Wellbeing Case Study: 'Museum of the Lost and Found'
'The Museum of the Lost and Found' was a Historic England COVID-19 Recovery Fund project, led by Wessex Archaeology working in partnership with third sector organisations to reach a range of participants through an online heritage engagement approach. This is part of our work to improve wellbeing among those experiencing inequalities.
From late June 2020 Wessex Archaeology ran a collection of eight digital engagement sessions with community groups, NHS staff, young people and individuals across England, giving them behind the scenes access to our archives in Sheffield and Salisbury.
From these sessions each group was given the task of choosing two objects from a selection of four to go into our interactive digital museum. The chosen objects were then 3D scanned and uploaded in a way which presents the viewer with an opportunity to control, rotate, enlarge and closely examine the object allowing for greater access to each one.
In addition to this, participants were set home tasks, to create a personal response which they could then share within their groups.
We also invited the public to vote on their favourite objects, two videos were loaded onto our YouTube site and the public then chose via social media which four objects from a selection of eight they wanted to go into the museum.
Find out more from our Research Magazine article about the 'Lost and Found' project.
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