Pitch Opportunity - Create our digital walking tour!

Calling digital producers: Create a digital walking tour to showcase historic images of life on the Scottish coast for Cromarty Museum.

Cromarty Museum is looking to commission a production company to design and deliver a location-based digital heritage experience based on a significant photographic collection documenting Cromarty’s historic fishing community. This opportunity is available through the Highlands and Islands Digital Heritage Network, a National Lottery Heritage Fund digital development programme.

The project will showcase a 1903 collection of photographs by Willie John Smith, providing public access to part of the museum’s collection during its extended closure for redevelopment. The images document the working lives, social conditions, dress, and community relationships of Cromarty’s fishing community at the beginning of the 20th century. The photographs represent a way of life that has since disappeared and are of strong local and national interest.

The project aims to engage local community members to co-create new content including oral history, forming part of an immersive audio narrative. The museum is keen to explore how innovative digital technology can elevate the walking tour experience. For example, through subtle animation to bring historic photographs to life and through creative use of sound and storytelling.

The final output will be a free, mobile-access location-based 8-10 stop digital walking tour through the town of Cromarty, and a fully accessible online version for remote audiences.