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 Mar 08 – Inniskillings Museum - ATS have been awarded the contract to develop the new Service Personnel database of the Inniskillings regiment and Royal Irish Fusiliers. ATS will also be updating the museums Virtual Tour on completion of the current refurbishment to the Museum. For more information please visit the Inniskillings website. |
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Mar 08 – St Wulframs - ATS Heritage are supplying Orpheo audioguides for use in a historic church in Lincolnshire in a project initiated by its parishioners. St Wulfram’s has one of the tallest spires in England and is famed for its Trigge library, the books of which have have been chained for centuries to prevent theft. ATS, on the other hand, trusts its client to produce an authoritative tour and are training the Friends of St Wulfram’s to upload and manage their own content. For more information please visit the St Wulfram’s website. |
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Feb 08 – The Musical Museum - ATS is happy to see such a quirky, sound-based collection come to life with its Orpheo audioguides. At this small, but fascinating London museum, ATS once again demonstrates its support for clients via training in audiotour programming. For more information please visit the Musical Museum website. |
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Feb 08 – Oliver Cromwell's House - Filming with costumed interpreters from Past Pleasures is part of a production for a tour being installed by ATS Heritage in Cromwell’s last home. On completion of watching the film, visitors will take an audio tour around the site.The DVD-based projected images system is automatically triggered. A related audiotour is being completed. For more information please visit the Oliver Cromwell’s House website. |
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Jan 08 – Buckfast Abbey – Over 500,000 people visit the famous community of Benedictine monks at Buckfast which is the subject of a new audiotour introduced by ATS Heritage. The tour will tell the remarkable story of the Brothers’ rebuilding of the monastery.
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Jan 08 - National Trust Dinefwr Park – ATS provided battery-powered Talking Box technology for Dinefwr House and Park, Carmarthenshire. This stand-alone unit is installed outdoors at the Ice House. For more information please visit the National Trust - Dinefwr . |
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Jan 08 – Stockwood Discovery Centre – ATS have been awarded an HLF project to develop multimedia tours for this prestigious site. The tours will include a fabulous collection of carriages donated by George Mossman. These carriages were used for many famous films over the last 50 years. A 'blue plaque' tour of the house and interpreting the word-sculptures of renowned Scots artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, complete this project at Stockwood Park. ATS is developing the new tour using the Orpheo Neo rugged PDA and Orpheo Classic audioguide handsets. Stockwood Discovery Centre website.
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Jan 08 – Dyer and Butler – Production of a 5 minute corporate video of this fast growing company. For more information please go to the Dyer and Butler website. |
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Nov 07 - Harris Museum & Gallery, Preston - ATS has won another gallery to add to its portfolio of work. As part of a gallery refurbishment and redisplay of the Harris’s collection of ceramics, a new ‘people’s’ audioguide is being created. A bit of a new departure, this tour is being created largely with local input from staff and visitors hailing from the town of Preston. For more information please visit the Harris Museum website. |
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Nov 07 – Building Research Establishment - ATS Heritage have been selected to produce an audiotour for the new visitor centre at the Building Research Establishment in Watford to enable visitors to learn more about construction and sustainable building techniques. The BRE Group is a world-leading research, consultancy, training, testing and certification organisation delivering sustainability and innovation across the built environment and beyond. For more information please see the Building Research Establishment website. |
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Oct 07 - Blindart - ATS is pleased to help Blindart with audiotours of their annual show of artworks by sighted artists and those with visual impairments. For more information please see the Blindart website. |
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Sept 07 – Commission for Equal and Human Rights (CEHR) - After a competitive tender engaged ATS to conduct a series of interviews with departing senior staff from the three previously separate agencies which now make up the CEHR. This was an important project exercise in Knowledge Transfer during a crucial period of transition.
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Nov 2007 - Birmingham Museum - ATS Heritage has designed and installed new freestanding audiopoints for the art galleries at Birmingham Museum for the 'Rethinking Disability Representation' project. The project involved creating 8 audio points in the galleries in front of paintings that show a representation of disability. They have been designed to be as accessible as possible for visually impaired, hearing impaired, and wheel chair users. The audio content includes interpretation about the particular artwork with an audio description, a curators' interpretation and a disabled interpreter’s interpretation. For more information please see the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery website. |
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Peak District National Park - Equipment-free Interpretation is the Holy Grail for a lot of sites and ATS’ s Download Centre is helping clients such as Peak District National Park to achieve exactly this. Park visitors will be able to take away digital content such as audiotours as well as printing maps before setting off on one of the Park’s many interpretive trails. For more information please see the Peak District website. |
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Summer 2007 - ATS Heritage uncovers lost Newry Castle - ATS Heritage is helping to reveal the story of Bagenal's Castle, a lost Elizabethan house hidden for centuries in Northern Ireland. The Castle was found together with remains of an earlier monastery, within a former bakery in Newry and is the only surviving castle in Ireland for which the original plans and elevations still exist in the Public Records Office. ATS is using Orpheo audioguides on which to develop audiotours in English and Irish Gaelic. For more information please see the Bagenals Castle website. |
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