Surprise me – digital heritage lab

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This is a free online resource collection for heritage professionals that brings the collective intelligence of the sector together in one place, by you, for you.

Resources

Band playing on a stage in a church.
St Patrick’s Day Live event, St Joseph’s Church, Belfast. Image courtesy of Sailortown Regeneration©. Photograph by Joe Carberry.
case-study

Bringing music to people with live streaming ― Sailortown Regeneration’s digital story

How a very small museum is using digital to tell its big story
Image courtesy of Richard Jefferies Museum ©
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How a very small museum is using digital to tell its big story

Hands on a braille reader for a computer
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash.
webinar

Accessible websites and delivery — getting started

A smartphone displaying app icons for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
Image by dole777 on Unsplash.
webinar

Webinar: Social media essentials

Working with digitised collections — shaping stories
Image courtesy of Big Pit National Coal Museum © National Museum Wales
webinar

Working with digitised collections — shaping stories

Smart mobile phone with Facebook next to a laptop
Photo by Timothy Hales Bennett on Unsplash.
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How to develop a digital engagement strategy that works for your organisation

Laptop open with a person holding a bank card to input card details for online payment
Image by Negative Space courtesy of Pexels.
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eCommerce: Getting started

Image of a man building inside an boat hull
Image courtesy of Skylark IX Recovery Trust ©
case-study

How digital has helped the delivery of a community project ― Skylark IX’s digital story

Open laptop with user looking at screen.
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash.
webinar

Creating online content for fundraising

The reconstituted cutaway view of the first Rose, by William Dudley, incorporating material by Jon Greenfield and C. Walter Hodges, taken from the guidebook, ‘The Rose, Bankside’s first theatre 1587’.
The reconstituted cutaway view of the first Rose, by William Dudley, incorporating material by Jon Greenfield and C. Walter Hodges, taken from the guidebook, ‘The Rose, Bankside’s first theatre 1587’. Image courtesy of The Rose Theatre Trust.
case-study

How online events had a positive impact on audience engagement and donations for a small heritage organisation

How a local museum used data and insights to develop a focused digital content plan
Image courtesy of Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery ©
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How a local museum used data and insights to develop a focused digital content plan

A man opens a large case in a darkened store room
© Wessex Archaeology
guide-toolkit

A guide to running digital heritage wellbeing projects

Group of people taking part in an activity.
AMA conference 2019 © Marion Botella
webinar

Digital Access and Inclusion — Getting started

black and brown typewriter
Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash.
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How to tell your organisation’s story if you don’t have a collection

video camera with microphone attached with red background
Photo by Kushagra Kevat on Unsplash.
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Webinar: Producing multimedia content on a budget

Covid secure boom pole in action during recording of Podtours podcast
Covid-19 secure boom pole in action during recording of Podtours podcast. Image courtesy of St Mellitus Organ Restoration Project © Photo Charlotte Wilson.
case-study

Using podcasts to engage with new audiences

Computer screen with website stats and graphs.
Photo by Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash.
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Analytics — using data to plan content and engage audiences

A Positive Post-Pandemic: More Engagement, Bigger Audiences, Better Accessibility
A memorial sculpture in Manchester dedicated to those that worked at Bradford Pit ― subject of one of Working Class Movement Library's online talks.
case-study

A Positive Post-Pandemic: More Engagement, Bigger Audiences, Better Accessibility

Banishing the backlog with digital volunteers
Image courtesy of Museum of East Anglian Life ©
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Banishing the backlog with digital volunteers

Smart phone with social media icons
Photo by Rami Al-zayat on Unsplash.
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How to plan a successful social media campaign

Potter working on a pottery wheel.
Image courtesy of Jewish Museum London © Nam Tran, potter in residence, on the pottery wheel during Shaping Ceramics exhibition, 2017.
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Working with digitised collections — the raw material

Using data to inform your fundraising
Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash.
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Using data to inform your fundraising

The Digital Heritage Lab is a project managed by the Arts Marketing Association (AMA) in partnership with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, One Further and the Collections Trust and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative. It is a free programme for small and medium sized heritage organisations seeking to develop their digital capabilities and capacity.