Connecting Communities: A No-Cost Platform for Hosting Virtual Museum and Site Tours
FAIN: ZED-284300-22
Clio Foundation (Huntington, WV 25701-3056)
Francis Curran (Project Director: May 2021 to January 2024)
The development of a virtual tour platform for use by museums, including model tours of three West Virginia museums, creating two new jobs.
Our team will expand Clio’s virtual museum and site tour feature to better serve over five hundred organizations that began using this platform in response to COVID-19. Each new feature will blend lessons learned with the requests of scores of organizations to build a digital platform that assists museums and sites as they reopen. Our team will also work with three area museums to create interactive virtual tours that enhance in-person visitation as models, along with guides, videos, and one-on-one support for organizations around the country. In addition to providing employment and networking opportunities for our team of recent graduates, this project will support hundreds of organizations that would like to use Clio to interpret their communities, museums, complexes, or campuses. Our free educational platform will serve the public and numerous small museums by replicating many of the features of headsets, kiosks, and other shared devices at no cost to the user or organization.
Associated Products
West Virginia Women’s Suffrage Trail (Web Resource)Title: West Virginia Women’s Suffrage Trail
Author: Kathleen Thompson
Abstract: This digital storymap includes sites in West Virginia related to the history of the Women's Suffrage Movement. The map is divided into different zones throughout the state that correspond with cities or regions. Within those regions are pins that each represent places and events that are central to the history of suffrage in the Mountain State.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://theclio.com/tour/2034Guides and Video Tutorials for Using Clio (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Guides and Video Tutorials for Using Clio
Author: David Trowbridge
Abstract: During the grant period, our team created six new videos and several print guides that have helped numerous humanities organizations utilize Clio to create virtual museum tours, interpretive walking tours and trails, and hundreds of articles that interpret landmarks in dozens of communities throughout the United States.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://theclio.com/resourcesAudience: General Public