Working Together: Digital Solutions

Sam ElliottTransition Manager Bolton Library and Museum Service

Task:

Renaissance North West : Sustainable Futures Fund

Aim: Increase sustainability

Using the fund to work with Greater Manchester Museums Group to ensure that they have a relevant legacy post Renaissance and to ensure they have the resources to continue in the future.

Greater Manchester Museum Group (GMMG)

• GMMG historically provided a forum for museum professionals to share good practice and work based issues

• Renaissance involvement in recent years meant that GMMG is now more strategic

• Senior managers group, ensuring that museums in Greater Manchester can be discussed at a high level

• During past eighteen months GMMG has been focusing on three projects that feed into the aims of the Sustainable Futures Fund. The three projects are themed around shared services

GMMG Partners

Touchstones

Tameside Museums

Wigan Museum

of LifeSalford

Museum

Gallery Oldham

Stockport Museums

Bury Art Museum

Bolton Museum

GMMG Partners

1. Touring Exhibitions and Collection Loans2. Retail Development3. Schools and Education Services

3. Schools and Education Services

A. Online DevelopmentB. Learning Partnership Group

Three projects

Learning Partnership Group(Led by Louise Sutherland)

• Share good practice• Network of learning professionals• Strategy for future joint projects• Analysis of data captured from venues• Exploring full Greater Manchester Learning Offer • Ambassadors for GMMG• Advice surgery• Neutral space

Greater Manchester Museums Group

Greater Manchester Museums Group

Online Development

• Create a central website for GMMG that ensures it is a visible and accessible group

• Create digital resources that form online learning sessions based on the collections from the partner venues

• Provide a solution to a reduced staff capacity by creating an online offer that compliments an onsite offer

• Sustainable offer

Digital Resources

Working with D2 Digital to create high quality resources

D2 Digital

http://www.d2digital.co.uk/

@d2_digital

GMMG Website

GMMG Website – partner venue page

Rochdale Tour

Virtual Tours of Museums and Towns

Example digital resources for GMMG

Digital Scrapbook

Example digital resources for GMMG

Panorama reconstruction

Example digital resources for GMMG

Panorama reconstruction

Example digital resources for GMMG

complete panorama

zoomed section

360 degree object images

Example digital resources for GMMG

Paper based resources

Example digital resources for GMMG

Going Forward

GMMG

• Joint funding applications• Shared services• Joint online learning offer• Staff members involved in the • Network groups• and much more…….

Questions?

Sam Elliott

Transition Manager

Bolton Library and Museum Service

Samantha.elliot@bolton.gov.uk

@samelliot1