The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world.
The exhibition is to introduce the Longmen Grottoes. The Longmen Grottoes, located in Luoyang, Henan Province, China, is one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art. The site comprises the West Hill Grottoes, the East Hill Grottoes, Baiyuan…
The exhibition is to introduce the Longmen Grottoes. The Longmen Grottoes, located in Luoyang, Henan Province, China, is one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art. The site comprises the West Hill Grottoes, the East Hill Grottoes, Baiyuan…
Murray's Bay Harbour was built during World War 2, to enable transport of defence weapons to the island as part of its status as a millitary station for the Union of South Africa after they declared war on Germany in 1939. Just off the coast, off the…
Robben Island is an important site for the African Penguin, and is home to the third largest breeding colony of the species. In the 1600s, Dutch colonial settlers released rabbits on the island for food for any passing sailors. Unfortunately, the…
In the 1600s, large fires were set at the top of Minto Hill by the Dutch colonial settlers, to warn passing ships to keep away from the rocks surrounding the island. Eventually, a full lighthouse was built, completed in the 1860s.
In the 1600s, the Dutch started used the Cape area as an exile location for political prisoners from Malaysia and Indonesia, often wealthy, powerful Muslim men. During the 18th century, a political prisoner from Batavia (modern day Jakarta) named…
The Maximum Security Prison was built in the 1960s by prisoners on the island, with stone coming from quarries on the island (again, worked in by the prisoners). There were blocks where prisoners were housed together, as well as cells for those in…
The origins of the quarry link back to the early Dutch occupation of the island, where limestone from the quarry was used to build the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, using prison labour to mine the stone.
Throughout the Apartheid-era use of…
A key, yet often forgotten part of Robben Island's history is its use as a general infirmary for the severely ill, primarily people suffering from leprosy and insanity (as it was referred to at the time). Numerous churches of different denominations…
The Roman Baths in south-west England is a site of great cultural heritage. With the site's first being built on by the Romans in the 1st century to capture the natural hot springs of Bath, the landscape provides historical evidence of advanced…
Medieval parish churches were hubs of activity within their communities. All adults were supposed to attend mass each Sunday and on feast days (although, of course, not everyone did!), and the major events of most people’s lives, from christening to…
A collaborative project with the West Highland Museum, one of the oldest museums in the Highlands. Fort William is a town in the western Scottish Highlands, on the shores of Loch Linnhe.
Despite the Jacobites outnumbering the Fort Garrison, the…
Kildalton Old Church, or Chapel, dates from around 1425, but the church building may be older still, possibly late 12th or early 13th century. Kildalton Church is situated in the southeast corner of Islay. The earliest documented record of a church…
A virtual dive experience based on the area around Bass Rock. There are a number of scenes with different wildlife. Starting with the island with the Gannets, then underwater with fish and further out with Kelp. There are also Whales and Dolphins.
Camp Nelson, located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, was the United States' third-largest recruitment centre for African American troops and a refuge for Black women and children searching for their freedom during the Civil…
This reconstruction of Glasgow is based on the models available here https://data.glasgow.gov.uk/pages/3d-urban-model under the Open Government License and provided by Glasgow City Council. The models were added to and aligned with a terrain. Water…
A collaborative project between ourselves and the Whithorn Trust. Whithorn embodies the history of Christian belief, power and practice in Scotland. A sacred place for Christians from at least the 600s, the cult of St Ninian flourished here for over…
This site represents the architectural core of what was once a bustling early twentieth-century “gentleman’s” farm complex.
The farmstead, as it appears today, was laid out in a courtyard plan by Hoagland Gates around 1929. Architecturally,…
Once upon a time, the Crescent Moon Spring was more like a lake where people could raft, situated by the Mingsha Mountain, next to the village.
Since the 1960s, the water level of the Crescent Moon Spring has fallen dramatically, and by 1998 the…
Qiyi Glacier, 116 km southwest of Jiayuguan City in Gansu Province, China, on the northern slopes of the Torai Mountains in the Qilian Mountains. It is the closest viewable glacier in Asia to the city, but is shrinking in recent years.
The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also…
The Castra Praetoria served as the barracks of the Praetorian Guard from 23 AD to 312 AD. Built under the orders of Emperor Tiberius, it was a fortified military camp designed specifically to house the Guard. Strategically located on the Northeastern…
The small village of Cramond, on the edge of Edinburgh, is one of Scotland’s most important archaeological sites. People have lived in and around Cramond for at least ten thousand years.
In the Mesolithic era, hunter-gatherers camped here, taking…
In 2020, we collaborated with the Scapa Flow Museum in Orkney. The museum was closed for redevelopment, with a new extension being built and a reopening to the public on the 2nd of July 2022. Working from the museum's extensive archive of photos and…
The Old Fort or Gereza (prison) in Kilwa Kisiwani situated along the coast of southern Tanzania was built by the Portuguese in 1505. This build which has two towers were meant to protect the interest of Portuguese after they had conquered Kilwa…
A magnificent piece of early medieval sculpture, the Pictish St Madoes cross-slab, dates to the eighth century AD. Its imagery powerfully symbolises the authority of the Christian church. The whole is dominated by the ring-headed cross that fills…
Seinn Spioradail is an exploration of the incredible wealth of sights, sounds and memories of spiritual singing and song writing in everyday life in Highland and Island communities, something which has been part of Highland culture for millenia. The…
Drone footage of St Andrews Cathedral on a snow day in 2018 by OVW Team members Dr John McCaffery and Dr Chris Davies. Music credits: St Salvators Choir: Kyrie Chant
Skinnergate was once the main thoroughfare into Perth. Here, just inside the burgh’s boundaries near the city wall was where the Skinners lived. Other smelly and dangerous crafts were settled just outside the wall. Leatherworkers lived here, and had…