On Dartmoor nobody can hear you Google

Rick Lawrence, digital media officer

at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter

Welcome to the moor

The big idea

Location + collections + communities + your experience and imagination = stories

How we did it - Stage 1

• Third application funded by HEIF• Two websites in three months• Moor Stories and Church Detective

The big challenge

• Dude, where’s my signal?

• Easy solution or tackle the challenge?

How we did it - Stage 2

• Second phase funded by REACT• Twelve months• Just Moor Stories• More Resources gave access to designer

Mike Godwin, expert advice from Calvium, museum learning specialist Julian Vayne, support from REACT

Who we worked with• University of Exeter

English Department

• Local History Groups

• Local schools

• Dartmoor National Park Authority

What we delivered

• Full fat website bad idea with limited signal • Web-app chosen solution for on the Moor• Support and advice built in• Impact and future plan included in funded work• Coming soon – technical refinements, more content,

and DNPA Moor than Meets the Eye

Top tips for going way outside the museum

• Working with partners gives new insights and challenges assumptions

• Accept situation on the ground and develop for it

• Test and involve users• Plan for the future…

Find out Moor…

• Moor Stories http://moorstories.org.uk/

• Web-app http://m.moorstories.org.uk/

• Moor Stories Blog https://moorstories.wordpress.com/

• Church Detective http://www.churchdetective.org.uk/

• RAMM Collections – with even more Dartmoor objects! http://rammcollections.org.uk/