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

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

Email icon on a mobile phone
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
webinar

How to use emails more effectively — email marketing best practice

Benny's giant head with bobble hat peers from behind a Birmingham landmark at a crowd of people.
Benny's Babbies, 2020 Artist: Cold War Steve (Christopher Spencer). Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0
guide-toolkit

Artificial Intelligence: Digital Heritage Leadership Briefing

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

How a very small museum is using digital to tell its big story

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

Creating online content for fundraising

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

Banishing the backlog with digital volunteers

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

Digital Access and Inclusion — Getting started

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

Looking down at a mobile phone and mug of coffee with a spoon in it
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash.
webinar

How to create video content for your social media channels

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

Working with digitised collections — efficient workflows
Image by Kaleidico on Unsplash.
webinar

Working with digitised collections — efficient workflows

How to expand the functionality of your WordPress website
Photo by Striving Blogger on Unsplash.
webinar

How to expand the functionality of your WordPress website

Two volunteers pour over a manuscript at The Courtauld
Courtesy the author via The Courtauld
case-study

Case study: The Courtauld’s digitisation volunteer project

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.
webinar

Working with digitised collections — the raw material

Hand holding a digital tablet.
Image by Pixabay courtesy of Pexels.
webinar

Broadening your Online Engagement

Opened laptop with digital stats on the screen.
Photo by Path Digital on Unsplash.
webinar

Analytics — how to present your digital stats effectively

video camera with microphone attached with red background
Photo by Kushagra Kevat on Unsplash.
webinar

Webinar: Producing multimedia content on a budget

black and brown typewriter
Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash.
webinar

How to tell your organisation’s story if you don’t have a collection

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

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.