Paying for Pay What You Think In 2013 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) ran its first Pay What You Think pricing model at the temporary exhibition; Taylor Wessing: Photographic Portrait Prize. The principle is very simple – visitors enter the exhibition for free and pay the amount they feel the exhibition was worth by putting money in … Continue reading Text to Pay for Museum Exhibitions: A Step-by-step guide
Hello! My name’s Rachel and I’m a Heritage Lottery Fund Skills for the Future graduate trainee. I am usually based in Worcester as part of the Worcestershire’s Treasures project, with my traineeship focused on audience development and events. As part of the traineeship I’m able to do a week’s secondary placement at another museum or … Continue reading A week in the Bristol Museums digital team
We haven’t done an update on website phase two in a while, mainly because we’ve been busy bees behind the scenes with testing and implementing lots of new stuff. We’re now in the midst of milestone three, having done some work on improvements in milestone one and having held our milestone two workshops a little … Continue reading bristolmuseums.org.uk – phase two, milestone three
Well it seems it’s March already. This means we’re now two milestones into project website phase two. We’ve done a chunk of work on events filtering, which you can try out here: http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/ Hopefully you’ll agree it’s pretty simple and useful. Of course we did a spot of user testing for it and got lots … Continue reading bristolmuseums.org.uk – phase two, milestone two
Considering the needs of our users is at the heart of all our services and r&d projects are no different. Littered throughout our digital service work you’ll see reference to Government Digital Service’s ‘Service Manual’ which has helpful guidance on considering accessibility in their resources on ‘assisted digital‘ which they define as: “Assisted digital is … Continue reading 3.9.2 Accessibility review for Hidden Museum
We’re now starting work on phase two of our website, www.bristolmuseums.org.uk, as Zak has already mentioned. So here’s a bit more detail about what we’re planning, once again following the GDS phases of service design. (Note: if you’d like to read about what we did for phase one, you’re in luck – we’ve lots of … Continue reading bristolmuseums.org.uk – Phase Two Planning
We are using Google Chrome to publish collections based information and multimedia to the galleries in M Shed using a web application. Here are a few pointers which have helped us get the system up and running How to run chrome in kiosk mode? Google Chrome comes with a built in kiosk mode which makes … Continue reading Running Google Chrome in Kiosk Mode – Tips, Tricks and Workarounds
We aim to make the museum more accessible for all visitors and adding subtitles goes a long way to help us achieve this. For example see the video below, of the audio description DiscoveryPens, in use in the French Art Gallery, at their launch event. DiscoveryPENS launch – at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery I … Continue reading Video Subtitling – making content more accessible
Something we’ve started in the last week or so is building out the BMAG pattern library. Eventually this will contain all the elements that will make up the website. We’ve already got some visual design going on, some core elements such as colour and typography and also wireframes in the form of screenshots from the … Continue reading Building the Pattern Library
Since our initial review of user research, I’ve been busy developing information architecture and navigation ideas. We’ve worked up an initial information architecture and navigation which is geared towards getting museum visitors the information that they need but which will allow the site to expand to accommodate content for other users in later phases of … Continue reading Building a prototype and user testing