Keswick selected to join prestigious UK-wide project

Keswick Museum has been selected as one of only ten UK museums to participate in a pilot programme to test how new access tools perform in real-life museum and heritage settings.

The Sensational Museum research project is hoping to develop novel multisensory approaches to museum provision. The £1m project intends to rethink the role of senses in all aspects of museum work, from accession, cataloguing and collections through to curating, exhibitions and the visitor experience, and is particularly interested in developing non-visual ways that museums might be experienced.

The project, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, has spent the past year developing prototypes related to two strands of museum work: Collections and Communication. Keswick Museum will be one of four piloting both strands.

The museum will join a select group of organisations including the Roman Baths and Pump Room, BFI Archive, Bradford District Museums and Galleries and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

To learn more about The Sensational Museum, visit www.sensationalmuseum.org