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The Science Museum cares for an astonishingly diverse and internationally significant collection of 7.3 million items from science, technology, engineering, medicine, transport and media. Together these objects tell the story of our world — from the rise of the Indus Valley civilisation over 3,000 years ago to the microchips powering our connected planet today. The Science Museum is undertaking a large-scale digitisation project which will photograph a quarter of a million items photographed and published online in the coming two years. The Group is about two years into this process and there are now over 100,000 objects online with images.

DESIGN BRIEF
Design a range of new solutions to present information to the public in relation to the digital archive collection.

Using assets (catalogue records and images) supplied, in advance by Science Museum Group Collection, design a visualisation, user interface (real or imagined), or exploration tool for discovering the collection. Create ideas, test, play and prototype your design solutions. These could be interactive, built, animated, machine generated, storyboarded or presented as a series of proposals.

Science Museum Group are considering new forms of discovery including more visually-based interfaces which allow new forms of exploration and discovery. We hope this will bring some of the newly digitised object to the fore and enable audiences to discover them easily and to find other objects that they might like.

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