A
new prize-winning app provides an opportunity to explore three of the
Danish UNESCO World Heritage sites: the legendary Kronborg Castle at Elsinore – immortalized in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Roskilde Cathedral – the first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick, and the Jelling Monuments – the massive carved rune stones from the 10th century, located at the Danish town of Jelling. The app World Heritage Denmark will now be honored with the 2014 World Summit Award mobile (WSA mobile) in the category Tourism and Culture.
The
prize-winning app World Heritage Denmark is developed by the Danish
Agency for Culture in order to make the World Heritage sites in Denmark
accessible to a broad international audience.
The
app can be used at Denmark’s three World Heritage sites – Jelling,
Kronborg, and Roskilde Cathedral – or at home on the sofa, where
children and adults alike can experience the sites in a 3D map with
360-degree panoramas – in some cases, from angles that are not
accessible to the public.
Among
the many stories available with the app is that of Christian VII of
Denmark. When you hold your iPad over the site where he is buried, he
appears on the screen and talks about the dramatic break with his friend
and physician Struense, who – it turned out – was having an affair with
his wife, Queen Caroline Mathilde. At Jelling, King Harald Bluetooth
rises up in full armour and tells about Denmark’s first Christian
churches and the German Emperor Otto, who did not care for feasts in
Valhalla. At Kronborg Castle, Queen Sofie tells how she was married as a
14-year-old to King Frederik II, even though he was really in love with
Anne Hardenberg, the orphaned daughter of a nobleman.
The
app was developed by Redia for the Danish Agency for Culture in
collaboration with the three World Heritage sites and Theatre Katapult.
The app has been financed by the Labour Market Holiday Fund.
The
app can be downloaded free of charge at the App Store, but it will also
be possible to borrow an iPad, free of charge, at the three sites. Download from app store.
Facts about World Heritage sitesThere
are 1007 unique sites that have been named World Heritage sites by the
UN organisation UNESCO. At the moment, we have five World Heritage sites
in Denmark: the Jelling Monuments, Roskilde Cathedral, Kronborg Castle,
Stevns Klint and the Wadden Sea. In Greenland, the Ilulissat Icefjord
is a World Heritage site.
Facts about World Summit AwardAmid
the world’s best mobile application developers World Heritage Denmark
will be honoured with the global UN-based World Summit Award mobile (WSA
mobile) in February, 1-3 at the WSA mobile Global Congress in Abu
Dhabi. Selected from over 480 from over 100 countries, World Heritage
Denmark was selected in the Category Tourism and Culture by an
international Jury. The World Summit Award Mobile is a global initiative
within the framework of, and in cooperation with, the United Nations
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), in collaboration with
UNESCO, UNIDO and UN GAID. The WSA-mobile is the only ICT event
worldwide, that reaches the mobile community in over 170 countries. Abu
Dhabi, as the city of the award’s key partner ADSIC (Abu Dhabi Systems
& Information Centre), is host for all WSA-mobile Awards.