Projects and websites:
Culture24 website
Culture24 (www.culture24.org.uk) is one of the leading culture portals in the UK. The new website replaced the 24 Hour Museum in February 2009. The new name and radical new design were informed by nearly ten years of successful online publishing and responded to developments in technology, visitor expectations and the desire to better reflect the cultural landscape represented by the sector.
The site is Culture24’s flagship project, within which we deliver a range of editorial initiatives, campaigns and data sharing partnerships.
Resource discovery for teachers
The Culture24/Teachers' section is an online service for teachers that sits within the new Culture24 site and was built with development funding from DCSF and MLA London. Culture24/Teachers connects teachers with the best of online and real life educational resources offered by museum, galleries, libraries, archives, heritage sites and science centres, including: digital collections, film and videoconferencing, interactives, games and downloadable material.
www.culture24.org.uk/teachers
Show Me
Our award-winning kids’ website, Show Me, went live in 2004 thanks to funding from Clore Duffield and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Show Me provides a fun, free and safe way for primary aged children to
have access to museum content including games and school project help.Plans are currently in preparation for it to be rebuilt following the launch of Caboodle.
www.show.me.uk
Caboodle Club Network
Caboodle is Culture24's latest and innovative way to engage 8-13 year olds with collections. The Caboodle website is a fun, free and safe place for children and museums to upload and share photos of their collections. It is all about play - with objects, exhibitions and creativity at its heart. Caboodle is an ongoing project originally supported by the Children Young People and Families (CYPF) fund.
www.caboodle.org.uk
Technical services
Our publishing platform is used to support the development of strategic websites that share the same fundamental data sets. Often this also involves our editorial support through a mixture of consultancy, editorial commissions and content planning.
Engaging Places website (www.engaginplaces.org.uk)
Publishing services
Infrastructure and editorial support for national programmes and campaigns ranging from individual articles published on our websites, through to entire sections of commissioned themed content.
Icons - A Portrait of England
The ICONS website was commissioned by Culture Online and built by CogApp in 2006. The DCMS handed the site to Culture24 in April 2007 to look after and develop. Since then we have completed over 20 new ICONS and built up new content partnerships to bring in new audiences. www.icons.org.uk
Strategic work and partnerships
Museums at Night
Museums and galleries across the UK are signing up to be part of ‘Museums at Night’ during the third weekend in May 2011 (13th – 15th). Museums will be opening late and many will be staging special events; from tours, screenings and debates, to music, dancing and ghost hunts. Some are even staying open all night for sleepovers.
Museums at Night is organised by Culture24 and is supported by MLA and Arts Council England. We also link up with the European-wide campaign (La Nuit de Musées) which takes place on Saturday 14th May 2011. Since its inception in France during 2005 the event has grown quickly. www.museumsatnight.org.uk
Culturemondo
Culturemondo is a network of people who are all working running, managing, building or editing cultural portals around the world. It is open and free to anyone working in this area to join, wherever they are from.
Culturemondo meet each year in different countries to discuss trends, share best practice and plan for the future. The network was set up in 2005 and since then Culture24 have played a leading role. We currently hold the secretariat and Director Jane Finnis is the Chairman. Find out more at www.culturemondo.org
Culturemondo International Roundtable 2008 in Taiwan
CultureLabel
CultureLabel are developing an exciting new culture retail store at CultureLabel.com. It seeks to align the best of global arts and culture with the lifestyles of today’s borderless consumers. Culture24 are in partnership with CultureLabel to provide a retail function for our website and culture partners, with plans for further collaboration in the pipeline.
Kids in Museums
Culture24 support the Kids in Museums campaign and have signed up to their new Manifesto. Anra Kennedy, our Head of Programmes, is also one of the founding trustees.
www.kidsinmuseums.org.uk/our-manifesto
Jodi Awards
The Jodi Awards are for museums, galleries, libraries, archives and heritage venues which use technology to provide access to collections and learning for disabled people, such as websites, interactive objects, audio-guides, PDAs and virtual reality shows. Culture24 has been a key supporter of these awards since their inception.
