Imagemakers on Heritage Apps

Posted by The Imagemakers Team in Blog Posts, Digital, Heritage, Interpretation on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 11:47 am | No Comments

Paul Davies, Digital Media Manger at Imagemakers looks at the interpretive benefits of mobile apps. http://www.vimeo.com/30090195 For more information on mobile apps visit: imagemakers.uk.com/heritageapps Follow us on Twitter for more thoughts...

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Tour of our Work in Chester for European Portico Partners

Posted by Liz in Blog Posts, Heritage, Interpretation on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 8:16 am | No Comments

  The restoration and new interpretation of Chester’s Walls & Towers will be completed in early 2012. This work is part of the pan-European Portico Project in which four cities have joined forces to share innovative techniques in restoration and best practice for visitor experiences.  Last week, David Masters, our lead consultant on the project, took members from partner cities (Ghent, Cologne and Utrecht) on a tour of the City Walls to discuss the new interpretation. There was a lot of interest in Imagemakers’ holistic approach and the combination of...

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What’s the point of interpretation?

Posted by Simon in Blog Posts, Interpretation on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 at 2:56 pm | No Comments

I’ve sometimes heard people ask, ‘Why is something that happened hundreds of years ago important? What difference does it make now?’ Well, I know there are many ways to try to answer that question, but here goes one attempt at an answer… The Imagemakers office in Nottingham overlooks a beautiful old churchyard – so old, in fact, that the ancient Anglo-Saxon church which stood on this site is mentioned in Domesday Book. I often see people from the nearby offices passing through this churchyard around lunchtime, on their way to buy a sandwich at one of the...

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Good news from Florida – part 2

Posted by Charlie Curnow in Interpretation on Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 12:37 pm | No Comments

Some great comments here from visitors who’ve recently enjoyed the new visitor experience and interpretation at Strata Flordia...

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A roaring success

Posted by Matthew Jones in Blog Posts, Design, Exhibition Design, Interactive, Interpretation, Photography, Planning, Uncategorized on Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 2:53 pm | No Comments

Well done to all the team at Port Lympne! Yesterday I attended the opening ceremony for an exciting new visitor experience at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent. At the heart of the visitor experience is a new safari-style tour around the 600 acre site. For this people set off from ‘Basecamp’ on the backs of former army trucks. The trucks take you on an authentically bumpy track through the ‘African Experience’, where giraffe, water buffalo, gazelles, zebra (and a huge supporting cast of other beasts) roam freely across an enormous grassy escarpment with sweeping...

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