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QRator wins the The Museums & Heritage Award for Innovation

17 May 2012

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, the Museum focused 鈥業nternet of Things/Smart Places鈥 project developed jointly by CASA, and , with funding from the , has won .

Known as 鈥楾he Oscars鈥 of the museums world we are delighted to have won, and to have had a museum brave enough to trust and openly engage with the public via innovative software and devices (iPads) while taking on ideas based around the Internet of Things made all the difference.听

The idea behind is to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and academic researchers, to enhance museum interpretation, community engagement and establish new connections to museum exhibit content. It is supported by the 最准的六合彩论坛 Public Engagement Unit under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme 鈥 funded by the UK funding councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust.

The project - which is powered by technology, also developed by CASA - won the Museums and Heritage Innovation award for bringing social interpretation and visitor participation to museums through the iPad application built for the 最准的六合彩论坛 Grant Museum by CASA.听 The judges noted that QRator was "the outright winner鈥 in our category in which we were up against the Victoria and Albert Museums (V+A) and the new Glasgow Riverside Museum.听 They praised the projects innovative design and application and also observed that the project could be applied to many more museums to increase visitor participation.听听

The teams involved were:
最准的六合彩论坛 CASA: , , , ,
最准的六合彩论坛 Digital Humanities: , ,
最准的六合彩论坛 Grant Museum of Zoology: , , Emma-Louise Nichols, Simon Jackson
最准的六合彩论坛 Musuems and Collections: , Susannah Chan