Thanks to everyone who visited our stand at the Museums Association Conference and Exhibition 2017, it was great catching up with old friends and making some new acquaintances. A big thanks must go to Microsoft for the loan of a brand new Surface Studio, which allowed us to demonstrate the Saint John’s Bible Turning the Pages in 4K UHD, needless to say it looked stunning! We made some short videos at the conference, and also back at the office as we couldn’t resist trying some of our older Turning the Pages books on the Surface Studio to see how they looked, again the superb quality of the screen really gave them a new lease of life.
Museums Association Conference and Exhibition 2017
Armadillo Systems will be attending the Museums Association Conference and Exhibition 2017, on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th November 2017 at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. We are available all day to discuss your digital library needs, and we will have all our products available for demonstration, including the Saint John’s Bible TTP 4K Gallery running on a very snazzy Microsoft Surface Studio. So if you are attending the conference come and see us at stand 74!
The Saint John’s Bible Gallery Now Open
The Saint John’s Bible is now publicly on display in a dedicated gallery located on the lower level of Alcuin Library on the Saint John’s University Campus. The gallery has free admission and features 28 original folios showcasing works from all seven volumes of the Bible. There are also other rare books and manuscripts from the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library collections on display to complement the exhibition of the folios. Tools, materials and sketches used in the production of The Saint John’s Bible give an insight in to the processes used to create this colossal work of faith and art, as well as an interactive video player, created by Armadillo, which allows you to meet the team behind the project.
Find out more about our work on The Saint John’s Bible project here.
Natural History Museum: Herbarium
For the launch of the Natural History Museum’s spectacular new Darwin Centre, Armadillo were delighted to produce a Turning the Pages Gallery version of a Herbarium, taken from the NHM’s archives. As the Darwin Centre is focused on research in to the diversity of life on Earth we, rather fittingly, produced a Turning the Pages in which the pages come to life! Have a look at the video below, or visit the book at the Darwin Centre if you are able, can you spot the living things on each spread?
National Trust: The Sarum Missal
In 1487 William Caxton printed his first two-colour book – the Sarum Missal, a Catholic version of the mass for the Legh family, owners of Lyme Park, Cheshire. It’s an astonishing book, full of detail about the period, and it’s finally been put on display at Lyme Park using Turning the Pages. Happily, it’s back in it’s original home and visitors can now explore the last surviving pre-reformation Catholic missal – virtually.