Fortunes
For iPhone users, download a free app and explore Bristol city
centre from a totally new angle. Available as a free download
from Apple's app store, 'Fortunes' takes you from M Shed around the
centre of the city making your way in life in the Bristol of the
1870s. Based upon a map in the collections of the Bristol
Record Office the app uses elements of treasure hunt and street
games to take you along the harbourside and through the streets
around the city centre. Dodging muggers, constables and the
temptations of a bustling port, the aim of the game is to find the
jobs, partner and connections you need to increase your social
status and respectability, ultimately becoming mayor of
Bristol!
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives has worked with Calvium and Watershed as part of a research collaboration
funded by the Technology Strategy Board, to commission
Bristol-based games developer SlingShot to produce this iphone app. An
android version will be able soon.
Download the Fortunes app
A Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol
By visiting www.atimetravellersguide.com (or downloading
the free iPhone app) you can explore several locations around
Bristol and witness how they have changed over time. A
combination of digitised archive film footage, photographs, audio
and imaginative 3D reconstructions bring these places vividly to
life.
The guide has been produced by The World of Arthur Cox in
collaboration with Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives and
the University of Bristol and the BBC. You can upload your
own memories and images to help build the site further.
M Shed galleries
In M Shed you will find information about Bristol and Bristol
people provided through a variety of digital media. Film,
photos, the spoken word and music are all used around the gallery
displays. In addition you can find more on the computer
kiosks which are scattered throughout and which provide more
information on the themes and stories explored in the
displays. This information is also reproduced here on the M
Shed website. As with the Time Traveller's Guideyou can
upload your own memories, photographs and film.