Media content created for Museums without Walls ... : An interactive resource exploring connections between Orkney and the Hudson's Bay Company ...

• Main Authors: Watterson, Alice, Anderson, John, Bechara, Rany, Park, Janette, Cooke-Miller, Siobahn, Firth, Katy, Sinclair, Norna, Marr, Rebecca, Zawadski, Krista Ulujuk, Loovers, Jan Peter Laurens, Bos, Lise
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Dundee 2023
• Subjects: FOS History and archaeology; Canada; Dundee; Stromness; inuit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15132/10000188; https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/datasets/media-content-created-for-museums-without-walls-an-interactive-re

During the summer of 2021 the Stromness Museum together with the University of Dundee launched a pilot project to explore around 80 objects in their collections relating to Orkney’s history with the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada. Our aim was to design an interactive online resource which brought together 3D scans and photographs of the museum’s collections together with insights and stories from different perspectives, including Orcadian, Cree, Métis and Inuit voices. What resulted was a compelling and diverse variety of material offering fresh insights and contemporary connections to this complex period of shared history. The resource is freely available online and as a touchscreen exhibit inside the Stromness Museum in Orkney. Data and file overview The archived material consists of 3D scanned objects from the Museum’s collections in .glb format; photographs of objects and family photographs relating to personal accounts featured in the resource; soundbites from various people interviewed for the resource ...