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Main image: The SS Great Britain is permanently on display on Bristol's harborside: Credit: Adam GassonIt starts with a whiff of vomit,
These are the smells of a weeks-long voyage, across rolling seas and between continents with a cargo of livestock and a few brave humans who
Holmes, Senior Interpretation Officer
immersion and reality that really helps people to imagine themselves in the historic context
[Smell] is a really strong trigger to memory
was one of the most advanced ships of her time, later becoming the first iron steamship to cross the Atlantic, in a mere 14 days.Designed by
engineer extraordinaire Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was also the largest ship of her kind, an a technological marvel of her time
Brunel repeated such grand feats throughout his life, with other ships such as the SS Great Western, and through other projects such as the
building of the Great Western Railway between London and Bristol.Innovative solutions to problems that had long confounded others
characterized Brunel's work, and it's an approach the SS Great Britain museum has adopted wholesale.Man and engineer: Being BrunelThe
of our directors were walking to work, they thought about the film Being John Malkovich and that it would be amazing to be able to see out
VR is an entirely software-based experience, experienced through headsets and earphones, while AR involves information being superimposed on
physical objects through headsets or displays to add further context
Mixed reality, meanwhile, is what is increasingly being adopted by museums and other educational institutions, and in a particularly bespoke
text and glass display cases, supplemented by soundscapes and sensory experiences
The principle is that the technology is more effective for not obviously being technology.Another example of this is the culmination of a
The visitor in the present might be horrified, but this was a fact of life on board such a vessel, and these small details help to paint a
larger picture and add to it being an experience as much as anything else.The exhibition combines new technology with more conventional
bespoke approach to design and implementation is the Brunel head itself
At two stories, it was a significant undertaking to plan and build; however this is no mere bust of a dead engineer.Visitors to the
which to explore past events and is quite unique in its ambition at the moment
An important part of this is the group element, reacting as one, while it retains a key flavor of its own
achieve.This emphasis on bespoke solutions does present problems, mainly with availability
out how it wishes to proceed
For smaller, and other, museums wishing to ride the tech wave to success, life is becoming easier however.As more and more visitors carry
pocket-rocket smartphones in and out of exhibits, so interaction with technology becomes more ubiquitous, with screens and more becoming
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