carried out at the museum in the field of music.The Mimma Lab is designed as a multipurpose and interdisciplinary space for projects and experiments that combine concepts such as new museum trends and those characteristicof a music museum. It is intended to become a meeting place for citizens and creators, artists, educators and entrepreneurs where new technologies, creation, culture and innovative ideas converge and are introduced to the public, and professionals and companies can test their prototypes in a real environment. Its core philosophy is co-creation and distributed knowledge.A magnificent example of a laboratory in a cultural institution is CCCB LAB, a department of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona devoted to research, transformation and innovation in the field of culture. Its initia- tives and proposals are put into practice at the CCCB. The team views innovation as the duty of institutions and it has played an essential role at the centre since it opened in 1994.One of its areas of work studies digital tech- nologies and the cultural changes they spur. Its projects and studies stem from the emergence of new methodologies of work, types and formats, production and distribution of knowledge.It also creates and manages projects that create their own feedback and are progressively growing as a result of the research and activities it sched- ules. Some of them are open science, expanded education, audiences and virtual environments.CCCB LabThe centre’s website features a blog175 (discussed in a previous section) for publishing thoughts and reports on the various projects; the idea is to share what has been learned and to learn from others. It has set up a support network with which it shares achievements and experiences, which is not only virtual but also internal and cross-cutting. Creating a community of shared knowledge is one of the motivations that pro- vides value and widens the dissemination and debate on content.4. Labs