Conferentie Erfgoed, virtueel en augmented, 29 november 2016 @ FARO, Brussel

1. Walking through the Bronze Age:
The value of virtual reality
environments for museums
Lizzie Edwards. Education Manager:
Samsung Digital Learning Programme
@lizzie_E100
#SamsungCentre
FARO, Brussels, November 2016

2. Talk structure:
- Why
- How
- Practicalities.
Walking through the
Bronze Age

5. Approaches:
- Object/historic enquiry
- Creative Response

8. Object enquiry

11. Virtual Reality at the
British Museum

12. Virtual Reality at the
British Museum
Research area:
What value does a virtual reality environment
add to understanding Museum collection
objects, for the audiences of the SDDC learning
programme?

13. Talk structure:
- Why
- How
- Practicalities.
Walking through the
Bronze Age

14. - Make the most of it
- Consider audience
limitations
Challenges and
opportunities

15. + Audience value
Why the Bronze Age?

26. Talk structure:
- Why
- How
- Practicalities.
Walking through the
Bronze Age

28. - 1-1 facilitation model
- Finding out a visitors
name
- ‘Hot-swaps’ facilitator
- Non-linear user
journey
Practicalities

29. Evaluation
“The technology allowed me to see things
that I wouldn’t have been able to see before,
especially the Wollaston”
“It made me feel as if I was actually there and
gave me a sense of how things actually were
in the Bronze Age”
“Fantastic, interactive way to learn, wanted to
spend more time. It really helps visualize the
height and depth of a Bronze Age village”

30. Virtual Reality at the
British Museum
Research area:
What value does a virtual reality environment
add to understanding Museum collection
objects, for the audiences of the SDDC learning
programme?

31. What’s next?

32. “Our reason to be, as a museum, is to try
and reach the widest possible audience
and we see virtual reality as a new way of
reaching audiences who perhaps
previously haven’t found the museum as
inspiring or as accessible as they might”
Neil Wilkin
Curator, Bronze Age Collection, The British Museum

33. Lizzie Edwards
@Lizzie_E100
ledwards@britishmuseum.org
Juno Rae
@junorae
jrae@britishmuseum.org
Find out more at:
www.britishmuseum.org/Samsungcentre
#SamsungCentre
Photos: Benedict Johnson, unless otherwise stated
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