Shaping the landsape
Exhibition for the Clyde & Avon Valley Landscape.
Mary Queen of Scots House
Visitors can now explore the chequered life of this famous Scottish Queen and find out about her time in the Scottish Borders. CMC recently installed an interactive touch screen on the ground floor at Mary Queen of Scots House, Jedburgh, featuring a panoramic guided tour of each of the upstairs’ rooms, an exploration of Border tower houses and
Planning a new open collections store on North Uist
CMC has been working with Comann Eachdraich Uibhist a Tuath (CEUT) to review their storage requirements. Their intention is to develop a new store that will facilitate open storage and increase public access to and use of their collection. Existing shared storage facilities are simply not ideal for public access. Above all they do not allow visitors
Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
CMC are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the contract to deliver the multimedia experience for the new railways museum planned at the RPSI (Railway Preservation Society of Ireland) in Whitehead, Northern Ireland. We have had the pleasure of working with the team at Whitehead on two previous occasions and look forward to
Global – Open Storytelling Platform
We attended the ‘kick-off’ meeting of GOSTEP at the Amsterdam headquarters of Izi-Travel (seen here). All went very well with lots of positive discussion from our Russian, Dutch and Italian partners, however, only the Dutch knew what was going to happen next. This massive party was not in celebration of our new project, instead it seems
GOSTEP – Global Open Storytelling Platform
CMC along with lead partner IZI-TEQ have secured Eurostars funding to enable a two-year long project to develop their Global Open Storytelling Platform. The funds will assist with the creation of high quality story driven tours guides specifically targeted at local communities and the heritage sector. The project will focus on the creation of user-friendly,
Scottish Wildlife Trust – Montrose Basin Visitor Centre
CMC has just been awarded the contract to upgrade and update the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s flagship visitor centre overlooking the internationally important mudflats of the Montrose Basin. The kick-off meeting was this week up at the visitor centre – this is clearly going to be fun as well as a great project. We will be working with
Elgin Cathedral medieval stones interactive
Historic Environment Scotland has opened a new exhibition at Elgin Cathedral displaying a selection of the carved medieval stones uncovered from the ruins in the 1800s by a local shoemaker. CMC Associates has produced an interactive touch screen display that allows users to discover stories and themes as well as a detailed exploration of the
Hawick Museum
In preparation for their new season opening on Sunday CMC serviced the museums multimedia installations. On the first floor three iPads enable visitors to explore the history and wildlife of Wilton Park with a rich collection of images, archive film and nature sounds. In the foyer a large interactive touchscreen offers a virtual tour of
SBG Advisory, Australia
We have just finished building a new website for our partnership, SBG Advisory in Australia: http://sbgadvisory.com.au
The Joy of Digiscoping
On Monday we spent the day with colleagues from the Scottish Wildlife Trust at Montrose Basin (many thanks for the hot coffee!). We were experimenting with video ‘digiscoping’ as a means of adding value to the current displays. Good results were achieved using low cost HD webcams on quite basic telescopes, so it is already