Wordsworth Museum Sound Walk
A location-based audio trail bringing Dorothy Wordsworth's journal to life in Grasmere.
Audio trail design
Partners: Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere Women's Institute
Outputs: Location-based audio trail
With Wordsworth Museum and Grasmere Women's Institute, Visioning Lab created a location-based audio walk using the Echoes app. Visitors walked around Grasmere hearing readings from Dorothy Wordsworth's journal at the locations she described.
Concept
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal offers intimate observations of place, weather and daily life. The trail allowed visitors to hear her words in the precise locations she wrote about.
Delivery
Using the Echoes app, audio automatically triggered as visitors reached each location, creating a seamless experience of moving through Dorothy's landscape and words simultaneously.
Impact
The trail revealed Dorothy's voice and vision, often overshadowed by her brother William, and demonstrated how location-based technology can deepen literary heritage experiences.