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Love Tokens from the Collection

Posted by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, Thu, 01/28/2016 - 15:18

TOP FIVE items illustrating Wales’s relationship with love, Santes Dwynwen and St Valentine.

St Dogmaels Culture Beacon Development

Posted by Tom Pert, Thu, 12/10/2015 - 13:14

St Dogmaels community the first in Pembrokeshire to present its heritage using Culture Beacon

BBC RES and People’s Collection Wales collaboration: The Pursuit of API-ness

Posted by Tom Pert, Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:48

In a recent meeting at the Liverpool offices of our website developer, Rippleffect, the PCW Technical group met up with Chiara Delvescovo and Alex Tucker from the BBC to discuss the development of the BBC’s Research and Education Space (RES) platform and how this might compliment the further development of the People’s Collection Wales.

Nefyn the first community to develop Culture Beacon app

Posted by Tom Pert, Tue, 09/09/2014 - 00:00

Volunteers in Nefyn will soon become the first in the country to develop their own app to deliver information on the archaeology and history of the town using cutting-edge iBeacon technology.

iBeacons - further research on location-based knowledge

Posted by CYW, Mon, 05/19/2014 - 16:29

What next for Wales' first iBeacon museum experience?

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales pilots a ‘world first’ iBeacon programme

Posted by CYW, Tue, 04/15/2014 - 16:49

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru) is the first national museum in the world to trial the Culture and Heritage Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology (Apple iBeacon), in partnership with People’s Collection Wales and the Locly (app and platform). The programme is being trialled at one of Amgueddfa Cymru’s sites — the National Slate Museum in Llanberis — and will enable visitors to discover more about the collections on their mobile devices as they walk around the site.