City Heritage Guides

City Heritage Guides pull together accessible, inclusive and inspiring heritage content for a local, national and international audience. The Guides present up-to-date information about museums, galleries and heritage brought to life using real experiences, opinions and creative content written by city communities, museum staff and journalists.

Each Guide is updated weekly with heritage news, reviews, listings and promotions with local museums and galleries. More in-depth content explores three themes: By Kids for Kids, Local History and City Trails.

Partnerships have been struck with national and local organisations to make sure featured content gets to the heart of what makes our city culture so fascinating and varied.

Centres for Curiosity and Imagination are mobilising a national network of after-school and museum Saturday clubs to make colourful and fun kids city trails.

Children's Express have writing bureaux in five of the featured cities. They are looking at city culture through the eyes of teenagers and telling it like it is.

The My Brighton and Hove local history website are advising on working with local history groups to create cultural and historical content. They have provided a generic trail with guidance notes for others to follow in their footsteps.  

Individuals, communities and after-school clubs are also developing and editing their own content for inclusion on the site.  

City Heritage Guides will sit on the 24 Hour Museum site. The Guides are available through public access terminals at libraries, UK Online Centres, FE colleges and after-school clubs.

Print versions of the locally written content will be reproduced in local council newspapers, and pre-paid postcards will give readers a chance to offer their recommendations for the site.

Featured cities are Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Bristol, Norwich, Brighton and London.

For cities with diverse ethnic communities, content is available in languages other than English, such as Gujarati and Urdu.