While this blog has been keeping you up to date on project development and how social interpretation fits into A Family in Wartime exhibition, we haven’t given you much info on how the project feeds in to the wider marketing campaign for the exhibition.

A comment was just added on to our Social Interpretation kiosk, against the Gravy Browning box in the A Family in Wartime exhibition.

In answer to the prompt:

How important is it for you to be fashionable during a time of shortages and cutbacks?  During the Second World War there were many shortages, including clothes and make-up Women needed to be very inventive in finding alternatives to remain in fashion. Along with other ‘Make Do and Mend’ ideas, women used gravy powder to stain their legs to look as though they were wearing stockings.

 The comment reads:

“I think it’s a waste of gravy. And you could have dogs around your legs licking.”

The Crusader by Gerry Judah at Imperial War Museum North

It’s always nice to get back to the north. And it’s always nice to visit the IWM North. We went for our SI team meeting this week. Primarily to sort out the rolling out of SI kiosks and QR codes in to the radically different spaces up there. We get the chance to install bigger comment screens and hopefully bigger QR codes too. Size does matter.

Please note: The author usually writes technical documentation. Recent documents have been described as “tedious” and “utterly boring”. In the spirit of blogging I have tried to enliven this with all the wit and charm of a serialised JSON array.

What are the mobile apps?
The SICE Mobile apps (iOS and Android) are being developed by Gooii in Nottingham. The apps are designed to provide access to object information from the IWM database and allow users to comment, collect and share those objects.