Category Archives: Museum

Making “Tickets Please”

Today we completed making “Tickets Please” It is an Arduino and RFID powered oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration of the Edge Hill Archive. The “Signal Repeater” electronic hub was made by Mycroft Milverton, the game board was more »

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Reflection on the Waterfront

The Reflection on the Waterfront Festival kicked off with style! This festival celebrates the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Liver Building and the opening of the New Museum of Liverpool. We were treated to late night opening of more »

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Light Night

We had an enormously pleasurable Light Night. We met up with friends at a vintage fair, visited the Walker Art Gallery and then St George’s Hall. We ended up at the ADA where they had loads going on! While there more »

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Spring on the Waterfront

The Spring Waterfront festival started today with street theatre, dockwatch, tall ships, steam tugs, canal boats and sea shanties. Jolly good fun. I bumped into Photonutter while I was there, he was kind enough to take a few pictures of more »

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More Quackers

Another successful day volunteering in the museum today. My main activity today was making Rocking Ducks out of paper plates, however I also made some cartoon duck cutouts, duck masks and DNA. There were some children there too… they kept more »

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Duck Tails

Today I did my first day volunteering at the Liverpool World Museum. “Go Quackers” currently has 40,000 rubber ducks and are promoting Claire House’s Duck Race in July. Today’s project was get children involved in drawing ducks and “Identity hands” more »

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