future museum south west scotland project
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Future Museum
A Digital Partnership
Jason Sutcliffe
Team Leader – Collection Care
East Ayrshire Leisure
2003 Launch of Regional Development Challenge
Fund
- Scottish Executive
- Managed by the Scottish Museums Council
- Replaced Strategic Change Fund
- £3m fund (max per project of £100,000 per
year for 3 years)
Designed to:
- Develop capacity and sustainability of museum
sector
- Encourage museums of all types to work in
partnership, across authority boundaries
- Improve collaboration between museums and other
authorities and agencies
2003 Launch of Regional Development Challenge
Fund
2004 East Ayrshire Council and Dumfries and
Galloway Council begin discussions about possible
projects, then soon after with partners across SW
Scotland
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and informationPeople
Life and
Work
Arts and
Crafts
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Objects in SW Scotland
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Objects in SW Scotland
- “come and see the real thing in our museum”
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Objects in SW Scotland
- “come and see the real thing in our museum”
- Free use and access of images / information for
education
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Objects in SW Scotland
- “come and see the real thing in our museum”
- Free use and access of images / information for
education
- Lifelong learners
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Objects in SW Scotland
- “come and see the real thing in our museum”
- Free use and access of images / information for
education
- Lifelong learners
- Not Natural History
- Some collaborative working in the past
- Shared stories and histories e.g. industries, WW2,
Burns
- Unique stories e.g. Dumfries silver, Alexander
Fleming
- Promotion of the venues and collections
- Objects and information
Web resource
- Objects in SW Scotland
- “come and see the real thing in our museum”
- Free use and access of images / information for
education
- Lifelong learners
- Not Natural History
- Had to be manageable – no public editing
More than just a website
- Touring exhibitions
- Interactives
- News and events
- Real opportunity for cross-regional, cross-sectoral
working
More than just a website
- Touring exhibitions
- Interactives
- News and events
- Real opportunity for cross-regional, cross-sectoral
working
- Publications
More than just a website
- Touring exhibitions
- Interactives
- News and events
- Real opportunity for cross-regional, cross-sectoral
working
- Publications
- Digital and photographic skills sharing
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
- How to manage public feedback and enquiries
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
- How to manage public feedback and enquiries
- Ongoing funding e.g. web-hosting
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
- How to manage public feedback and enquiries
- Ongoing funding e.g. web-hosting
- Where would it be hosted?
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
- How to manage public feedback and enquiries
- Ongoing funding e.g. web-hosting
- Where would it be hosted?
- IT departments
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
- How to manage public feedback and enquiries
- Ongoing funding e.g. web-hosting
- Where would it be hosted?
- IT departments
- Server space – image size
Issues
- Partnership agreements – distrust from smaller
partners
- How would the web resource be built?
- Copyright
- Who will digitise the images?
- Staff time commitment for research / content input
- How to manage public feedback and enquiries
- Ongoing funding e.g. web-hosting
- Where would it be hosted?
- IT departments
- Server space – image size
- Would this be a collections database?
2003 Launch of Regional Development Challenge
Fund
2004 East Ayrshire Council and Dumfries and
Galloway Council begin discussions about possible
projects
2004/5 Bid in to R.D.C.F.
£280,000 over 3 years from R.D.C.F.
£95,000 staffing commitment from key partners
2003 Launch of Regional Development Challenge
Fund
2004 East Ayrshire Council and Dumfries and
Galloway Council begin discussions about possible
projects
2004/5 Bid in to R.D.C.F. – successful!!
2005 Commissioning of website design
Recruitment of Digitisation Assistants
Content development
Touring exhibitions
2003 Launch of Regional Development Challenge
Fund
2004 East Ayrshire Council and Dumfries and
Galloway Council begin discussions about possible
projects
2004/5 Bid in to R.D.C.F.
2005 Commissioning of website design
Recruitment of Digitisation Assistants
Content development
Touring exhibitions
2006 LAUNCH
The first 3 years
- 11,000 objects digitised
- Nearly 150,000 unique visits
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Future Museum Normal Hits 2006-08
Statutory Performance Indicators
The first 3 years
- 11,000 objects digitised
- Nearly 150,000 unique visits
- 3 Touring / cross-venue exhibitions created with
visitor figures of 119,000 in total across 8 venues in
region
El Dorado / The Legacy
Strands
South by South West
The first 3 years
- 11,000 objects digitised
- Nearly 150,000 unique visits
- 3 Touring / cross-venue exhibitions created with
visitor figures of 119,000 in total across 8 venues in
region
- 5 artist commissions
Dust Mask
Kathleen McKay,
2008
The first 3 years
- 11,000 objects digitised
- Nearly 150,000 unique visits
- 3 Touring / cross-venue exhibitions created with
visitor figures of 119,000 in total across 16 venues in
region
- 5 artist commissions
- 5 interactive resources
After R.D.C.F.
2008 Additional £65,000 funding secured to extend
Digitisation Assistants and marketing
After R.D.C.F.
2008 Additional £65,000 funding secured to extend
Digitisation Assistants and marketing
2011 Recognition funding from D&G allowed rebuild of
site in order to feature archaeological mapping.
Now built around open-source system.
After R.D.C.F.
2008 Additional £65,000 funding secured to extend
Digitisation Assistants and marketing
2011 Recognition funding from D&G allowed rebuild of
site in order to feature archaeological mapping.
Now built around open-source system.
2012 Relaunch
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Future Museum annual Normal hits
1 million hits in January 2015
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
“Generation South by South West 2014”
A Future Museum partnership project
Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
- Average length of visit – 19:21
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
- Average length of visit – 19:21
- Top Search Phrases
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
- Average length of visit – 19:21
- Top Search Phrases
Benefits
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
- Average length of visit – 19:21
- Top Search Phrases
Benefits
- Enquiries from public can be quickly dealt with
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
- Average length of visit – 19:21
- Top Search Phrases
Benefits
- Enquiries from public can be quickly dealt with
- High quality collection images to hand
Other facts and figures
- Visitor figures on the rise
- Major cross-venue exhibition in 2014
- 5 more interactives on site
- 36 partners – and more to come
- Average length of visit – 19:21
- Top Search Phrases
Benefits
- Enquiries from public can be quickly dealt with
- High quality collection images to hand
- Increased profile – image requests, etc.
The future of Future Museum
- Ongoing hosting
- New design?
- Social Media?
- Partnership commitments?
The future of Future Museum
- Ongoing hosting
- New design?
- Social Media?
- Partnership commitments?
- Dedicated staffing?