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The Royal Alberta Museum is a museum of human and natural history in Alberta, Canada.

The museum ran an exhibit titled ‘Chop-Suey on the Prairies,’ which told the story of Chinese immigration to Canada beginning with the Fraser Valley gold rush in the 1850s. Their goal was to create a website that would become a companion piece to the exhibit. The local Chinese community and East Asian studies students wanted to explore and contribute to the material gathered for the exhibit, so the website also offered an opportunity for them to view content that couldn’t be part of the exhibit. The museum had hundreds of archival photos and documents, and many hours of video footage to include.

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We used storytelling techniques to design interactive elements like a timeline, mini-game, interactive maps, restaurant menus and photo slideshows alongside text and other ephemera to explore the historical narrative highlighted in the exhibit, while aligning the website visually with the exhibit’s design.

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