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Technology has led to a faster-paced society. Everything is at our fingertips… the tap of a screen can instantly fulfil a request in the same way that QR codes can expand on information you require.
Everyday life is constantly evolving to become quicker and slicker – and so it was only a matter of time before museums would adopt the same technology to improve the visitor experience.
It was during 2013 that the Vintage Carriages Trust incorporated QR codes onto its information boards dotted around its impressive Carriage Works Museum at Ingrow stations on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
This type of technology is nothing new, but the visitor experience was evolving and, over the next two years, would be given what VCT vice chairman Ian Smith refers to as a
