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Streets of Bournemouth
About the ProjectStreets of Bournemouth "virtual museum". The first ever interactive online museum devoted to the history of Bournemouth has been endorsed by travel writer and former resident, Bill Bryson. The virtual museum will capture the story of Bournemouth's development in a project that will help celebrate the town's bicentenary in 2010. Funded by an award of £440,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the online museum will bring together the past and present through its community archive where residents will be able to contribute their own photographs memories and stories. A collaboration between Bournemouth University and Bournemouth Borough Council, it will feature collections and expertise from Bournemouth Libraries and the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, providing a mix of maps, photographs, paintings, drawings, objects, musical archives and information. Best selling author and former Bournemouth resident, Bill Bryson, is backing the project and says, "The project is a once in a life-time opportunity for the people of Bournemouth to participate in the creation of the town's first centralised online history of Bournemouth." By the end of the two year project, visitors to the website will be able to see how their streets have changed over the last two hundred years by clicking through layers of historical maps. They will also be able to call up a timeline, showing associated images and select strands of information about Bournemouth's people and its buildings, its development as a health and seaside resort, and many other defining aspects of the town's story. Other strands of the project include the conservation of Bournemouth Libraries' early Victorian Day Collection of glass negatives that show a now largely unrecognisable Bournemouth. The collection will be placed online with other historic images as a lasting record, accessible to all. In addition to the website, a primary schools programme, featuring the creation of "Bournemouth in a Box", will be available. Teachers will also be able to access a blog and postcard-making facility, as an interactive way of introducing learners to local and family history. Contact us at Streets of Bournemouth if you have ideas you would like to contribute or if you would like to volunteer to help. More information can be found about Bournemouth Libraries on www.bournemouth.gov.uk/libraries     |
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