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•Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow
Museums
Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums
1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
4 Collections Navigator
5 Glasgow Life Photo Library
Digital & New Media at Glasgow Museums
1 Social Media Management
Digital & New Media – Overview
1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
Digital & New Media – Overview
DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA AT GLASGOW MUSEUMS
•Digital as primary form of interpretation
•All digital interpretation is for everyone - but every display has a
target audience
•All address the physical needs preferred learning styles of different
audiences
•Building on best practice and prototyping
•Pushing the boundaries of how digital interpretation is used in
museums
• Winner: European Museum of the Year 2013
• Winner: Best Science, Technical, Industrial Museum – European
Museum Academy,
Micheletti Award 2012
• Winner: Best Customer Experience – Scottish Digital Business
Awards 2012
• Winner: Best Engineering Design – Scottish Design Awards
2012
RIVERSIDE MUSEUM
•An object-based, visitor-centred, interdisciplinary, storytelling
museum service.
•Using digital to engage people’s imaginations & intellects.
•Telling the stories that our objects carry.
•To think about the past, about issues, to empathize with people
different to themselves.
DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - PHILOSOPHY
Primary interpretive types:
•Touch interfaces
•eStorybooks
•Games
•Video
•Large scale ‘shows’
•Mobile
DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - IN-GALLERY INTERPRETATION
Primary interpretive types:
•Touch interfaces
•eStorybooks
•Games
•Video
•Large scale ‘shows’
•Mobile
DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA - IN-GALLERY INTERPRETATION
Story Player – CMS
•Template based CMS
•Fully managed and updated in-house
•Full suite of staff trained in use
•Currently being updated
•Features in Kelvin Hall proposal
1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
Digital & New Media – Overview
Kelvin Hall Project
Kelvin Hall Project
•This project involves the innovative partnership use of a
landmark building to create a cultural hub for collections
storage, teaching and learning, research and public orientation
and engagement, combined with a sports and leisure facility
•It aims to bring together the world class collections of the city
and university of Glasgow and the national Scottish Screen
Archive to create a single cultural and intellectual resource for
the public, locally and globally
1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
4 Collections Navigator
Digital & New Media – Overview
Collections Navigator Phase 2
•User friendly searching
•Currently the Navigator only searches within selected fields on Mimsy XG and does not search for object-based information such as maker; culture; materials; credit line. This will be updated within development for KH
•December 2013 to March 2014
Collections Navigator Development Phase 3 Mapping and Aggregating
•The ability to search Collection Descriptions with more familiar geographical references such as postcodes
•The addition of a map-based interface to the Collections Navigator functionality
•The ability to publish the Collections Navigator records through other aggregating services, such as PastMap and GoogleMaps
•The ability to cross-search Glasgow Museums’ Collection Descriptions with Glasgow City Archives’ Archival Collection Descriptions
1 Social Media Management
2 Riverside
3 Kelvin Hall Project
4 Collections Navigator
5 Glasgow Life Photo Library
Digital & New Media – Overview
GLASGOW LIFE - DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – PHOTO LIBRARY. Launching, January 2014
The Glasgow Life Photo Library holds images from the unique collections of Glasgow Museums and Glasgow Libraries. With paintings from all the major European schools - including Old Masters, French Impressionists, Glasgow Boys (and Girls) and the pre-Raphaelites - to social history images and historic photographs of shipbuilding on the Clyde, we offer opportunities to add a fresh look to your product range, publication, project or campaign.
Going Forward
• Company investment in our Digital development
• Continue to invest in innovations that improve products and services
• Expansion of digital interpretive types across temp exhibitions and online
• Capital Projects
•Duncan Dornan, Senior Museums Manager, Glasgow
Museums
Glasgow Life – Glasgow Museums