Visitor Experience at Tate Britain

I was recently asked to help the Interpretation and Information teams at Tate Britain present a persuasive case for a greatly enhanced information and interpretation provision for visitors. This ‘mindmap,’ if that’s the right term for it, aims to illustrate the many ways in which a visitor might engage with an artwork. Using a Henry Moore sculpture as an iconic example worked well, repeated over 20 times in various contexts to emphasis the point.

August 19th, 2009 | Read | No Comments

» Audio Tours

Mind-mapping for mobiles

Well, the end of last week saw a great couple of days at Tate Modern working on Audiotours to iPhones, a workshop and conference for the museums and galleries community. Thursday’s session was a very productive workshop involving around 25 people working at the busy and fast-changing intersection of museum interpretation and mobile technologies. 
I was [...]

September 8th, 2008 | Read | No Comments

» eLearning

Portraits activities launched…

The new, updated kids’ activities on the Portraits and Portraiture site we produced for the Museum Network finally launched recently. A heady mix of hand-drawn stuff by me, slick Flash work by Hugh Williams of DUNK and a range of amazing portraits by Rembrandt, Hals and Velázquez, to name but three, make this a winning formula [...]

September 4th, 2009 | Read | No Comments