What stories do you want to tell?
Create an immersive ‘time travel’ experience in the streets with HistoryCity apps. Design a character-led trail, voiced by actors, that connects the fabric of today’s cities to the lives and events of the past. This 1 min showreel sets out the current features (now also with audio-to-text feature).
Our team of historians at the University of Exeter collaborates with universities, museums, heritage and tourism organisations to develop our apps, which are powered by Calvium. This brief documentary about the making of Hidden Exeter illustrates the process.
Want to get involved?
Get in touch to discuss your idea!
Professor Fabrizio Nevola, HistoryCity project lead: f.nevola@exeter.ac.uk
Dr David Rosenthal,
HistoryCity trail director: d.c.rosenthal@exeter.ac.uk
What people say
This is hugely valuable for historians, because it allow us to take what we have discovered in an archive, in a document, in a fragment of history that has been hidden away, and transpose that into real space and see it in three dimensions. To see it therefore as the people who lived that history saw it.
Professor James Clark, University of Exeter
Why HistoryCity?
- Develop locative research and translate it into high-impact public history
- Enable students to create their own trails with our teaching version of the app
- Create a diverse and rich heritage offer for visitors and residents
- Give new life to established heritage sites and highlight hidden gems
- Decentralise footfall by promoting sites off the beaten path
- Deepen the connection between museums and the city by ‘relocating’ collection artefacts to their former sites
- Publicise your museum, gallery or exhibition
- Extend relationships with museums, heritage bodies and universities.
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