Virtual Reality Headset © www.pcmag.com It's been another interesting week here at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. The Technical Development Manager - Zak Mensah - organised a Virtual Reality demonstration ... cue equal measures of envy and indifference ... I went and found it really interesting!
Yes, I concede that you do look like a complete idiot when you have the headset on ... but when you start to move about the virtual environment you forget about the headset!! Your attention is solely on admiring your new environment! There are endless possibilities for the use of this technology both now and in the future especially within museums and archaeology.
Yes, I concede that you do look like a complete idiot when you have the headset on ... but when you start to move about the virtual environment you forget about the headset!! Your attention is solely on admiring your new environment! There are endless possibilities for the use of this technology both now and in the future especially within museums and archaeology.
St. Anne's Well © www.brislingtonarchaeology.org.uk On Wednesday afternoon Kate and I headed to Brislington for a Finds Session with Kurt the Finds Liason Officer and Brislington Community Archaeology Project (BCAP). I really enjoyed meeting BCAP, they run alot of events around Brislington which has an interesting medieval history and a royal connection....
There is a shrine (St. Anne's Well) in St. Anne's Woods which apparently Henry VII visited not long after he won the Wars of the Roses and became King!
So back to the Finds Session ... there were a good number of visitors all interested in finding out more about objects they had found in their gardens or during walks in the woods. BCAP have started to track where the different types of objects have been found to help build up a picture of the archaeology of Brislington.
There is a shrine (St. Anne's Well) in St. Anne's Woods which apparently Henry VII visited not long after he won the Wars of the Roses and became King!
So back to the Finds Session ... there were a good number of visitors all interested in finding out more about objects they had found in their gardens or during walks in the woods. BCAP have started to track where the different types of objects have been found to help build up a picture of the archaeology of Brislington.
Newport Museum and Art Gallery © www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings At the end of the week I went to a Society of Museum Archaeologists Training Day. I learnt about Tackling Bulk Archaeology: Animal Bone at Newport Museum & Art Gallery.
I learnt alot about animal bones and collections. My favourite part of the day was working in teams to correctly set out the skeleton of a sheep or goat - thankfully no one was squeamish! - and we got the bones set out correctly, eventually.
I learnt alot about animal bones and collections. My favourite part of the day was working in teams to correctly set out the skeleton of a sheep or goat - thankfully no one was squeamish! - and we got the bones set out correctly, eventually.
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