I just realised we’d set up this blog way back in March 2015. We had no audience then (and don’t have a very big one now, if we’re honest), so the posts were meant as a bit more internal. They might be interesting to you today, and are something of a rough-as-guts archive, so we’ll leave them up.
Lots has happened with the project since then. Here’s a quick timeline:
- March 2015 – Box 001: Made at Somerset House, under The Small Museum banner
- October 2015 – Museum in a Box Ltd. incorporated
- November 2015 – Box 002: On George’s dining room table, paper prototypes examining form and early interaction design ideas
- December 2015 – Box 003, 004, 005: For public display at the Remix conference at the British Museum. Website V1 online.
- February 2016 – Box 006: Our first commission! Big Stuff From The British Museum.
- February 2016 – Gill Wildman joins our Advisory Board
- March 2016 – First grant applications begin…
- April 2016 – Nick Stanhope joins our Advisory Board
- April 2016 – Our first client training session! Martin, Ash, and Ian from the Postal Museum came to the office for an afternoon, and Tom taught them more about Blender. Ask us about training!
It’s tremendous fun. We’re a Proper Startup too, bootstrapping everything and keeping day jobs and working it out as we go. Right now, we’re thinking about:
- Finishing the commission!
- Working directly with teachers in classrooms
- Partnering with museums around content / box curation
- Getting the brain smaller
- Building out web editing UIs to help make new boxes quickly
- Fundraising, fundraising, fundraising.
We’ll plan to write lots more to the blog. I’ve been missing blogging about all the stuff that’s happening. Call me old school, I guess?
