Museum of London

Helping visitors engage with the past, present and future

We worked with the Museum of London to help them plan and design a new online presence that inspires "a passion for London".

• 45% increase in ecommerce conversions

• 5% reduction in bounce rates

The challenge

The previous Museum of London website was a few years old, with a dated design that didn't fully showcase the museum's exciting exhibits. Content had accumulated over the years and had spread into multiple microsites, making the Museum's online presence difficult to navigate.

It was clear that the new online presence had to:

• Effectively serve multiple audiences with the right information, including families, teachers, researchers and other museum stakeholders
• Create an online museum digital presence that rivals its physical locations
• Align with the museum's long-term strategic objectives and leave room for future growth
• Maximise exposure for the museum's commercial activities, without compromising on the visitor experience

Our approach

We worked incredibly collaboratively with key stakeholders, holding regular drop-in sessions for museum staff to provide feedback on our IA and designs:

1. We started by running interactive workshops with key stakeholders (to define business goals) and conducting in-depth research with the museum's different user groups (to highlight user needs).
2. This initial research highlighted a lot of areas for improvement, guiding us in creating a new digital strategy and roadmap in line with business goals and user needs.
3. The museum has such a wide range of users with unique content needs, so we carried out more in-depth user research. This time, we explored users' precise information requirements for the website.
4. We then ran 6 separate workshops focusing on content structure and collaboratively prioritising the content. We created a website IA that we then validated with museum visitors through tree testing.
5. Once the site structure was agreed, we designed key pages and a series of flexible templates to be used to create more pages in the future. We ran guerrilla usability testing throughout, in-situ at the museum.
6. Finally, to ensure the new site launches with quality content, we created and delivered a bespoke writing for the web training programme for content editors working at the museum.