{"id":913,"date":"2018-06-10T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?p=913"},"modified":"2018-06-10T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:50:37","slug":"your-guide-to-interpreting-carriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Your guide to interpreting carriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Staffordshire Archives &amp; Heritage\u2019s Arts Council Resilience funded \u2018Moving On\u2019 project, a new \u2018Guide to Interpreting Carriages\u2019 has been produced. It is available as a free download at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffordshirecarriages.org.uk\">www.staffordshirecarriages.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horse-drawn carriages are found in museum collections across the country. As moving objects in static displays they are often difficult to interpret.<\/p>\n<p>This guide, funded by Arts Council England, brings together best practice in the interpretation of carriages to help museums bring them to life. It was commissioned by Staffordshire Archives and Heritage and written by museum interpretation consultant Steve Slack, in collaboration with professionals from across the museum sector working with carriage collections.<\/p>\n<p>ACE funding has also enabled the team to digitise Staffordshire County Museum\u2019s nationally important collection of horse-drawn carriages, carts and sleighs and make them available online. The Staffordshire Carriages website features 3D imaging that you can rotate and zoom in to explore detail.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_914\" style=\"width: 1839px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Carriages-3D-modeling.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-914\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Carriages-3D-modeling.jpg\" alt=\"The Staffordshire Carriages website features 3D imaging that you can rotate and zoom in to explore detail, including this luxury Barouche. \" width=\"1829\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Carriages-3D-modeling.jpg 1829w, https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Carriages-3D-modeling-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Carriages-3D-modeling-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Carriages-3D-modeling-1024x716.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1829px) 100vw, 1829px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Staffordshire Carriages website features 3D imaging that you can rotate and zoom in to explore detail, including this luxury Barouche.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Staffordshire Archives &amp; Heritage\u2019s Arts Council Resilience funded \u2018Moving On\u2019 project, a new \u2018Guide to Interpreting Carriages\u2019 has been produced. It is available as a free download at www.staffordshirecarriages.org.uk Horse-drawn carriages are found in museum collections across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?p=913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}