Digital Archive for Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain 2016-2021
Anwen Cooper, Duncan Garrow, Catriona Gibson, Melanie Giles, Neil Wilkin, 2020. (updated 2024) https://doi.org/10.5284/1052206. How to cite using this DOI
- Introduction
- Overview
- Project Database:
- Schools Resources
- British Museum Trail
- Metadata
- Usage Statistics
Data copyright © Duncan Garrow unless otherwise stated
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 3438
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1052206
- How to cite using this DOI
British Museum Trail
This section contains documents relating to the 'Death, memory and meaning' grave goods trail, which ran within the later prehistoric Europe galleries (Rooms 50 and 51) of the British Museum from May 2019 to March 2020. More information about the trail can be found on the Death, memory and meaning trail website which is now archived at the National Archives.
Metadata
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Resources
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Title: British Museum trail Description: This document contains all of the case labels which were added to cases in Rooms 50 and 51 at the British Museum, forming the 'Death, memory and meaning' trail in 2020. | 489 Kb | |
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Title: British Museum grave goods trail - pre-trail evaluation report Description: This report provides the methodology and results of a preliminary audience research plan designed to assess how visitors interact with grave goods objects in different galleries and to inform the development of a grave goods trail. This report presents the results of audience research undertaken between the 6th of August 2018 until the 5th of September 2018 in British Museum galleries 50-51; galleries 63-64; gallery 24. Visitors' behaviour and responses to the exhibition were investigated through a combination of tracking and post-visit interviews. The research was commissioned by the AHRC-funded Grave Goods project. | 1 Mb | |
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Title: British Museum grave goods trail - summative evaluation report Description: This summative evaluation plan was designed to assess the impact of the newly installed 'Death Memory Meaning' (DMM) labels on the interaction of visitors with grave goods in galleries 50 and 51 of the British Museum. This report is complementary to the preliminary audience research report from 2018. Research was undertaken between the 21st of June 2019 until the 1st of August 2019. Visitors' responses to the exhibition were investigated through a combination of 50 tracking, ethnographic observations and 15 semi-structured interviews. The research was commissioned by the AHRC-funded Grave Goods project. | 554 Kb |
