It's time to announce the results of our web design competition. We would like to thank you all participants for their effort and congratulate the winners!
So the winner and 3 runners up of the competition are:
1.Elena Pozdnyakova - first prize 100 000 KZT
2.Philip Panurovskiy – certificate and special prize from British Council
3.Amanzhol Medetov - certificate and special prize from British Council
4.Vesna.kz web design company - certificate and special prize from British Council
The award ceremony and the launch of the “Museums of Kazakhstan” web site will be organised in December and will be devoted to the celebration of 20 anniversary of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Here you can find works submitted for the competition.
Download detailed description of the competition
Modernisation of Museums is a 3-year project of the British Council Kazakhstan, which aims to build trust and intercultural dialogue between Kazakhstan and the UK.
The project achieves its aim through the promotion of Kazakhstan’s cultural heritage to international, English speaking audiences via various media – web-resources, as well as printed materials for those who visit Kazakhstan.
The project responds to important priorities of Kazakhstan’s government and serves the purpose of cultural relations in a practical and tangible way:
-It addresses the dire need in all museums to develop English language guidebooks and brochures, as well as exhibition labels, for foreign visitors and the need to improve the quality of services. This will result in an increased number of museum visitors and a more sustainable development in the future.
-It supports the government of Kazakhstan’s tri-lingual policy, through providing opportunities for Kazakhstani students of English to practice and develop their professional skills
-It supports the agenda of the Ministry of Tourism in increasing the numbers of foreign tourists to Kazakhstan though contributing to improved quality and range of services available to visitors
-It helps the ambition of the country to raise its international profile and digital presence by creating a tri-lingual web-site, which will gather museums of Kazakhstan in one space, which can be accessed by global web-users.
Phase I of the project, called “Month in Museums” ran from June to December 2010. This phase set a good start for the development of relationships and the fruitful cooperation with central museums, located in Almaty and the capital city, Astana, and expanded beyond to the regions of Kazakhstan.
With the help of volunteering students of English language and other international specialisations from nine HEIs in Almaty, and students of Russian language from five HEIs in the United Kingdom, 18 museums have got at least 1000 copies of their unique brochures, guidebooks and fliers, in English.
The brochures were designed, compiled, illustrated and printed by the British Council, in cooperation with partner museums. Below is the list of museums, engaged in the “Month in Museums” phase of the project.
The volume of work, that our volunteers had to do, equalled one month’s regular work of a typical student’s summer job in Kazakhstan. Also, some British students visited Kazakhstan to do a one month internship at Kazakhstan museums, hence the name of the first phase of the Museums Modernisation project.
To promote the project, the British Council arts team delivered face to face presentations to over 450 students and teachers at 12 HEIs. Announcements were sent to 14 UK HEIs with a call for volunteers for this worthwhile project.
Over 75 Kazakhstani students participated in the competition, run by British Council, Kazakhstan, to identify best translators for volunteer work on the project.
The translations done by Kazakh students were edited and proof-read by their British counterparts. Visiting British students worked together with Kazakh students on translations.
The “Month in Museums” phase was complete by the end of December 2010. An award ceremony, held at the British Council in January 2011 gathered all stakeholders together – Museum directors, from Astana and Almaty, students, representatives of the Ministry of Culture from Astana and project partners from the Akimat of Almaty. Museums received brochures and partner certificates, in time for the Winter Games “Asiada 2011” and students their well-deserved certificates and branded goods from the British Council Kazakhstan.
You can see the photo-stream of this event on our face-book page.
Please find a photo-album related to the museums project here
Phase II of the project, called “Museums Online” started in May 2011 and is dedicated to 20 years of independence of Kazakhstan, as a dynamic and fast growing sovereign state.
This year we continue the work, started last year, to translate museum materials and labels, and have engaged new museums for the development and production of English language visitor’s guidebooks and brochures, based on text and photo-materials provided by museum curators. The 12 additional museums are:
To make information about Kazakhstan’s cultural and historical heritage available, and easily accessible, to English speakers all around the world, the project started the development of a tri-lingual web-site where all museums of Kazakhstan will be brought together. To empower Kazakhstani youth to participate in this initiative, the British Council launched a national competition for the design of the web-site, through the web-resources, HEIs, teaching IT and colleges, graphic design courses, private architectural and design businesses, open source, partner web-sites and poster advertisement in Almaty and Astana.
The winner will be identified in the end of September. After this, the British Council will commission the development of the web-site, based on the winning design. The web-site’s first content will be sourced from English language materials, developed in partnership with the 30 museums which have partnered the British Council during the two years since the start of the project. Images and information about these museums, with the downloadable English language brochures, will make the web-site a fascinating attraction for those who are interested in Central Asia’s remarkable history.
The work on phase II will be completed in December 2011, when the participating museums will receive the English language brochures and the Museums web-site go live.
For additional information on the museums project, please contact Maya Zedelashvili on maya.zedelashvili@kz.britishcouncil.org or Yuliya Pechenkina on Yuliya.pechenkina@kz.britishcouncil.org
Watch with space with more info and update on the development of the project...
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