Feb 28, 2008

Experimental gallery trail

Category: General

I arranged with Manchester Art Gallery to pilot QR (Quick Response) codes in the Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery display. The trail lets you access information on objects on display from your mobile phone, through specially designed web pages. The pages invite visitors to submit comments on six works on show, and listen to and read poems and comments on some of the objects. Matt Haworth, Revealing Histories Web Coordinator produced the codes and created the web pages.

Sugar nippers in a display case with the QR code and visitors comments.

More information on the display is at Manchester City Galleries' website.

Come to the Gallery on Mosley Street, Manchester and try out your phone. If you don't have a barcode reader on your phone you may be able to download one at http://reader.kaywa.com/ or http://www.i-nigma.com/personal/GetReader.asp

Update

More information on the trial is at Manchester Digital Development Agency's website.

The trial is one of the case studies in my report 'Reviewing Machine Readable Labelling Systems for Collections Management and Access' for the London Museums Hub. The full report is  available at www.collectionslink.org.uk/find_a_network/regional_networks/sustainable_storage

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