I’ve worked at Bristol Museums for just over two years now, and still now and then I’ll be chatting to someone or receive an email saying “oh, did you know that such and such website is ours?” Which I then add to my growing list and maybe have a little grumble to myself about. Now, … Continue reading Websites coming out of the woodwork
In 2014 we launched www.bristolmuseums.org.uk in what we imaginatively called ‘phase one’ which not only gave us a service wide presence but allowed us to: Follow the GDS service delivery approach for the first time – discovery, alpha, beta to live identify real user needs through a discovery phase plan to make the website a … Continue reading Starting website phase two
On the 15th of May we quietly launched our new website phase one www.bristolmuseums.org.uk which was made possible with the hard work of lots of staff here and at fffunction. I’ll be writing very soon about the weeks in the lead up to release, what happened at launch and what we have planned next.
Affinity diagram – the result of considering audience and business needs We receive over one million unique visitors to our two primary websites, the Bristol museum and Art Gallery museum section hosted on the Bristol City Council website and our own M Shed website. In addition to these two sites, we also have at least … Continue reading New website project kick-off
My name is Adelina and I am a third year English Literature with Writing student at the University of the West of England. For this year`s writing module, students like me are undertaking a 36-hour long placement. The idea is that we feel prepared to find a suitable job after graduating. This is why we … Continue reading My Placement with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Introduction I’m George, a new member of the team on a year fixed term contract, coming from a background of website UX and other IT technical experience. My former role had a high focus on web standards, accessibility and a lot of ownership over what with publish but following guidance. I have taken a big … Continue reading Improving our Users Experience and Data driven decisions: Digital User Research at Bristol Culture
If you didn’t know already, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is home to a permanent gallery exploring the history of Egypt. This gallery hosts information belonging to the objects on touchscreen enabled kiosks. When they were installed this was the height of in-gallery audience interaction. As we re-opened in September 2020 after lockdown, the use … Continue reading QR codes! And labels! And ongoing research into on-site audience participation! (…Oh my)
About Me I am a MA student studying Museum Cultures at Birkbeck University,(London). I have an academic interest in Black History and telling the stories of underrepresented groups and communities. A part of the course requires me to undertake a work placement (remotely) in which there was an opportunity to be a Digital Intern for … Continue reading Michael Simpson, Digital Intern- Bristol Museums
When Colston was toppled on the 7th of June 2020, the Bristol Museum website received a record number of pageviews. In contrast to the lower engagement during prior months of the pandemic, this was pretty striking. Understandably, not many people were checking the museum Opening Times or What’s On pages as museum doors were closed … Continue reading Exploring engagement in a digital museum: interning at Bristol Culture
In order to help us plan how we reopen our museums we created an online public survey which we have publicised via our social media channels, our website, community networks, and e-newsletter. Our reopening will be phased and will begin with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and M Shed. A date for reopening has … Continue reading ‘Planning to Reopen’ public survey – 10 findings so far