Transforming the quantity and quality of interpretation content available at key sites.
Delivery Lead Organisation: BFER delivery team
Four InfoPoint units have been installed across the BFER project area, generating their own, local ‘off grid’ web that users can connect to via its Wi-Fi network in areas with poor signal and connectivity. These new units provide digital interpretation in remote areas that have limited access to wider signal or internet. They offer a wealth of brand new information for visitors to experience, including images, audio recordings, videos and downloadable resources. All without having to use your data or download an app!
The BFER supported InfoPoint units are located at:
Initial locations for the Heritage Hotspots.
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More Information on each site:
Ancient House Museum
InfoPoint offers visitors a brand new digital experience, through exciting new content that enhances how visitors interreact with exhibitions and displays. It offers the opportunity to tap into audio and video content, additional resources, and guided tours.
In the long term, the facility will allow the museum to update content without the expense of going back to exhibition design suppliers. This offers museum staff the flexibility to update content for new exhibitions, and to offer opportunities for community and schools groups to create content such as themed tours, or blogs.
British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford
The BTO’s Nunnery Lakes Reserve is a County Wildlife Site which lies to the south of Thetford between the Rivers Thet and Little Ouse. It follows a series of lakes created by old gravel workings, and contains a rich variety of Breckland habitats within a relatively small area. The Nunnery Lakes Reserve comprises lakes, rivers, woodland, grassland and meadows. You can find many wildlife species, including Kingfisher, Barn Owl, Oystercatcher, Water Vole, Otter and dragonflies.
InfoPoint is enabling the BTO to provide site visitors with information about the reserve, the work being undertaken at the site, as well as spotter’s guide information about the wildlife present on the site and observable from its viewpoints.
Lakenheath Fen RSPB reserve
InfoPoint has been installed at the RSPB Lakenheath Fen Joist Fen viewpoint. This is situated 2.5 km away from the site’s Visitor Centre, and as a result was previously a remote location cut off from any digital access. The new InfoPoint unit allows the site to provide digital interpretation content to this remote reach of the reserve, allowing visitors to access information about the site, the work being undertaken, and the wildlife present and observable from the viewpoint.
RSPB Lakenheath Fen plan to connect the unit with a live nest-cam feed from a nearby Barn owls nest, allowing visitors to experience an up close insight into the lives of these charismatic birds without disturbing them. The nest-cam will enable visitors to see recorded highlights, allowing them to see the barn owls at times of day other then dawn and dusk, when they are most active.
Additional plans include using multiple linked units to enable remote coverage of the crane breeding territories with additional points to be fed back to visitor centre, with the potential of creating live video feeds of the cranes for visitors to enjoy.
West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village
The Anglo-Saxon Village struggles to provide on-site interpretation due to its visual intrusiveness to the heritage settlement.
This project has enabled a more coherent connection between the museum collections and the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village (200m apart). The unit provides new content including archaeological maps and key finds locations, images of living history, self-led tours and audios of previous archaeologists. Additional information helps put the site in context with the larger landscape using the latest archaeological evidence. It also allows visitors to view images from the site’s collections, helping to contextualise the 10,000 years of history. Fun activities for younger audiences include quizzes and tips, as well as audio clips of old English words and phrases.
To transform the quantity and quality of interpretation content available at key sites in the project area.
Providing digital interpretation access at remote sites in the BFER project area using stand-alone Wi-Fi transmitters.
To enable Digital content to be accessed at BFER engagement events, greatly increasing the resources available to participants and helping to raise awareness of the scheme and wider opportunities for involvement.
The project will transform the quantity and quality of interpretation content available at key sites and will be promoted to other scheme partners and heritage providers in the project area through launch events and information sharing opportunities.
This project will provide (at least 5) digital (InfoPoint) visitor interpretation points for remote heritage sites in the projects area. Visitors will be able to connect to these points with smart phones or tablets as if they were browsing the public web, and access or download interpretation content.
The new interpretation provision will include a wide variety of heritage interpretation information including videos, oral histories and audio tours as well as quizzes, games, images and schools’ packs, much of which has previously only been available on a limited basis, or off-site on the internet.
If you’d like to get involved in this project contact us for more information: bfer.admin@suffolk.gov.uk
