Experience Manchester Museum's exhibition 'Beauty and the Beasts' with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. Unlock accessible resources such as enhanced audio, video and other digital content relating to the object you are viewing. Simply touch your phone on the tag or scan the hidden QR code.

Descriptions of displays and objects will be read aloud while images can be enlarged directly on your device. Test it out on this introductory panel which has been translated into several languages.

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Accesible digital experience design by Chiara Ludolini, with assistance from Michaela Oldham and Luke A. Williamson. Audio script by Jennie Trueman.

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Manchester Museum would like to thank the following people for their time, effort, and valuable contributions in helping to make sure this site truly is accesible for all our visitors.

 

Translation credits:

 

Arabian: Abdulrazzag Othman, University of Manchester, UK

British Sign Language: Maxine Carson-Byrne and Bryony Rigby

Chinese (Mandarin): Fang Zong, Manchester Museum, UK

Dansk: Natacha Pederson, Manchester Museum, UK

Finnish: Seppo Koponen, Turku University, Finland

French: Lionel Monod, Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland

German: Peter Jäger, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurta.a.Main, Germany

Hebrew: Irit Narkiss, Manchester Museum, UK

Hindi: John Caleb, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India

Italian: Chiara Ludolini, Manchester Museum, UK

Japanese: Tadashige Nishikura-san, Osaka, Japan

Korean: Minsung Kim, University of Manchester, UK.

Polish: Wojciech Wyszyński, Manchester Museum, UK

Russian: Dmitri Logunov, Manchester Museum, UK

Spanish: Diana Arzuza Bulevas, Manchester Museum, UK. Voice: Thomas Devenish Arzuza

Ukranian: Nina Polchaninova, Kharkiv University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Urdu: Sadia Habib, Manchester Museum, UK. Voice: Aisha Shafiq, Manchester Museum, UK

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