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July 07 - Hever Castle
ATS’ latest audiotour to be launched is of Hever Castle, an outstanding historic house and grounds. The family home of Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves, this magnificent building is the setting for learning about Tudor history, manners, taste and modern romanticism. Formerly owned and renovated by the fabulously wealthy Astors, Hever is host to one of the most sublime English gardens.
Listen to a Talking Postcard of our work at Hever Castle.
July 07 - Clydebank Museum
ATS Heritage announces yet another win with a contract to supply Orpheo audioguides to Clydebank Museum. This local museum, which stands close by the Clyde shipyards, reflects Glasgow's domination of the greatest era of shipbuilding. A lively exhibition programme draws on social and industrial history as well as telling the story of the infamous Clydebank Blitz. Staff from West Dunbartonshire's Cultural Services Department will be trained in using Orpheo software to create and manage their own audio content. Clydebank Museum website
July 07 - Helping others at the Dementia Services Development Centre
Also in Scotland, ATS is proud to been engaged to help Stirling University's Dementia Centre guide visitors around their display rooms. Orpheo audioguides will inform visiting medical staff and carers about the latest assistive technologies and products available for improving daily life for those with all types of dementia. The Orpheo's accessible design complements this service as well as the Centre's own building which is a notable example of dementia-friendly-design. For more information please see the Stirling University's Dementia Centre website
July 07 - Lowry Podcast - Happening news
ATS is developing a ground-breaking downloadable tour of its Lowry artworks for Sunderland Museum & Gallery. While the appeal of LS Lowry’s work has endured, this tour will helps the Museum explore new avenues in its aim of widening access to its collections.
July 07 - Orpheo handset first choice for Oxford City Museum and Town Hall
Once again ATS Heritage is at the forefront of heritage interpretation providing tours of Oxford’s historic Town Hall and City Museum. Orpheo-based audiotours will enhance visitor provision with tours for non-English-speaking visitors, and families. First tour is due to be on-line later this summer.
June 07 - Picasso’s Ceramics
ATS Heritage has completed a new tour to accompany the Picasso Ceramics exhibition at Leicester’s New Walk Museum & Gallery. This important show is based on a gift of his private collection by Richard Attenborough to the City of Leicester. Lord Attenborough, recorded by ATS Heritage, introduces the tour on the Orpheo audioguide. A long-anticipated show, it has so far attracted tremendous media attention, notably from the Sunday Times and Channel 4. The Show officially launched 16 June 2007.
June 07 - HMS Victory
Portsmouth. Currently our film crew is will be producing a 30 minute tour of HMS Victory, a long-standing ATS client, for a new AV presentation on board this historic vessel. For more information visit the Victory website.
May 07 - St Martin’s-in-the Field
ATS has been selected to produce new audio and audio-visual interpretation for this world-famous church. Its focus is on enhancing access while exploring the Church’s many and varied roles as well as its historical, architectural and musical legacy.
May 07 - Calling Up the Cider Makers
ATS recently helped yet another small museum to present its oral history archives. Using period telephones, visitors at Hereford’s Cider Museum are now able to dial up and listen to the experiences of those generations of craftsmen who have produced our other national drink. ATS enabled project staff ‘to refresh parts other interpreters cannot reach’ by providing an updateable facility for drawing upon all audio clips in their archive.
May 07 - National Trust
Hatchlands House and Cobbe Collection - ATS Heritage is to interpret a historically important collection of keyboard instruments housed at the National Trust’s Hatchlands House. Rarely ever played because of their extreme fragility, harpsichords, pianofortes and other keyboards owned and played by luminaries Hayden, King Charles II and Marie-Antoinette and many others are being recorded for the new audiotour.
April 07 - Improving Access for the Mary Rose Museum
This summer, ATS Heritage reinforces its ties with long-standing client, the Mary Rose Trust with the introduction of new multimedia interpretation via its new Orpheo Neo. The Neo is ATS’ latest PDA-style handset and will guide hearing impaired visitors around the museum.
March 07 HMS Victory
HMS Victory is adding more 'Talking Boxes to supply audio to the ship now that it will be 'freeflowing' visitors around the site.
March 2007 - Rochester Castle Rochester Castle has been added to ATS' stable of historic properties. Owned by Medway Council and under the guardianship of the English Heritage, this magnificent castle is one of the best preserved and finest examples of Norman architecture in England. Visit the Rochester Castle web page for more visitor information. Visit the Rochester Castle web page for more visitor information.
February 2007 - Paisley Abbey
Renfrewshire Council and Paisley Abbey have awarded ATS the audiotour contract for this impressive gothic church. The Orpheo audioguide will be a platform for an interactive audiotour for schools. Visit Paisley Abbey's website for more information.
February 2007 - Leceister Museums
ATS has won another two sites in Leicester. The New Walk Museum and the outstandingly spooky Guildhall will be interpreted by our team using the Orpheo audioguide. Content for this project will be developed by both ATS Heritage and the Leicester City Team themselves using the Orpheo Manager software.
Visit the Leicester Museums website for more information.
February 2007 - St Columba's Experience
Visit the Largs Columba Experience for more information.
January 2007 - Kate Roberts Heritage Centre We are delighted to be working with CC4, cutting-edge content developers at the Kate Roberts Heritage Centre, Cae'r Gors. These masters of multimedia are putting together an unprecedented exhibition and AV presentation of Roberts, a writer whose literary achievements in Welsh language are finally being recognised.
www.cc4web.tv
December 2006 - Belfast folk ‘tap into’ New Media!
December 2006 - Dartmouth Museum has awarded ATS Heritage a contract to supply Orpheo audioguides. This tiny, yet unusually interesting museum is housed in a seventeenth century merchants’ house. The project forms part of the recent HLF-funded refurbishment of this local museum and is the latest of ATS’ many naval heritage customers. The Museum benefits from complete control through the Orpheo Content Management Software enabling them to phase in new tours in the future.
Dartmouth Museum Website
December 2006 - Buildstore
In a new departure, ATS has secured a major contract with the National Self-Build and Renovation Centres. We are devising audiotours of self-build house exhibitions at Livingston and Swindon which launch in February 2007. This innovative work will see Talking Hard Hats offered to visitors with a celebrity narrator to guide potential buyers through the process of building their own homes. This is a major undertaking and ATS took up the challenge to design an attractive, entertaining yet essential communication tool for these new Centres. See the Buildstore Website for more information.
November 2006 - National Maritime Museum ATS Heritage have been working on an English and Visually Impaired audio tour for the National Maritime Museum. Based in Greenwich, London, the tour presents interpretation of the new permanent gallery, entitled 'Art for the nation', which will open in the Grade-I listed Queen's House (designed by Inigo Jones) on November 16th 2006. Click below to find out more about the National Maritime Museum.
October 2006 - Farnham Castle
ATS Heritage been awarded the contract to provide an audio tour of this prestigious castle which will be initially offered in English and for visually impaired visitors. Click the link to visit the Farnham Castle Website.
October 2006 - Down County Museum A new audio tour, developed by ATS Heritage, opened recently at the Down County Museum on 23rd October. Offered in English, Irish, French, German and Spanish, the audio tour takes visitors around the new exhibitions and the old gaol site. To find out more information on the tour follow the link to Down County Website news pages.
October 2006 - Teme Valley Project The Go West Teme Valley project have recently launched a prototype of 6 kiosk stands (shown right) in St Leonard's Church. The stand provides audio, interpreting the 'Stories from the Stones' programme. The kiosks will help six ancient churches speak and tell their story whilst relating it to the rich history of the surrounding area.
October 2006 - Portsmouth Dockyard ATS Heritage have been commissioned to update the Apprentice Exhibition at Portsmouth Dockyard. All of the old material is being utilised on plasma and touch screen equipment in several languages. Visit the Dockyard Apprentice Exhibition to discover the skills and crafts used to build mighty battleships. For more infomation click the link below to navigate to the Portsmouth Dockyard Website
September 2006 - Pitheid Patter hits the BBC News Site
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News of the Barony A Frame restoration project has reached the BBC News Website, where interviews and video clips have been posted. Click the links above to view them.
August 2006 - Bovington Tank Museum adds an oral history telephone to their collections with this new feature becoming available in September. Click the link to find out more about Bovington Tank Museum.
August 2006 - Northampton Museum We have recently completed recordings of 15 creative writers (shown left) to be provided on our orpheo audioguides for an exhibition beginning at the end of September.
August 2006 - Blickling Hall
ATS Heritage have now installed a new 'Sitooteria' dome at Blickling Hall. Solar powered, users are encouraged to sit inside the dome touching leaves to hear audio. Visit the National Trust pages on Blickling Hall.
August 2006 - National Coal Mining MuseumATS Heritage has completed the "Witness: Disaster, Rescue and Recovery" project (shown right), providing audio for telephones and projection systems - The project opened on July 17th
2006 - Chester Zoo Rhino Donation Box
Rhino sounds can be found echoeing out of the Rhino Collection Box when members of the public put money in. ATS Heritage installed this system in June and it has been a 'roar'.
2006 - Harewood Househas installed our new Orpheo Audio Guides for state rooms and below stairs free of charge to all visitors to the house. You can also take the tour on an Ipod or MP3 player. To learn more see the press release or visit the Harewood website. Portrait Tour - Coming soon.
2006 - Barony A Frame
ATS Heritage are progressing well with this prestigious project and oral histories from many ex-miners have been recorded. For more information please visit the website: www.pitheid-patter.co.uk
2006 - Upnor CastleATS Heritage have been awarded a contract to provide Audioguides and downloadable audio in English, French and Dutch. The new tour should be launched by the end of the year.
2006
ATS Heritage will be supplying audio guides to Snibston Discovery Park. Click on the link below to find out more information on Snibston Discovery Park based in Leicestershire.
2006ATS Heritage have been awarded the contract to begin supplying the first phase of audio guides to Thames Valley University; the audio guides will be used across their four library sites.
January - Go West Teme Valley Project, have invited ATS Heritage to work on the 'Stories from the Stones' pilot project, providing interpretation for churches in the Teme Valley
November - Hampstead Museum. ATS Heritage have completed their work with the Museum and the opening night on the 17th November was a great success. For more information click here.
October - Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. ATS Heritage Audioguides used on World Sight Day at Ulster Folk and Transport Museum . For more information click here
October - Stained Glass Museum. Official opening of the new audio tour.
September - Shaftesbury Abbey. Official opening of the new audio tour
September - Museum of the Isles. ATS heritage have begun work to supply Orpheo Audioguides and an Audio tour for the Museum, which is on the Isle of Skye.
September - Inniskillings Regimental Museum. The official opening of Inniskillings Museum Virtual Tour, attended by Aisling Irving, Jack Dunlop and television presenter Paul Clarke. Click for more information
August - Balmoral Castle ATS Heritage have completed their audio tour, which is also due to have more languages added next year.
August - Museum of the History of Science ATS Heritage have completed their audio tour at the Museum, which is based at Oxford University.
July - Dulverton and District Civic Society The Dulverton and District Civic Society have unveiled their Oral History Telephones, supplied by ATS Heritage.
Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset
ATS Heritage have recently won the contract to provide the audio equipment for the tours at Shaftesbury Abbey. Portsmouth City Council Sound Sculpture
ATS Heritage provided the sound system for local sculptress Kate Viners 'sound' sculpture.
National Archives
In November, ATS Heritage continued their existing realtionship with the National Archives by providing research, development and production of the audio-visual work for their 'Movers and Shakers' exhibition.
Scotland’s First Audio Village Tour
Scotland’s first village audio tour is currently being developed in the village of Muirkirk in East Ayrshire.
Audio Guides at Dalí Universe Dalà Universe on London's South Bank introduces multilingual audio guides reaching our key foreign visitors.
Local Company wins major contract for Mary Rose Ship Hall
ATS Heritage, a local Museums and Heritage Design Company based in Clanfield, has been awarded a major contract to provide Audio Guides.
Eyam tells a tale
Launch of Eyam 'Talking Guide' Tuesday 20th April at Eyam Hall 11.30am. A new and innovative approach to discovering the rich story of Eyam, the Peak District Plague village is about to be launched.
The National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield We are pleased to announce the new exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield. 'Strike, Not the End of the Story' looks not just at the 1984/5 strikes.
