Category Museums

Back to Quinhagak

I’m very happy to share that after a nearly 3 year hiatus I spent last week back in Quinhagak, Alaska working in the culture center on our new project! Last year Charlotta (University of Aberdeen) and I were awarded an AHRC follow-on-funding grant to develop a new ‘digital museum and catalogue’ for the Nunalleq collection. […]

Orkney and the HBC

Throughout the summer of 2021 our 3DVisLab collaborated with the Stromness Museum on a project to design a new digital resource for the museum which would be both online and installed on a touchscreen in the exhibition. Our aim was to explore around 80 objects in their collections relating to Orkney’s history with the Hudson’s […]

The Nunalleq Project in The Conversation UK

Excited to have an article I wrote about my experiences working in Quinhagak published in The Conversation UK! Of late I’ve met a few negative attitudes towards the Nunalleq collection being housed in the village rather than a big city museum, so I wrote this as a personal account to take those people by the […]

Two weeks in Quinhagak — Nunalleq 2019

Alice here, just checking in with an update on the Nunalleq Education Pack now that we’re nearing the official release! I’ve just returned from a very productive 2 weeks in Quinhagak setting up the local school (Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat) with the first installation of the software and doing some user group feedback with the children and […]

Reflections on Celts

“Reflections on Celts is a partnership tour between National Museums Scotland and the British Museum featuring two Iron Age mirrors, which tell very different stories, and help us to understand the relationships between communities in Britain 2,000 years ago.“ – McManus Galleries, Dundee Very excited to share our film “Above the Law: Dundee Law in […]