The British Museum want to hear from organisations or individuals who can design and deliver innovative and experimental digital learning sessions that engage visitors with the British Museum’s collections. 

The museum’s Samsung Digital Discovery Centre delivers a programme of digital learning for schools, family and teen audiences – and are seeking new sessions to be developed and delivered by external partners. These sessions will be included in the monthly one-off ‘Innovation Lab’ programme.

Pitch a session
Session proposals should be experimental or scratch-like, and should test out new ideas or technologies, or ways of working with family audiences. British Museum do not expect new software to be developed as part of these sessions, but the Innovation Lab will be a great forum to test out new software or new uses of software with a family audience in a digital learning environment.

“We want our audiences to be excited about using new technologies, engaged with our collections, and experiencing new things. We are also interested in sessions that do not replicate what we already provide in the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre.”

If you would like to pitch an idea, send your idea using the following headings:

1. Title: (or working title)
2. Session description: (One paragraph description of your activity. Please include learning outcomes, and any outputs created by visitors.)
3. Session times: (We deliver drop-in sessions on Saturdays (11-4pm), and workshop sessions on Sundays (11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm). Will your activity be a drop-in or a workshop session? Please feel free to suggest alternative times within the 11am-4pm timeframe if it is more appropriate for you.)
4. Target audience and age range: (Is this an activity for families or teens?)
5. Brief session plan: (Please detail a brief session plan.)
6. Collection: (How does your idea your engage your target audience with the British Museum’s collection? If appropriate, please give examples of objects you will use or reference.)
7. Technology and resources: (Please include what hardware from the SDDC you will use (see notes below), what additional resources you will need, and if you will be bringing in or require the hire of any additional equipment that is not available in the SDDC.)
8. Budget: (We expect submissions of between £350-£1,000. Please detail how this money will be spent on development time, delivery time, resources and other expenses. We would expect one day of delivery to be included in this cost.)
9. You: (Tell us a bit about you or your company, including why are you qualified to develop and lead this activity, or what skills do you hope to develop by doing this project.)

Notes on technology available in the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre

• 75” eboard with touch screen overlay
• 46” LCD TV and 55” LED TV
• 25 High spec laptops with internet access, Adobe CS5 Pro production suite, Blender,
• Audacity and standard Microsoft Office software
• 55 Galaxy Note 10.1” android tablets with stylus
• 40 Galaxy Note II and Note III smartphones
• 25 digital cameras, 40 Galaxy cameras and 6 digital SLR cameras with standard and wide angle lenses (Samsung NX1 and NX100)
• Kinect system
• 6 HD digital camcorders with microphone jack
• 6 digital USB microscopes
• 3 scanners
• 1 Samsung SUR40 multi-touch table
• Green screen

Please send your completed pitch to Lizzie Edwards and Juno Rae by 12 noon, Monday 13 April 2015.