Ancient House Museum’s Info Point is enabling visitors to delve deeper into its collections.
Following training from Wildfi, museum staff have been able to develop their own self-guided tours and add a range of multimedia content that visitors access on their own devices as Curator Oliver Bone explains below.
We are very pleased to be able to offer Info Point for visitors at Ancient House.
It provides a different way to share points of interest for visitors using people’s own phones without using their data. Currently the Ancient House’s content includes a River Heritage hotspot tour of the museum linking with the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers (BFER) project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.The Info Point system gives great flexibility for creating new content and allows the museum team to add new material about museum collections and local history. This is really helpful for connecting with exhibitions and events and the creation of specialist tours of the museum. It is a great legacy of the BFER project and will be really helpful for years to come.
It has been great working with the Info Point team who have always been very helpful and supportive with excellent communication at all times.
Oliver Bone, Curator, King’s Lynn and Thetford Museums
Partnership scheme
The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme—set up to conserve and celebrate the unique heritage of the Norfolk and Suffolk Brecks—has funded the installation of four Info Point devices in the local area: Ancient House Museum, RSPB Lakenheath, BTO Nunnery Lakes and West Stow Anglo Saxon Village, along with training for staff at each site to create and add content.
It also gives schools more access to heritage education content, and make it easier for site managers to share information with visitors.
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