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Making museums places for everyone – innovative approaches shared at NWFed’s annual conference
NWFed Board Member, Eleanor, reviews our recent In Conversation event at Manchester Museum As well as being a wonderful opportunity to meet and connect with other museum professionals from across the North West, and hear about some incredible projects that have been happening in our region, NWFed’s ‘In Conversation: Museums – Places for Everyone event’ on Thursday 12 October 2023 ...
Mon Nov 13
SURVEY: Haptic and Tactile Museum Experience, Virtual Object Handling
  Museum artefacts are usually displayed behind glass often too fragile, small, heavy or valuable to allow the public to handle physically making most museum artefacts for display only. With the increasing rarity that museum objects or a replica object can be touched or held within the museum setting, Manchester Museum and technology partner TAD Systems Ltd embarked on an investigation into the use of Haptic technology ...
Thu Dec 10