In an interview from the IMAGINES section Associate Professor at the University of Hawai‘i Brett Oppegaard talks to TBIH's Brad Dunn about the UniDescription Project - Increasing Empirical Understanding of Audio Description with People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired. It won the MUSE Research & Innovation Award in 2020.

In the core programme conservator at The Box and project manager for the figurehead conservation and redisplay project Stephen Conway & object and decorative surface conservator at Orbis Hans Thompson talk to TBIH's Vinod Kumar MM about the The Box Naval Figureheads Collection. It received the Museums + Heritage Award 2020 in the category Restoration/Conservation. Director of The Showa Era Lifestyle Museum Yoshinori Ichihashi talks to TBIH's Bruno Brulon about this museum from Kitanagoya, winner of the Japanese Association of Museums Award in 2020. In the fourth interview Eric Schmalz, Citizen History Community Manager, and David Klevan, Educational Outreach Specialist, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum talk to Bruno Brulon about the History Unfolded project. It won the American Alliance of Museums' EdCom Award for Excellence in Programming 2020.

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This grant-funded research initiative – based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa – focuses on Audio Description (Visual-to-Audio Remediation). If you want something to be heard that otherwise only can be seen (such as a photograph, a painting, a poster, a statue, a map, etc.), UniD can help you to learn how to do it and also gives you the open-access tools to produce and share your work. UniD provides open-access online training and resource lists, too. In short, we study descriptions, description tools, and Descriptathons – not necessarily in that order.

The Conservation and Display of The Box Naval Figureheads Collection was an ambitious and transformational project to conserve and restore fourteen degraded, nineteenth century, naval ships’ figurehead carvings and place them on prominent public display as a permanent exhibition suspended within the main entrance of The Box (a museum, gallery, archive and visitor attraction in central Plymouth). The carvings underwent restoration work in the 1950s using untried methods which failed, so The Box proposed to restore the sculptures and suspend figureheads in a huge sweep from the ceiling of the main entrance atrium, creating a memorable visual experience from both within and outside The Box.

The Showa Era Lifestyle Museum exhibits objects of daily lives during the Showa Era (1926–1989) with an emphasis on the post-war challenges and the economic miracle (1946–1970). With a collection of over 100,000 daily life necessities from those times, the museum hosts over 40,000 visitors every year. Exhibits evoke nostalgic feelings and sentiments among visitors, who are encouraged to actively share their memories. With this as a foundation, a new relationship with the elderly in the community was formed by incorporating the reminiscence method into the museum.

History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust is a project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It asks students, teachers, and history buffs throughout the United States what was possible for Americans to have known about the Holocaust as it was happening and how Americans responded. Participants look in local newspapers for news and opinion about different Holocaust-era events that took place in the United States and Europe, and submit articles they find to a national database. History Unfolded raises questions for scholars and is informing the Museum’s initiative on Americans and the Holocaust.