The Best in Heritage: Museums and the Web Awards 2021

The Best in Heritage: Museums and the Web Awards 2021

Resource type

Video

Date published

2021

Abstract

Stefania Zardini Lacedelli, Annie Jamieson & John Stack talk to The Best in Heritage's Ciprian Melian about the #SonicFriday project by National Science and Media Museum & University of Leicester. It won the Museweb GLAMi Award 2021 in the category Pandemic Pivot. Inspired by its world-leading collection of Sound Technologies, in 2020 the National Science and Media Museum (Bradford, UK) invited online audiences to share memories and stories around sound culture: from cassettes, CDs and mp3s to digital sampling and lockdown sounds. More than 250 digital memories were collected across different platforms and gave birth to YouTube playlists, multimedia galleries and sound maps. The #SonicFriday project, designed in collaboration with the University of Leicester, enriched the stories around museum objects and strengthened their relationship with people’s lives, thus highlighting the value of personal memories for heritage institutions.

Material/media

video

Duration

17 minutes 45 seconds

Creator (organisation)

Science Museum Group

Contributor (person)

Lacedelli, Stefania Zardini

Jamieson, Annie

Stack, John