Hi all, 

I’m reaching out for some networking and discussions / recommendations on the use of interactive digital heritage content (Interactive desktop / XR) online, and in museums and education. I work for a charity (UK Antarctic Heritage Trust) and we’re making immersive, interactive 3D digital content about our Antarctic sites with storytelling from our archives. We want to make these sites and their stories accessible to a global audience.  Its part of a KTP project so we are a very small team on a time limit.

I’m trying to gauge how challenging it would be to get something like this to appeal to the education sector as a curriculum resource and any opportunities for collab work or partnerships with the GLAM sector.  If there are any education sector or museum representatives interested in talking or who have experience in these matters with or insights into early stage XR project development issues e.g., audience uptake, distribution costs / potential revenue opportunities , funding opportunities etc I’d love to have a chat!   

That’s the quick summary, there is some more info below about our sites and goals for this small project with big ambitions.

Through immersive storytelling, we seek to educate and inspire people about aspects of the history of our sites such as:

•	Lived experiences of the Antarctic scientists and explorers, 
•	Antarctic science (particularly climate science) and land surveying, 
•	Antarctic built heritage, 
•	built heritage conservation, 
•	wildlife conservation (especially the penguins at Port Lockroy), 
•	human impact on the Antarctic environment, 
•	Antarctic tourism (our visitor numbers are limited to quota for protection of the sites and due to the active penguin rookery) etc.  

The UKAHT is the conservation and heritage preservation charity adjacent to the British Antarctic Survey. The BAS survey team has undertaken data collection at some of our heritage sites and our project focusses on two key bases, Base A: Port Lockroy, (open to limited numbers of cruise visitors during non-covid times) which has a registered museum, the world’s most southernly Post Office shop, and a penguin rookery, and the now inactive Stonington Island science base, Base E and the adjacent American East Base, which we collaborate on the conservation of with the US. 

As said, I’d love to hear from anyone with experience of this kind of digital project or to swap tales, both woes and wins, with people doing similar work so do feel free to contact me here or at [log in to unmask] 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-johnston?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BVv8WbGwqRdSHxCaqZ%2FpOJA%3D%3D

Many thanks. 

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