GenAI: Creative AI Tools & Processes | Workshop is coming up this week at Mansfield Museum!
Interested in using #GenerativeAI in your creative process? MBD will take you through some of the tried and tested uses of GenAI used in their creative and storytelling projects.
Book now: buff.ly/JjbGD6p
Applications are now open for the Infinite Museum Artist Residency! An opportunity dedicated to Lincolnshire artists to explore immersive storytelling, VR, and heritage within a collaborative environment.
📅 22–25 April 2026
📍The Colonnades, Sutton-on-Sea
👉Apply at tinyurl.com/artist-resid...
At MBD, we’re always proud to support the development of digital skills within our community and that’s why we love collaborating with organisations to create workshops that empower people, build confidence with technology, and help drive positive change in society.
#DigitalSkills #MansfieldMuseum
New Artist Residency coming up in Sutton-On-Sea!
Story Tellers, in collaboration with MBD, are excited to launch a four-day paid residency to explore immersive technology and co-create digital content capturing Lincolnshire’s heritage.
📍Seaview Colonnades
👉 To apply: www.mbd.limited/infinite-mus...
Image of a digital museum in unreal engine with text that reads: Museum Collector 3D Game Making, Wed 4 March | 6–9pm, Mansfield Museum, Info and bookings: https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events
Museum Collector: 3D Game Making Workshop is coming up next week at Mansfield Museum! Guided by the expert team of MBD, you’ll learn how to construct a 3D environment in #UnrealEngine and design interactive spaces that allow players to navigate the museum in search of hidden artefacts to collect.
Getting StoryTeller’s new #VRheadsets ready! 🎥✨
Soon, communities can explore 360° films from last year’s co-location VR experience as part of Infinite Museum Year 2. Excited for what’s next!
Looking for something different to do this weekend?
Join us at Frequency Festival and step into the Infinite Museum VR experience!
This shared VR experience lets you explore Lincolnshire’s heritage, interacting with each other.
📅 19–21 February | 12–4pm
📍 Lincoln Central Library frequency.org.uk
Some great snaps from the launch of 'Neurodiverse Futures', a large-scale digital art installation we created in collaboration with
📍 Baily Gallery, Mansfield Museum & Art Gallery
🕒 Open now – free for all visitors!
More info: www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/homep...
#Neurodiversity
During last year’s Infinite Museum artist residency, local artists created a powerful poem celebrating the Lincolnshire Fens.
Now, 'Storytellers Collection: Ode to the Fens' is available as a #360film on the MBDVR YouTube channel!
And stay tuned as a brand new artist residency is coming soon!
Game Engine Scenography | Creative Technology Workshop is coming up next week at Mansfield Museum!
Guided by the expert team of MBD, you’ll explore how to create theatrical scenes in #UnrealEngine.
👉 Book your place now:
www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events
We’re excited to share Storytellers Collection: The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, a playful 360° film that brings the very first meeting of the Society to life through spirited debates, curious ideas, and a comic twist on history.
🎥 Watch now on MBD’s YouTube and Storytellers’ Vimeo buff.ly/Y4CeXbQ
Excited to share one of our multi-projector 360° mapping projects, installed inside a conservatory to create a seamless, full-surround viewing experience with intuitive real-space playback.
A perfect example of pushing boundaries in immersive tech with MBD. 🎥✨
#MBD #projection #immersivetech
The Marcus Rashford Wall of Hope: An Educational Resource is now officially live! www.marcusrashfordresource.co.uk
Created by MBD with Manchester Libraries and Withington Walls, this interactive digital resource brings together 100 items from the Marcus Rashford Mural Tributes archive!
Image of a 3d object in unreal engine with text that reads Getting Started with Digital 3D, Wed 4 Feb | 6–9pm, Mansfield museum book your place now: https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events
Getting Started with Digital 3D | Workshop is coming up next week at Mansfield Museum!
Guided by the expert team of MBD, you will gain an understanding of the essential tools, software, and processes used by 3D designers.
👉 Book your place now:
www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events
#DigitalWorkshops
New Digital Workshops at Mansfield Museum!
Join us for a series of hands-on digital creative workshops this February and March. Whether you’re curious about 3D, gaming, or AI, these sessions are all about learning new skills and experimenting with emerging tech.
👉 www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/events
Scanning, shooting, testing.. repeat! 😆
Here's a peek at the team experimenting with virtual production using some of the 3D environments scanned in the past couple of months.
#MBD #InnovateUK #3DScanning #VirtualProduction #BTS
Behind the scenes at the MBD studio as the team works on real environment scans for virtual production.
#MBD #InnovateUK #CreateGrowth #3DScanning #VirtualProduction
Don’t miss Neurodiverse Futures at Mansfield Museum!
This immersive digital exhibition, created by MBD in collaboration with Mansfield Museum, Spectrum WASP, and Nottingham Trent University, celebrates the creativity and imagination of autistic and neurodivergent young people.
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It’s been a real pleasure working with Mansfield Museum to install 'Neurodiverse Futures', a free, large-scale digital art installation that brings creative contributions of autistic and neurodivergent young people to life.
📅 From 9 January 2026, 6pm
📍 Baily Gallery, Mansfield Museum & Art Gallery
A look back at everything we built in 2025. ✨
Now we’re stepping into #2026 with exciting new projects and challenges ahead.
Curious about how we collaborate to bring stories to life through projections, VR, and game engine technology?
👉 Get in touch at info@mbd.limited, we’d love to chat!
#MBD
Happy New Year from the MBD team, and welcome to a new year full of new projects! ✨ 🎉
#2026 #NewYear
Mansfield Museum in collaboration with MBD, Spectrum WASP and Nottingham Trent University present ‘Neurodiverse Futures’, a large-scale digital art installation created with autistic and neurodivergent young people.
Details on: www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/homep...
The MBD team wishes you a Merry Christmas! 🎄
May your day be filled with warmth, happiness, and time well spent with loved ones. 🎁✨
#Christmas #MBD #MerryChristmas
✨ 2025 MBD Highlights: The Great Leicester Ghost Hunt
We loved bringing Leicester’s spookiest stories to life this Halloween! Commissioned by BID Leicester, the ghost hunt combined projections and digital effects to transform the city into an immersive, city-wide adventure.
youtu.be/dYxDVOanKyU
More images from the interactive digital resource inspired by the #MarcusRashford mural. Created in collaboration with The Space Arts, Manchester Libraries and Withington Walls, it allows exploring archive material and reflecting on the community’s powerful response to the Euro 2020 vandalism.
✨ 2025 MBD Highlights: Infinite Museum
It was fantastic working with Storytellers NPO to bring immersive skills to Spalding for both young people and artists.
Their creativity and collaboration helped shape the multi-person co-location VR experience that launched in August 2025 at Ayscoughfee Hall.
✨ 2025 MBD Highlights
As we approach the end of the year, we’re looking back at some of the incredible projects that shaped our 2025!
First up: Light Up Leicester! Our large-scale projection “Cathedral, Culture & Crown” illuminated Leicester Cathedral in all its glory.
youtu.be/yrtYr5_k7hk
Who knew we’d learn teleportation at MBD?! 😂
Testing, testing… and teleporting!
Our Innovate UK project has the whole team deep in R&D mode, and apparently, they are discovering new superpowers along the way. 🚀🎬
#MBD #VP #VirtualProduction #InnovateUK #CreateGrowth #3Dscanning
In collaboration with Pedestrian we are launching a new opportunity from January 2026 for young people!
If you are not in education, employment or training and want to learn how to take a game from the first idea all the way to launch, this is for you!
📌 Leicester
Sign up www.pedestrian.info/apply/
Year 2 of Infinite Museum is finally here! ✨
We’re thrilled to continue our collaboration with Storytellers as we dive into another exciting year of activities at Sutton-on-Sea!
With support from local partners, we’ll be offering immersive skill workshops for young people and artists.
