The British Museum Membercast

0106 Phone calls from the past

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May 17, 2023
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INSIGHT

Reviving Voices From The Past

  • The Eternal Telephone project brings ancient characters to life by imagining them calling us with voicemails from the past.
  • It creatively connects visitors to objects and lives across cultural and temporal borders in engaging ways.
ANECDOTE

Creating Audio for a Museum Space

  • Finn Kennedy was tasked with designing an audio project fitting the museum space with noise and crowd constraints.
  • This led to the idea of brief, single-voice voicemail-style messages from historical characters.
INSIGHT

Balancing History with Focused Storytelling

  • Writers worked closely with museum specialists to ensure historical plausibility.
  • Each message focuses on one clear reason to create urgency and intimacy in the storytelling.
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