•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