“What does the Cambridge Museum of Technology smell like?”
For the Steam Days, you are welcomed to “smellwalk” in the Museum and inform Victoria-Anne Michel’s PhD research within the Odeuropa project*. Your participation will help draw the Museum’s diverse smellscapes thanks to your words and observations through a walk focused on your sense of smell. You will be guided for approximately 75 minutes throughout the museum to report about what you smell and how you describe it in a form.
> How to participate :
Questionnaire survey open to over-18s (children are welcome to join the tour).
To register for one of the smellwalks, you can go to the museum desk directly to write your name on the list or send an email to Victoria-Anne (vm487@pgr.aru.ac.uk).
The entrance to the museum will be free for the smellwalk participants.
On the day of the smellwalk, please carry a bottle of water and do not wear perfume or other scented products.
Disclaimer : if you worry about not having “enough nose” or “the right words” ; be reassured! The researcher and the form are here to guide you in the process of describing your olfactory impressions, plus ; it is your words that have value for this investigation because they tend to be less tied to an expert vocabulary.
*The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project “Odeuropa” extracts smell-related data from historical images and texts to create narratives around it and create an Encyclopaedia available to the public as well as best practices for cultural and heritage places willing to engage with smells.
> Dates
Saturday 1st of April 2023
10:30am
12:30pm
2:30pm
Sunday 2nd of April 2023
10:30am
12:30pm
2:30pm
One smellwalk will also be organised on Monday 3rd of April at 10:30am ; the machines will not be running on this day but the museum smells are always worth reporting! If you would like to participate to the smellwalk on Monday morning, please send an email to Victoria-Anne (vm487@pgr.aru.ac.uk).
> You can find more information about the PhD research in the video below from 4”15 to 5”) and about the Odeuropa project in their website (https://odeuropa.eu/).
General Data Protection Register (GDPR) notice
Legitimate interest: survey data-collection from adults (18+) for academic research (odeuropa.eu).
Personally-identifiable survey data collected will be processed anonymously and not be shared with the Museum for marketing purposes
Data controllers: Victoria-Anne Michel (Post-graduate researcher, Anglia Ruskin University)
Data operator: Victoria-Anne Michel for Odeuropa.eu
Data portability: Data may be stored outside originating country.