Advanced Digital
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Strathnaver Museum – People of the Clearances
The refurbished Strathnaver Museum covers the sweep of the area’s vibrant heritage. Inevitably, though, the impact of the brutal early 19th-Century Highland Clearances on the local community figures prominently in the displays. What took place was well documented by, among others,…
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Whiteadder: Heart of the Lammermuirs
CMC are working closely with AOC Archaeology on a project focussed on the landscape surrounding the Whiteadder river valley, as it starts in East Lothian and runs down into the Scottish Borders. A series of digs and surveys have taken…
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RPSI Multimedia Installations
Based in Whitehead, Co. Antrim the RPSI is largely a volunteer based organisation founded to restore and preserve steam locomotives and historical rolling stock. In 2015 the RPSI secured substantial funding to create a new visitor centre and CMC was…
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Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
This month CMC have been onsite installing digital hardware for the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, at their new visitor centre in Whitehead near Belfast. This includes iPad interactives, 55″ screens displaying movies and a large interactive touchscreen table. The new hardware is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Irish Heritage Week
Last month during Ireland’s Heritage Week CMC’s digitisation partner, Dublin based Discovery Program was invited to speak at a Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland RSAI event to discuss Irelands rich industrial past. On the agenda was our recent joint project…