Head to the Roald Dahl Museum on Saturday 12 March for BSL-signed stories and talks, and try out their revolutionary new sign language app, Signly.
Join in with signed storytelling from Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes at 11.30am, 12.30pm and 1.30pm, and find out just how Roald Dahl set about writing his swashboggling stories on one of the signed Writing Hut Talks at 11am, 12pm and 1pm.
The sessions are free with Museum entry and suitable for anyone to attend whether deaf or hearing. There’s no need to book and visitors can attend as many sessions as they like.
You may also like to try out the Museum’s new sign language app, Signly. You can download the app before your visit (or while at the Museum using the free WiFi), and use it to unlock filmed BSL-signed information around the galleries by scanning QR codes.
There are over 20 Signly points around the Museum – it’s like having your own interpreter in your pocket.
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre can be found at: 81-83 High Street, Great Missenden, Bucks, HP16 0AL
The phone number is 01494 892192 and the website is www.roalddahl.com/museum
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Linda Richards
March 6, 2016
Good idea. This kind of technology activity and ‘access’ is long overdue.
I’d personally prefer something more permanent within a museum because it can be hard work trying to hold a mobile phone as well as look after or hold onto kids. Why not a fixed iPad which you can click to activate the signing? And it can be tiring or even more difficult to see as a mobile phone is so much smaller. So I guess it depends what these QR codes are used for. (“Horses for courses.”).
I think it needs to be made clearer that there IS an entry fee. The sessions are free but not the entry to the museum. (Here are the costs: £6.60 for adults, £4.40 for children (5-18) and concessions, £21 for a family ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children), under 5s free.)
Shame there isn’t an example of one of the clips for this museum. Would want an example before paying to go into the museum – especially if that’s the reason for going.
Is the person who is signing on these clips also the same person signing at the sessions next week?
Would also be interesting to know the considerations and factors the person signing took into account before signing these clips.
It’s an interesting development. Hope there’s a feedback process in place too. One that’s acted upon. (Had experience of giving feedback to ‘SS Great Britain’ about their hand-held devices and translations. However, you could see the staff had no idea about how to respond to the feedback or what to do with it.).