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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Museums Health & Wellbeing</span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Patients at University College Hospital enjoying an object handling session</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Can museums improve your health and wellbeing?</span></span></span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a question we
have been tackling here at UCL Museums. We’ve been interested in museums’ role
in health and wellbeing for a while, so when we were awarded a 3-year research
grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council we set about trying to
answering the question:<span style="color: orange;"> <i>what is the therapeutic value of handling museum objects?</i>
</span>We focused this research around hospitals and care homes, as traditionally
museums have not worked particularly closely with these organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Approach</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our approach has been
to work in partnership with a range of collaborators from academics, museum
curators, clinicians, hospital patients, care homes residents and their families
and carers, applying rigorous methods for assessing the impact of museum
encounters on health and wellbeing. We ran over 300 one-one and group object
handling sessions in hospitals and care homes and acquired lots of data during
the process. Using standardised clinical measures for quality of life,
psychological and subjective wellbeing, alongside qualitative analysis of
conversations from the handling sessions, we acquired a detailed and nuanced
view of the discrete ways in which museums impact individual health and
wellbeing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Results</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The results of our
research showed highly significant improvements in positive emotion, wellbeing
and happiness, improvements in patients’ perceptions of their own health and
optimism about the role of museum object handling as a distraction from ward
life that impacts positively on relationships among staff, patients and their
carers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">A Museum Wellbeing Measure</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the three-year
period in which we ran the research we became aware that more and more museums
were starting to address the health and wellbeing agenda. So this led to a
follow up project where we ran a series of workshops and surveyed lots of
museums to find out more about what other museums are doing. This work revealed
that not only are there many examples of interesting health and wellbeing
projects being run in the UK and elsewhere, but museums are targeting a range
of audiences (from older adults through to mental health service users) and
using a range of approaches to understand the impact of their work on
audience’s health and wellbeing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">That said, there is
still a huge amount of work to do to fully understand the impact of our work on
individual and community health and wellbeing. To this end we have been working
with around 20 different museums to develop a museum-wellbeing measure. The
idea is to develop a toolkit, which can be used, re-used, adapted and augmented
for use in evaluating the effects of museum encounters on health and wellbeing.
<span style="color: orange;">Watch this space to find out more…</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Impact</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Understanding the
impact of museums on health and wellbeing has never been more important than at
the present time. The radical reforms brought about by the recent Health and
Social Care Act, with a focus on prevention rather than cure and greater
involvement of the third sector, presents new opportunities as well as
challenges for the museum sector. A further challenge for the museums sector is
its financial future; given financial constraints and the importance of partnership
working we have been exploring the role of volunteers in extending health and
wellbeing programmes into community venues such as care homes, day centres as
well as hospitals. Funded by the HLF, our Touching Heritage programme is also
gathering feedback from the volunteers about the value of their experience to
them and their professional development. Find out more at:
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/touching-heritage/.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">So what is the answer to the question: ‘Can
museums improve your health and wellbeing?’</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">We think the answer is definitely
yes</span></span><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Arial;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Evidence suggests
that museums can help in lots of ways by: providing positive social experiences
leading to reduced social isolation, opportunities for learning and acquiring
news skills, providing calming experiences leading to decreased anxiety,
increased positive emotions such as optimism, hope and enjoyment, increased
self-esteem and a sense of identity, increased inspiration and opportunities
for meaning making, providing positive distractions from clinical environments
including hospitals and care homes, and
opportunities for increased communication between families, carers and
health professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Author
|</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;"> </span>Helen Chatterjee
is Deputy Director of UCL Museums and a Senior Lecturer in Biology at
University College London. Helen’s forthcoming book <b><i><span style="color: orange;">Museums, Health and Well-being</span></i></b>
is due out in Autumn 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Further information
about the research discussed is available at: </span><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/research/touch"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/research/touch</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">This blog is the
first in a series of three by UCL Museums discussing Museums & Wellbeing,
as Helen says watch this space…</span></span></b></span><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">The First World War Centenary | A Great Opportunity for Museums</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since
November 2012, when I started my role (which is funded by Arts Council
England), I have visited every region of the country to explain why IWM (Imperial
War Museums) and the Arts Council think that the First World War Centenary
(2014-2018) is a great opportunity for museums. There are many reasons for this including the
length of the anniversary, allowing museums to experiment with programmes, the
opportunities to partner with other organisations with the hope that these
partnerships will last beyond the Centenary and the huge interest that the
public have in this subject and therefore the potential to develop audiences. Through
my work, to encourage museums in England to take part in the commemorations [see
picture below], I have come across a considerable number of networks and
organisations that are keen to do something to mark this important anniversary.
If I went into detail on all of the projects that I have come across, this blog
would run into a book rather than being a snappy update. This goes to show how
little encouraging I have had to do!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: cyan;">Me at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in December 2012</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are
probably a variety of reasons as to why everyone is so eager to take part, but
I think it has a lot to do with the wide reaching effect of the war – it
touched everyone’s lives - and even if
you do not have an ancestor who fought, you live in a world which was radically
changed as a result.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">IWM is the
cultural lead for the Centenary and, in order to help other organisations,
created the </span><a href="http://www.1914.org/partners"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Partnership Programme</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. The aim of the
Partnership is to create a high quality programme for the public through
organisations working together and sharing knowledge with each other. IWM is
sharing some of its own collections (which are free to download for members)
and expertise through our ‘Useful Guides’. The latter have been created
specifically to advise on areas such as teaching the First World War. IWM is
encouraging others to share their expertise and to communicate with other
organisations to make sure that the public get a coherent and varied offer
during the Centenary years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Organisations,
ranging from museums, libraries, archives, schools, universities, arts groups
and others, have come together to coordinate varied projects in their regions. In
Wiltshire, for instance, key representatives from relevant organisations across
the county have come together to form a steering group, which will coordinate
their county-wide programme and advise on whether and when events should take
place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kent and
Medway have also formed a steering group after a large meeting of organisations
identified the need for coordination. They will shortly be forming sub groups
to advise on projects relating to education, research and more. They are going
to have a shared blog and calendar for their activities in order that they can
compare and avoid duplication of work and type of project – something that is
key to the success of the Programme. Furthermore, they want to be able to do
joint marketing for events in their region and while this will no doubt be
dependent on funding, it is a great ambition to have.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">In order to
support these new and existing networks, I have been putting together an
overview of museum-led activity in England. However, I am now turning my focus to
supporting museum projects more practically – be that by bringing more organisations
together to work on their ideas, or by helping identify additional support
(other than funding) that we can give to certain projects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Speaking of
funding, this is obviously one of the key challenges facing us all. Fortunately,
both the Arts Council and Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) have been extremely
supportive of the Centenary and have already provided funding to projects. Additionally,
HLF are about to launch a small grants programme specifically for Centenary
projects that look at involving young people and communities. At the time of
writing, the information was not available on their website, but keep checking
back to </span><a href="http://www.hlf.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">www.hlf.org.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> for further information. Applications are welcome
from the end of May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The First
World War Centenary is a great opportunity for museums and other arts
organisations to bring together groups of people from a wide variety of
backgrounds. As it is a long anniversary, there is plenty of time to try out
new ideas and new plans. It is exciting to see how it is already helping
organisations to work together, which will undoubtedly have long-term benefits
for all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">London has
already had a good take up when it comes to the Centenary. However, there have not
been any large-scale meetings purely for London organisations, which is why
IWM, the London Museum Development Team, HLF and others are coming together to
organise one. Speakers will be sharing information and advice but the rest of
the session will be for networking. The meeting is planned for the afternoon of
Tuesday 25 June at the Churchill War Rooms in Westminster. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The details are still being finalised but for more information and if you would like to sign up, please go to: <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6461076253"><span style="color: orange;">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6461076253</span></a>. Alternatively, please feel free to e-mail me to find out more or to ask me anything about the Centenary:<span style="color: orange;"> <a href="mailto:jgale@iwm.org.uk">jgale@iwm.org.uk</a></span>. I look forward to hearing from you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Author
|</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: orange;"> </span></b>Josie Gale </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Centenary Programme Museum Liaison Officer for English Regions, Imperial
War Museums and LMG Member.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><b>Owning up to Authorship</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Museums
are full of objects, but they are usually just as full – too full, often – of
text. With a combination of object labels, introductory panels and
interactive exhibits, a single display space can feature thousands of
words. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet
almost all of this writing is anonymous; it is very rare to find any kind of
label or exhibition authored by a member of museum staff. Instead the
‘voice of the museum’ is presented as objective truth. As those of us who
work in museums are well aware, most displays – while they might represent a
collective effort on the part of a number of people – are the result of a
series of individual decisions. We choose the objects to display, choose where
they go and choose what we say about them. We will almost certainly argue
with each other about some of these decisions, but the end result will be
presented as a single authoritative selection and voice. Often, a ‘house
style’ is adopted for text, which – while it may well make displays clearer to
understand – will also help to paper over differences of opinion or approach.
Even the V&A’s excellent <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-gallery-text-guidelines/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">gallery text
guidelines</span></b></a>, which encourage museum staff to ‘bring in the
human element’ and ‘write as you would speak’, stop short of suggesting that
you should say who you are. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Added
to this, almost all museums have galleries where the displays and
interpretation haven’t changed for decades. All the staff know that these
displays are out of date, that much of the information in them needs revision,
but this will almost certainly not be clear to the public. There is no
equivalent to the frontispiece in a book, or the documentary credits, which
would tell the visitor who put the thing together and when. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
reluctance to author displays, to name the people who composed them, seems
increasingly old fashioned. Particularly so in a university museum context,
where authorship is paramount and where the tradition of academic freedom rests
upon the belief that individuals should be free to express their opinions in
order that they can be opened up to further debate. In a world where
individual comment is increasingly ‘out there’, in blogs such as this one, and
where co-curation with academic or community partners is increasingly common,
it is surely time we started owning up to the fact that most museum text is
someone’s personal opinion, albeit informed and evidenced in a variety of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
stores and cupboards of UCL museums contain lots of objects with hand-written
labels. Most of these date from a pre-computer age when it was only worth
typing a label if was going on display. Handwriting personalises the
information immediately, and if you work in the museum for any length of time
you learn to recognise different individual styles, the traces of former
curators, some of them now dead, reminding you of their passions and their
personalities. There are probably all sorts of reasons why a wholesale
return to handwritten labels would not be a good idea, but is it worth thinking
about how we might, as museum staff, own up to authorship of exhibitions and
displays?</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Author |</b></span> Sally Macdonald, Director, Museums and Public Engagement, UCL</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">First published by <a href="http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2013/04/04/owning-up-to-authorship/">UCL Museums and Collections Blog</a> on 04 April 2013. Image and text copyright UCL.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Touching Objects | Waulud's Bank Object Box </span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.lutonculture.com/"><span style="color: orange;">Luton Culture</span></a></span> recently piloted a
user-created object box based on a local archaeological site, <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waulud%27s_Bank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Waulud’s Bank</span></a>. </span><span style="color: #4b5352;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
pilot was not formally structured meaning that the end product – the Waulud’s
Bank object box, a mini museum that contains real objects from the
archaeological site, replica objects and archive material – was not anticipated
at the start. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead
an organic approach was taken; year 9 pupils from a local high school worked as
museum consultants to <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/museums-and-schools/16042012-luton-culture"><span style="text-decoration: none;">help develop the
object-based learning resource</span></a>. </span><span style="color: #4b5352;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
box‘s self-facilitation design enables it to be loaned out to schools with the
objects being a catalyst for teaching. We’ve found that other users also easily
engage with the box, from elderly daycentre patients with dementia to
sixth-form students, local archaeology societies and University of the Third
Age learners. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Using
real archaeological objects in the box wasn’t a problem. Rugged and durable
objects were chosen, such as pottery sherds and flint artefacts. Any risks
outweighed by the power of touch – to inspire, aid the imagination and create a
sense of wonder about a topic that is not always easy to teach using archive
material such as photographs and maps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Above
all, the box provides a memorable experience for users of all ages and in an
intimate way it helps with engagement to the local area and creates an
understanding of a sense of place. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tips
for creating handling boxes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">The box the objects come in is as important as the objects themselves
if you want people to engage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Life-size replicas can really help. Sometimes seeing what
objects would have looked like makes the original fragments more exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Ask participants for their observations to ensure they engage
with objects, rather than just picking up and putting them down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Facilitators should use the objects to tell a story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that doesn’t immediately mean they are not engaging with the objects and that’s
the fun and challenging aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
project was funded by the <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/collections/effective-collections"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange;">Museums
Association Effective Collections</span></span></a><span style="color: #4b5352;"> </span>fund. We are now working to
disseminate the findings and share knowledge on how to make an effective
learning tool for £1,500 (this covers the cost of the box, replicas, graphics
and object specialist advice). <span style="color: #4b5352;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="font-family: Times;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">For more information on the box please contact Timothy Vickers: <a href="mailto:timothy.vickers@lutonculture.com"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">timothy.vickers@lutonculture.com</span></a> / 01582 546722.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Authors |</span> </b>Timothy
Vickers, Collections Care Officer at Luton Culture and Julie Reynolds, Freelance Researcher. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">This article was first published by <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/touch/15022013-luton-culture"><span style="color: orange;">Museum Practice </span></a>in February 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">University Challenge | Exploring university and museum relationships in the Share Academy project</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Teaming up to score shared rewards</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the autumn of 2012, Arts Council England
funded University College London [UCL], the University of Arts London [UAL],
and the London Museums Group [LMG] to investigate how those working in museums
and universities could effectively team up in order to reap the rewards of
collaborative partnership | <span style="color: orange;">Share Academy</span>.
With just six months to find out what kinds of collaborative work was
already taking place across the sectors, identify new projects to launch, and
provide practical guidance on our findings – we got off to a prompt start. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">F</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">rom the outset the project
team were aware of the big issues that affect grassroots work, such as the
scarcity of funding across the cultural sector and higher education, the perceived
inequalities in status, power and resources between museums and universities,
and punishing schedules that make forging new working relationships a luxury
rather than common practice.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
However, in a climate of funding cuts and demoralisation amongst the
arts and culture, pooling resources and expertise seemed not only desirable but
vital, and as far as our project was concerned, the opportunity to help bridge the
divide between these two different but deeply connected sectors was hugely
exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Investigations revealed skill
sharing opportunities</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">A series of investigative focus groups
revealed a collective verve amongst museums for generating new collaborations
with universities. Participants highlighted the scope of possibilities, ranging
from encouraging original research on collections to opportunities for student
internships. Specialist conservation techniques, new interpretations of
artefacts, and audience-engaging digital technologies were all seen as
potential gains from cross-sector partnership. Whilst museums have long been
viewed as spaces primarily for school visits, local community groups, and the
‘general public’ we’ve uncovered that in reality museums professionals consider
university academics and students as an under-developed audience with
interesting potential. Moreover, the museums we spoke with were clear about the
distinctive value of their spaces and objects as gateways to new ways of
thinking for academia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Existing cross-fertilisation</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conversations with academics and museum
professionals also revealed current trends in collaborative work. After all, partnership between museums and
universities is hardly a new concept. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where would an archaeologist be without access to the
collections that form the basis of their research? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: large;">How would an art historian teach their students without
contact with the works of art themselves? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">But these were by far the most obvious
examples of cross-fertilisation and whilst some fields of university research
and teaching were based on the material realities of museum spaces, their
unique collections, and professional practices, others certainly were not. But
therein lay the challenge!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Teaming up and shared rewards</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;">The Museum of Brands and Packaging</span><span style="color: #95b3d7;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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inherent in cross-sector collaboration. For example, the UCL </span><a href="http://www.qrator.org/about-the-project/"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">QRator</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> project added a new level of interactivity to the </span><a href="http://www.qrator.org/about-the-project/qrator-at-the-museum-of-brands/"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Museum of Brands</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, giving
museum visitors the opportunity to use in-house technology to actively engage
with questions that are important to the museum, its collections, and wider
society [see images above and below]. At the <a href="http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/">Cinema Museum</a>, postgraduate
students from <a href="http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/">Central Saint Martin’s</a> [UAL] were given the chance to act as
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A third initiative raised important questions
about the role of museums both in academic research and in society. A
three-year </span><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/research/touch/heritageinhospitals"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">research project</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> lead by
academics at UCL had collected and analysed data on over 250 museum object
handling sessions in a range of healthcare settings. The findings revealed that
object handling increased feelings of positive wellbeing and enhanced
communication between patients and carers. To date, no heritage-focused measure
of wellbeing exists and the next step was for researchers to try out the
wellbeing measures developed in healthcare environments within museums. The </span><a href="http://www.islington.gov.uk/islington/history-heritage/heritage_museum/Pages/default.aspx"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Islington Museum</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> and UCL teamed
up to carry out this research with the museum’s visitors. In the short term,
the museum was keen to see how the sessions worked as part of their diverse
programme of events. In the longer term, the research holds potential to
clearly demarcate the impact of contact with museums and their collections on
feelings of personal wellbeing, which could be a powerful tool for the sector
as a whole. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">This research project simply could not have taken
place without the collaboration of museums and, moreover, the project’s
outcomes having tangible results for museums in terms of articulating the
positive societal impact of the work that they do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are just a few examples of what
partnerships could bring, but what were the stumbling blocks? Talking to people
in museums and universities has clearly shown that practical barriers exist to
collaborative work but that there is also great insight into the difficulties
and, therefore, scope to resolve them. In general, raising awareness on both
sides of the distinct institutional pressures, timescales and working practices
would go a long way to overcoming these barriers. We identified that many
relationships began in an informal or ad hoc way. Whilst this approach could
offer flexibility, it might also lead to mismatched expectations and consequent
disappointment. In addition to this, many museums and academics were eager to
work on new projects that could push the boundaries of their current practice,
but individuals found it difficult to identify suitable partners or have the
confidence to approach new contacts with project proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To help the two sectors uncover the synergies
between them and overcome barriers, Share Academy is developing a series of
advice guides on internships, identifying new partners, project planning, and
memorandums of understanding for use across the sectors. We identified that
whilst academics often have an easily searchable staff page detailing their
research interests, individuals working in the museum sector did not. This
situation made it more difficult for academics to find the right contacts in
museums. To address this issue the project will develop a directory of London
museums, which will be hosted on the </span><a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">London Museums
Group website</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, providing a ‘one-stop’ web
resource to discover museums and establish new partnerships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Changing landscape | fruitful
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">So all of this begs the question, can a small
project like Share Academy fundamentally change the landscape of collaboration
between museums and universities? The short answer is: not immediately. But we
can lay the foundations for new and innovative partnerships between the
sectors. These foundations will contribute to a strengthening of existing
relationships, better mutual understanding of the different priorities and
challenges of each sector and, in the longer term, a closer and increasingly
fruitful connection between museums and higher education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">If this project has one message, it is |<span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">go out there,
network, get in contact with potential partners, and pitch your ideas! There is
really nothing to lose and a new relationship is only an email away.</span><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-size: large;">As this pilot project completes, we are
hosting a symposium and networking event on 10 April 2013 to bring together
interested individuals from across London museums and universities to explore
the practical potential of forging a closer working relationship. To book a
place please <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/org/3367518770">click here</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Authors | Share Academy Project Managers</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;">Dr Leonie Hannan</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is a Teaching Fellow in the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Museums & Public
Engagement department at UCL. Contact: </span><a href="mailto:l.hannan@ucl.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">l.hannan@ucl.ac.uk</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;">Paddy McNulty</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is Director of Paddy McNulty Associates, a consultancy focusing
on museums, heritage, and culture.
Contact: </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:culture@paddymcnulty.co.uk"><span style="font-family: Arial;">culture@paddymcnulty.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> or find out more about his work at </span><a href="http://www.paddymcnulty.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">www.paddymcnulty.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">More information on the Share Academy <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1210/02102012-arts-council-funding-for-UCL-museums">click
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">This blog is re-published on the <a href="http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2013/03/21/university-challenge-exploring-university-and-museum-relationships-in-the-share-academy-project/">UCL Museums and Collections blog space.</a></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Radical
Collaboration | Tools for Partnering with Community Members</span></span></b></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: cyan;">This guest post was written by my incredible colleagues, Stacey Marie
Garcia and Emily Hope Dobkin, with minimal input from me. It started as a
handout for a session Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of
Museums, and then I realised it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing
with all of you. Can't wait to hear what you think. <br />
<b>Nina Simon, Executive Director, Santa
Cruz Museum of Art & History</b></span><span style="color: #8db3e2;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The majority of our public programmes at the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.santacruzmah.org/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> [MAH] are
created and produced through community collaborations. Each month we work with
50-100 individuals to co-produce our community programmes. It’s not
unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a
farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Every time we
collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organisation and
communication. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We never received a “how-to-guide” for collaborating with community
members here at the MAH, but over time, we have acquired some basic tools that
have shaped<i> </i>our approach. We realise collaboration differs greatly for
each individual and organisation. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing
and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own
community. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Start with and continuously identify
your communities.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Who are they?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What are their needs?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What are their assets?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Who is represented in your museum? Who isn’t?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One way we do this is through </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">C3 (Creative Community Committee) meetings</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;">.</span> C3 is a group
of diverse community members that meets to creatively brainstorm new forms of
collaboration with community members. C3 topics have ranged from exhibition
development, community needs, outreach programmes, our </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://loyaltylab.wordpress.com/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">Loyalty Lab</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> project, and family
programmes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Reach out to and continuously seek
diverse collaborators - not just the usual suspects.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Look for partners who have:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">An understanding of and desire to help meet your
community’s needs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Incredible assets, skills and resources to offer to
your community but are in need of more awareness, promotion, visibility and
representation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A genuine enthusiasm for sharing their skills,
building knowledge and developing relationships in the community even if they
haven’t done it before. For example, a few months ago we had a couple approach
us to propose a Pop-Up Tea Ceremony. Their enthusiasm and commitment
charmed us and aligned with our social bridging goals. We invited them to set
up the day after we met them and they’ve been Friday regulars ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Experience working with a wide variety of age
groups or teaching in general. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Good communication skills and are kind and
friendly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Large and small (or no) followings. When planning
programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and
bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Openly invite collaboration by
establishing and maintaining transparency about your partnerships with the
public and fellow staff members.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">On your website:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">share <span style="color: cyan;"><b>y</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.santacruzmah.org/whatson/our-event-philosophy/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">our programing goals</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, solicit
collaborations in general and for specific events, provide easily accessible </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.santacruzmah.org/about/contact-us/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">staff contact</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> information,
clearly state how your collaborations function, give thanks and acknowledgement
to your collaborators through your website and on a Facebook page.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">At your museum:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> have your
front desk staff aware of upcoming events and collaboration possibilities,
always have business cards available for visitors interested in collaborating
so they can easily contact staff members. Be available to talk with
people at your events and hand out your contact information to anyone who has
an idea they’d like to talk with you about or is interested in helping. Follow
up with them later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Don’t pass judgment or make
assumptions</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Always be open to discussing collaborative possibilities with anyone and
everyone and then decide if it’s a good fit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Mine your colleagues;</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> ask for ideas
and suggestions from staff members for resources. You never know who might have
connections to some place or another. For our Art That Moves event, our
Membership and Development Director suggested the incredibly popular </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/sets/72157631605900792/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">Tarp Surfing</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> activity.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Always meet your collaborators in
person. We can’t overstate how important this is to getting everyone moving in
the same direction.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Clearly explain how your organisation collaborates
with others before you meet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Meet them at your museum so they begin to become
more familiar and comfortable with the space and understand how they will fit
into the event or programme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ask them about their goals for this collaboration
and share your goals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Find a way, <span style="color: orange;"><i>together</i>,</span> to achieve both.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Brainstorm together your wildest ideas and then
scale back. For our 3<sup>rd</sup> Friday series, we like to have an initial
meeting with all of our collaborators and together go over the community
programme goals tied to the theme of the event. Incredible projects can arise
when you have a poet, a librarian, a printmaker, a bookbinder and a teacher all
throwing out ideas together. (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/sets/72157632032276753/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">Radical Craft Night</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;"> </span>and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/sets/72157632584727133/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">Poetry & Book Arts</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Allow time to pass for further individual
reflection, for them to share their ideas with other members of their organisation
and for you to give it further thought.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Confirm final details with them over the phone,
email or go to their location this time.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Collaboration is based upon
communication. Get ready to talk.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Be prepared to spend an <i><span style="color: orange;">enormous</span></i>
amount of time communicating with each individual through email, over the phone
and in person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Make time for them. When you give collaborators more
of your time, they will feel more confident about their role in the event,
their project/workshop/demonstration will inevitably be stronger and your
visitors will be happier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When you produce a large event with many
individuals, make sure they are all connected through email. This establishes
communication across the entire group, collective teamwork, the opportunity to
share resources and the possibility of future relationships and connections to
develop amongst your collaborators. Recently, we hosted a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.pechakucha.org/"><b><span style="color: #000087; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">PechaKucha</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> night at the MAH, which
featured a wide range of community members presenting on eight different
topics. These eight people didn't know each other at all before the event. In a
pre-event email exchange, one presenter offered up a useful link to help practice
giving this kind of talk. That email sparked several messages of appreciation
and excitement, creating a sense of comradery.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Even if you can’t financially
compensate your collaborators, show your collaborators how much you value them.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many times, we cannot pay our collaborators. For some MAH events, we
collaborate with 120 individuals across the spectrum from amateurs to
professionals, all of whom have very different expectations about compensation.
How do we pay a group of ukulele players, a teenage rock band and a
world-renowned musician fairly and on a very limited budget? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Here are some other ways we compensate our collaborators:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Give them as much press as possible. Suggest them
to press for a feature in the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/entertainment/ci_21337828/christa-martin-spotlight-architecture-fine-art-story-fuse"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">local paper.</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Acknowledge them on your website and always link to
their website.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pay for all their materials.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Offer food and drinks for them at the event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Give them a guest pass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thank them and credit them for their work and
volunteered time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Refer them if someone asks you for a
recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Help them learn from the experience. We recently
had a group of students creating balloon art during our </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/8408734859/in/set-72157632597540014"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">Winterpalooza Family Festival</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. New to the
art form and the museum, we gave them a gift certificate to reflect over
milkshakes at a local burger joint after the event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Encourage them to promote themselves/their organisation
and offer ways for visitors to learn more about their events at your
event. It’s a reciprocal appreciation: we are able to showcase and share
the amazing talent in our community, and they’re able to share their work with
a larger audience, make new connections in the community and learn from their
experiences interacting with the public.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Your partners are doing a lot of
work. Make it as easy for them as possible.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Share your resources and connections that can help
make their activity/collaboration stronger. A friendly sheet metal company in
Santa Cruz provided scrap metal for our Experience Metal festival last summer;
we thanked them by donating back the giant robot visitors partly made from the
scrap.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Buy, gather, and prep all the materials you
can. This might mean cutting thousands of papers various sizes, wheeling
hundreds of library books through downtown, dumpster diving for cardboard boxes
and driving up to the mountains to move a 200lb letterpress to the MAH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Set up their tables and materials for them before
they arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Have volunteers ready to assist them with set up
and break down, as well as coverage during breaks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Clearly communicate with them throughout the
process, show them exactly where they will be and where everyone else will be,
let them know the schedule, where to check in, how and where to find help and
assistance and what is expected of them before, during and after the event.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Get collaborators' feedback and give
them credit for their contributions.</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Survey your collaborators extensively to find out:
ways to improve for next time, what they appreciated, how or if they benefited
from the collaboration, and what changes they’d like to see made. Here's </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZC8GV3T"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">a sample
collaborator survey</span></span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> from our recent Poetry and Book Arts event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Read the surveys and make active and immediate
changes based upon their feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Document the event: Share photographs of the event
on social media outlets and always have fully downloadable photographs
available for their use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Keep in contact with them. These people are now one
of your best and most reliable resources and you can be theirs as well. Stay up
to date with them about future collaborations or other potential collaborators
they may know. Be helpful to them and they will be helpful to you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">How do you
collaborate with your community? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: cyan;">What tools
and methods have you found beneficial?</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Authors |</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stacey Marie Garcia, Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz
Museum of Art & History<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emily Hope Dobkin, Programs Associate at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art
& History<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This story was originally published on Nina Simon's </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.museumtwo.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: cyan;">Museum 2.0 blog</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and is republished
here with the kind permission of the authors and Nina Simon.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->London Museums Group Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08051577271555628879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789320169049292154.post-5619401024529467312012-12-21T06:26:00.000-08:002012-12-21T06:26:24.322-08:00One project finishes | another one starts better
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">One
project finishes, another one starts better</span></span></b></h2>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">How
can we share what we learn?</span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There’s no doubt in my mind that there is some
excellent audience research going on in the heritage industry, but I’m equally
convinced that we could and should share it better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question is how?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Audience research at the Science Museum has focused for
over 15 years on improving our offer for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">visitors</span></i></b>.
The main people the research has influenced have therefore been internal – the
exhibition/programme/web teams who make our offer and the Trustees and
Executive Board who drive our audience-focused strategy. We have always wanted
to publish the results of our evaluation more broadly and have sometimes done
so<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
but I have to admit this has been opportunistic. Too often as one project
finishes we are taken up in the rush of the next before sharing what’s happened
outside the Museum itself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is now
changing. We have a new Director keen to raise the profile of the work we’re
doing, and we have started going down several paths to do just that. Here are
some of the issues that I’ve come across in doing this and some suggestions for
making sharing easier.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Which
evaluation to publish?</span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If most evaluation publications are about the
summative conclusions at the end of a project we miss out on sharing front-end
and formative research. I can understand why this is – developmental research
is harder to publish and is often ‘quick and dirty’ with the practical aim of
getting an exhibit to work rather than exploring the intellectual theory behind
it. Yet if we fail to share this kind of research we underplay the crucial
research and development function of audience research, one which leads to
perhaps the greatest direct impact on visitors. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Front-end research can completely change the direction
of an exhibition. Here are some examples of how it has worked for us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">'</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Difficult and
dull'</span> was the audience reaction to the idea of a gallery on brain
science and genetics. The reaction challenged us to be more creative and we
reframed the exhibition around the issue of identity. The result is the
enduringly popular <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">'Who Am I?'</span> gallery. For a
redevelopment in 2010, we conducted formative research with disabled groups who
asked for a more multisensory approach to content. The result was a series of case
augmentations bringing objects into the open gallery [fig 1] and increasing
engagement opportunities for all our visitors. Increasing access is a key
interest of the Audience Research Group and this work was discussed at several
conferences.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title="">[ii]</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Fig 1 | Case augmentation on human emotions, Who Am I? Copyright© Science Museum</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we designed our new Launch Pad gallery [the
Museum’s signature interactive children’s gallery which presents science
phenomena through hands-on exhibits], the existing Launch Pad provided an ideal
test-bed for new ideas. Almost immediately we discovered that the current space
was pitched at the wrong audience, falling into the chasm between younger
children [for whom the scientific ideas were too complex] and older children [for
whom the design was too childish]. Moreover, although current learning
literature stresses the importance of social learning, it turned out that a lot
of the existing exhibits gave a passive, demonstration type of experience
rather than offering opportunities for interaction [fig 2]. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1I2tgGMkQx-a5DDePPkOmifb4w7P503SkRjY2IdEASLQpJ1vhnlpPAS6qt6JREQzq2qNU3JaRKHHcVTkLikkDLnGJz8dTribUcCb_tImiaO2c7touhsoMKG9L14NgDx-lttwPCd6fn-Q/s1600/Fig+2.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1I2tgGMkQx-a5DDePPkOmifb4w7P503SkRjY2IdEASLQpJ1vhnlpPAS6qt6JREQzq2qNU3JaRKHHcVTkLikkDLnGJz8dTribUcCb_tImiaO2c7touhsoMKG9L14NgDx-lttwPCd6fn-Q/s1600/Fig+2.tiff" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Fig 2 | Exhibit in the old Launch Pad gallery. Copyright© Science Museum</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The new Launch Pad [fig 3] was redesigned for children
aged 8-14, and accompanying adults. The exhibition team absorbed the current
learning literature [including for example, George Hein<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
Howard Gardner<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
Kevin Crowley<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>],
looked at international best practice [especially at the Exploratorium in San
Francisco] and conducted endless testing to develop exhibits, that invite
open-ended, multi-user, exploratory kinds of behaviour. New Launch Pad welcomed
its millionth visitor within 10 months.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Fig 3 | The new Launch Pad gallery. Copyright© Science Museum</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As another example of the importance of formative
testing, take our recently opened <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">'atmosphere’ gallery'</span>,
which tackles climate science [fig 4].</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Fig 4 | atmosphere gallery. Copyright© Science Museum</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we came to create displays about climate change research
included a small-scale test of visitors’ understanding of terminology and the researcher
started to map out the mental models that visitors were bringing to the
subject. We found out that the visitor’s understanding was at an altogether
different level than the exhibition team [led by an eminent climate scientist]
had supposed. The mental model showed that visitors had a high level of prior
knowledge about the impacts of climate change, for example rising sea levels
and melting ice caps. However, there were gaps in people’s knowledge and
understanding of some of the key terms and processes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For example, visitors believed their own prior
knowledge of the causes of climate change to be sound. However, when probed it
was apparent that they had misconceptions, such as a believing that a depleted
ozone layer has a direct causal link to global warming. This knowledge of
audience understanding helped the exhibition team to create content that
extended knowledge and challenged misconceptions<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When
it comes to developing new ideas, prototype evaluation is crucial and we do it
with interactive exhibits, interpretation, new technologies [such as object
engagement apps] and online content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prototyping allows us to take risks in innovation and creativity – we
can test ideas in the relative privacy of development rather than on the public
floor and succeed [or fail] interestingly [and cheaply]. I can’t help feeling
that these experiences are among the most valuable evaluations to share. An
example is the research we conducted to develop instruction labels for
interactive exhibits in Launch Pad. We realised there was a problem for
visitors understanding how to use some exhibits correctly. For example they
were using the ‘turntable’ exhibit as a roundabout rather than experimenting
with their body position to explore conservation of angular momentum. We needed
an interpretation solution that solved this barrier to engaging with the
exhibit properly. The video label project used a combination of academic
literature review and original research to create a solution. Inspired by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Gelman </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica-Oblique; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica-Oblique;">et
al.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica-Oblique;">[vii]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">and Stevens and Hall<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
who wrote about the value of presenting hints and concepts through moving-image
media</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, we worked
with a resident PhD student and a group of placement students to develop and
test four different prototypes of a visual label. The final video labels show a
short clip of a member of staff using the exhibit correctly, footage of the
science phenomena from the real world, and a couple of lines of simple text,
and they are played on large screens so that people can absorb the instructions
while waiting for their turn. Video-labels are a completely simple and original
answer to a recognised problem [fig 5]. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Fig 5 | video label, turntable exhibit, new Launch Pad. Copyright© Science Museum</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">But what about summative evaluations? Should
we share these?</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Summative evaluations [which explore how well an
exhibition - or other kind of project - meets its objectives against its target
audiences] might look more promising for publication: they are usually more
extensive, have complex triangulated methodologies and often very long and
detailed reports. But I’m uncomfortable publishing these in their raw form. Not
because I mind what they say – some of our best ideas come from things that
don’t work - but because I think they are hardest for other people to make use
of as they relate so specifically to the gallery. Tracking studies, cued and
uncued observations at individual exhibits, dwell times and satisfaction
ratings are very site specific. And for me the impact isn’t in the report or
gallery being evaluated, it’s in the cumulative learning that feeds back into
the institution. I always see summative work as front-end work for the next
project, and I think we genuinely achieve that at the Science Museum. <span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The problem is
that it’s usually done through the knowledge accumulation, training and
advocacy of an internal audience research department and that’s hard to
translate into documentary form. This is where we have to do better. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">What
format is best for sharing, and with whom? </span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The format for sharing should meet the audience needs.
But which audiences, and what type of information is most useful to them? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To try and answer these questions, here are some of
the ways The Science Museum is planning to share our work across the museum
sector. I think this is an area for much further discussion, and I’ve commented
on each method to contribute to the debate:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Training |</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Often it’s not evaluation findings but expertise
that professional colleagues are after. Here, training is the better
format and we’ve had a good response to evaluation and prototyping
workshops at ecsite and Visitor Studies Association Conferences, but there
are no cross-sector systems for encouraging and developing practitioners’
skills in research and evaluation. Should that be a priority?</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Peer networks |</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> The web is a great tool for sharing with
peers, and we have developed the Sharing Expertise section of our website
to do just that <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/sharing_expertise.apx">http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/sharing_expertise.apx</a>
This focuses on our practice rather than evaluation, including what we’ve
learned from 15 years of running children’s sleep-overs, tips on
developing science dialogue events, and lessons from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Talk Science</span>, a five-year project delivering
teachers’ Continuing Professional Development [CPD] around contemporary
science debate [fig 6]. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Fig 6 | Teachers participating in the Talk Science Professional Development course. Copyright© Science Museum</span></span></td></tr>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Conferences |</b></span></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We often present the newest
work at museum or science centre conferences, in the UK and the States, and
keep in touch with international best practice that way. But I wonder whether
presentations which are so momentary and ephemeral are easily embedded in the
field? And work presented to specific sectors, such as science related
institutions, may not find its way to the broader cultural sector: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a missed opportunity.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Self-publishing</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> is another option - we are
planning a detailed audience research website - and I do like the idea of
posting on the growing number of knowledge portals, for example: the VSA
[Visitor Studies Association], <a href="http://iseevidencewiki.org/index.php/Main_Page">iseevidenceWikki<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></a>and ASTC [Association of Science Technology Centres] <a href="http://www.exhibitfiles.org/">Exhibitfiles</a> </span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span lang="EN-US">[on which we published the Launch Pad video labels work]. </span></span></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But informal feedback seems to suggest that take-up of
these is patchy. How are readers and contributors to choose which to use? As a
reader I’d also like a quality filter [such as peer review] so I can be sure
case-studies are sound and generalisable.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Academic papers</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b> |</b></span> Academic papers are a powerful way of
sharing learning. Writing them forces us to contextualise on-the-ground evaluation
into a general research question, and reading them helps us embed original
research in reliable academic literature. And peer review must provide
some assurance of quality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">But how many of we practitioners regularly read
academic literature?</span> Recent Wellcome Trust funded research found
that out of 29 senior science communication professionals surveyed, none
had read any of the top 10 cited literature related to their field<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[ix]</span></span></span></span></a>. Nevertheless, academic rigour and reputation is important to us and I
will always look for opportunities to publish in this way.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Academic collaborations |</span></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Building relationships
with university departments can also lead to fruitful outcomes. Academics
provide access to current thinking and the newest methodologies, as well
as routes into joint research projects [and funding streams] and potential
co-publications. An informal reading group organised by staff at King’s
College, London, provides a forum for us to discuss our work with
colleagues from museums such as the V&A, British Museum and Tate, and
it is always useful to have bracing discussions about our current
thinking.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Practitioner’s guides and manuals</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b> |</b></span> These provide an
alternative dissemination format. One of the best practitioner’s guides
I’ve seen is the San Francisco <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/partner/ape/ape_intro.html">Exploratorium’s
Active Prolonged Engagement (APE)</a> manual, which uses rigorous research
to tease out what makes visitors stay longer and engage more deeply at
interactive science exhibits in a ‘<span style="color: #95b3d7;">how to... ’
</span>format. It was a big influence on the success of our Launch Pad
gallery.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">An example of where sharing was planned for and funded
may be useful here. In 2003 the Wellcome Trust funded ‘Naked Science’, an 18-month
pilot project to inform the programme of adult controversial science dialogue
events planned for our new Dana Centre. As usual the project included
evaluation – we tested experimental events from puppet shows to science
theatre, punk science comedy to genetics board games, as well as exploring
adults’ attitudes to controversial science and working out how we would define
and measure dialogue. Unusually though, the project also included funding for
sharing our findings externally. To do this we developed a ‘<span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">do-it-yourself’</span>
guide for anyone wanting to set up their own science dialogue events, and
produced a detailed report with all of the research findings. You can find these
on the Dana Centre website here <a href="http://www.danacentre.org.uk/aboutus">http://www.danacentre.org.uk/aboutus</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, might including sharing activity in
funding bids may be the most effective way forward? </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Is one solution a secondment to
disseminate findings?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In conclusion, my feeling is that we should be working
towards a more systematic way of gathering and sharing evaluation and best
practice across the cultural field, but while that develops we are best off
sharing in all kinds of different ways for different kinds of reader. However,
this does increase the required investment of time to reflect and write, so
that we translate our research into formats that are findable and useable to
the widest audience. This time is over and above that of doing the original
research, and institutions have to commit to it. The Science Museum has delivered
some of the investment I’ve suggested in this blog by giving me a secondment to
concentrate just on writing and publishing research findings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s now my job to identify the most important
and interesting findings from the past ten years of audience research and
translate them into the most effective sharing formats. My question to myself
is how much can I get out there in the next six months!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Author | Kate
Steiner, Head of Audience Research, The Science Museum | <a href="mailto:kate.steiner@sciencemuseum.org.uk">kate.steiner@sciencemuseum.org.uk</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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of recent Science Museum Group evaluation publication: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Birchall, D., Henson, M., Burch, A., Evans, D., &
Haley Goldman, K., 2012. Leveling Up: Towards Best Practice in Evaluating Museum
Games. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Museums and the Web</i> (2012):
Selected Papers and Proceedings. Eds. N. Proctor & R. Cherry. Published by
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K.: Designing accessible exhibitions, presentation, ecsite (European Network of
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Learning in the Museum (museum meanings), Routledge, (1998)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: teal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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intelligences, Basic Books, (2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Teasley S. (eds), </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica-Oblique; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica-Oblique;">Perspectives
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Sharing evaluation | don't reinvent the wheel...</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Barriers</span></span></b></h3>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For over 12 years now I’ve worked
within the museum and heritage sector in the field of evaluation and audience
research and I’m </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reasonably confident the sector can now see the benefits of
evaluation. However, I</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> often feel
frustrated at the barriers that we, as museum professionals, collectively seem
to have raised, which often prevent us from sharing what we find out from the
evaluation process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are still
reticent about telling others what hasn’t worked, we still ask the same old
questions, and we don’t look internally or externally as much as we could for
useful data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just don’t seem to learn
as well as we potentially could from the experiences of our colleagues. Recently
a colleague suggested that perhaps it’s just part of the human condition that
we need to keep asking the same questions of museum audiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does this suggest we need reassurance or is
it, fundamentally, about the fact that we believe our organisations are so
unique we don’t feel we can apply what others have found out about their
audiences to our own situation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does it
feel easier to keep asking the same questions rather than spending time
applying someone else’s research to our own organisation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
come to the conclusion that breaking down the barriers to sharing is much more
than the question of whether we publish our findings. Many museums already do
this really well, e.g. the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-gallery-research/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Victoria and Albert</span></a>,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> who commission a lot of research and put reports on
line and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/visitor-research/index.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Natural History Museum</span></a>,</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> who share evaluations of exhibitions and learning
programmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we need to do
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Understanding</span></span></b></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We know that carrying out evaluation provides
evidence about how projects and programmes are meeting aims and objectives and
encourages on-going project improvements. We know it can</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">act as an excellent tool for
telling others about the great work being done in the sector, enabling us to
share lessons learned with colleagues. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evaluation
can help the project team and participants feel like they ‘own’ the project</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, it</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> can develop relationships with visitors
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don’t carry out any evaluation we could</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> w</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">aste time</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> and</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> money</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, p</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">roduce
something that we can’t change</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, l</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">ose interest from our target audience,</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> and</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> waste an opportunity
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through the whole evaluation process e.g. the East of England Museum Hub’s </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/shares/resource_34.pdf">Evaluation
Toolkit for Museum Practitioners</a> and the Smithsonian Centre for Education
and Museum Studies has just set up an online community of practice </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">around evaluation, which looks
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Facilitating a focus group at the Grant Museum of Zoology as part of the London Museums Hub Project ‘<i>Say it again say it differently’</i> 2004-2006.</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fear </span></span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we understand the
benefits of evaluation and how to do it, but why are we not sharing what we
find out through the evaluation process more effectively? [see image]<span style="color: #548dd4;"> </span>One of the important factors may be that many of
us are still reticent about telling others about what hasn’t worked so well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really understand the fear behind this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many reasons we w</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ant to portray projects,
programmes and events in the best light, to secure future funding or to retain
professional standing, but in its purest sense evaluation should be seen as an
opportunity for us to learn and improve our professional practice. It should
not be done to point fingers or assign blame. Rather it should help create a
culture where we are able to take risks and share what hasn’t gone so well.
Only then can we learn and move forward as a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sector. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Re-packaging</span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I think a possible way
forward is to re-package the data already held within organisations and think
more strategically about how we plan evaluation. The organisations I regularly work
with are often surprised with how much data they actually have once they start
looking! Recently, working with the Education and Interpretation teams in a
heritage organisation a colleague and I tried this as a practical exercise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some initial hesitation, followed by discussion
and deliberation, the team realised they could pull out useful audience information
from their existing evaluation data which they could put to efficient use in planning
future projects and programmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
the next step would be to work with two or three similar organisations to share
audience consultation and evaluation data around specific audiences. Maybe a
group of museums could agree some overarching research questions so all the
evaluation and audience consultation work they do individually could collectively
feed into answering these questions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Facilitating a focus group at the Brunel Museum as part of the London Museums Hub Project <i>‘Say it again say it differently’</i> 2004-2006.</span></span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Let’s be confident about what we know</span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As
a profession we need to be confident about what we already know. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am often asked to find out the barriers
secondary school teachers have in taking their students out to museums. I can
safely say that I’ve asked a lot of teachers this question and I know what the
answers usually are, so I encourage the organisations I work with to ask
something which might be fundamentally more useful<span style="color: #548dd4;"> </span>[see
image]. A recent project with The National Maritime Museum [NMM] in Greenwich took
this a step further when they asked secondary teachers what the NMM could do to
help teachers advocate internally for a museum trip with their students. Should
the NMM guarantee that the school could bring a whole year group at once or guarantee
specialist input from a member of museum staff for the visit? Should they
provide evidence of impact on attainment targets or information that highlights
the benefits of learning outside the classroom? The Museum plans to share the
results of their research with the sector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Having the confidence that they know about the barriers teachers have to
visit the museum with students has enabled the NMM to find out new information
which will ultimately improve their school offer. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Evaluating with children at Bromley Museum as part of the London Museums Hub Project <i>‘Say it again say it differently’ </i>2004-2006.</span></span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Sharing documents is not enough</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As
a committee member for the London Museums Group there are certainly more
conversations we can have as to how </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Share London</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, the
London Museums Group online forum for sharing practice, can help us to share
evaluation and audience consultation findings more widely. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we need to remember that posting our analysed
and interpreted evaluation and audience research data might not be enough and
more work and conversations need to be had about how we stop reinventing the
wheel.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span></b>Ultimately,
time is always precious, and if we can stop asking the same questions, use the data
we already have and share our findings more efficiently we [and our audiences] can all only benefit in the longer term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Author | Nicky
Boyd, Museum Consultant [Audience Research & Evaluation] and LMG | nickyboyd@btinternet.com</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">mages</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> |</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">all photographs were taken by J. Neligan
during focus groups as part of the London Museums Hub project <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i>Saying it
differently </i>2004-06</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For more information
on the project please go to: <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Corporate/About-us/Regional-Programmes/Publications+and+Resources.htm">http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Corporate/About-us/Regional-Programmes/Publications+and+Resources.htm</a></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Golden Rules |
Evaluating Evaluation</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m
quite new to the world of evaluation. When I went part-time at the <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/">Museums Association</a> a few years
ago, as well as becoming a partner in the <a href="http://www.museumconsultancy.co.uk/">Museum Consultancy</a>, one of the
people I hooked up with was Christian Heath at King’s College London. We were
both surprised that in spite of the millions spent on summative evaluation, it
seems to have had a rather limited impact on practice. We wanted to find out
why – and we wanted to find out what evaluations could tell museums generally
about making engaging visitor experiences.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We
devised a project called <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Evaluating Evaluation</span> and raised some money to do it
from two of the main funders of museum evaluation: the Wellcome Trust and the
Heritage Lottery Fund. You can read a little more <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/comment/01062012-why-evaluation-doesnt-measure-up">here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We’ve
spent much of 2012 immersed in evaluations, mainly of permanent displays in
museums and galleries, with a few from science centres and historic buildings. I
soon came across <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/eric_jensen/">Eric
Jensen</a> from Warwick University, a man on a mission running a series of <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/news/scd/publicengagement/">seminars</a>
to encourage evaluators to use more rigorous methodologies. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And,
at first, I thought that the reasons why evaluations weren’t better shared and
compared was because of methodological problems. But, as the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Evaluating
Evaluation </span>investigation progressed it became clear that even if all evaluations
used perfect social science methods they still wouldn’t have a huge impact.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As
Nicky Boyd says, there are institutional and organisational issues that prevent
evaluation being shared and used to its full extent. Evaluators often come from
outside the museum, or have a relatively marginal role inside it, and so do not
have a big influence; project teams disperse after completing their work, their
knowledge often disperses, too; few museums have proper systems for recording
the findings of evaluations and feeding their lessons into future work [although some, such as the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/visitor_research.aspx">British
Museum</a>, do]; in the case of summative evaluations of permanent displays,
which we focused on, it’s often simply impractical to make remedial changes to
a complex gallery.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As
our project got started, some evaluators got in touch and told us how
dissatisfied they are with the way some museums approach evaluation. They feel
museums often prepare lousy briefs, expect far too much for the available fee,
have little idea what they are going to do with the evaluation once complete
and confuse evaluation with advocacy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This
latter point is crucial. I think summative evaluation can be expected to play
four conflicting roles. First is the role we’d all say is the most important:
to help the project team learn from their work and improve their future
practice. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Second,
the similar but subtly different role of supporting learning beyond the project
team, or in the wider sector. Here, the fear mentioned by Nicky Boyd comes into
play. Project teams can be reluctant to expose their failures – sometimes even
within the institution they work for.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Third,
most summative evaluation comes at the end of an externally funded project and
is a funder’s requirement. There’s a real risk that this confuses evaluation
with the funder’s systems for monitoring and accountability. Unless the funder
and the museum have a very trusting relationship, it’s likely that the
evaluation will be under pressure to ‘prove’ to the funder that the museum met
all its objectives.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Finally,
in similar vein, some museums don’t want evaluation at all – they just want
good news that they can use for advocacy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I
fear that because of the organisational issues, it will be hard for the sector
to move to a position where it can realise all the potential benefits from
summative evaluation. [I should stress that our focus has been on summative
evaluation; the problems seem fewer, and the benefits easier to realise, in the
case of front-end and formative evaluation.]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After
reading dozens of summative evaluation reports I have to say that my main
feeling is one of disappointment that they actually tell us rather little about
what visitors actually experience. There’s lots and lots of information in
summative evaluations, much of it very interesting, but little of it seems
actually that <i>useful</i> beyond the
museum that commissioned it – and in some cases it might not in fact be that
useful even there.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sorry
to say, if we’re looking for ‘golden rules’ about how to create great museum
displays, I don’t think we’ll find them in summative evaluations. [It may be,
of course, that the golden rules in fact don’t exist.]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Some
evaluators have suggested that museums might move slightly away from summative
evaluation towards purer audience research. Perhaps, for example, a group of
museums could jointly align all the evaluations they commission to address a
consistent set of research questions. Then, over time, comparable data would
build up and we might gain some solid empirical evidence about how to better
engage our audiences.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>Author | Maurice
Davies is a visiting senior research fellow in the Department of Management at
King’s College London, a partner in the Museum Consultancy and Head of Policy
and Communication at the Museums Association | <a href="mailto:maurice.davies@ntlworld.com">maurice.davies@ntlworld.com</a></b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">A blog by Anna Salaman, Head of Formal
Learning, Royal Museums Greenwich</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">
(incorporating the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
Queen’s House and Cutty Sark)</span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Evaluation is good… isn’t it?</b></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before
exploring some of the reasons why we might not be sharing, or joining up our
thinking around evaluation across the sector, it’s useful to think about why we
are doing it, and whether or not it’s a good thing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In
order to give evaluation value, we must, of course, value audiences. In the
last 20 years the museums sector has come a long way in its relationship with
its audiences. Learning is now at the heart of everything we do; consultation
and participation underpins our interpretation strategies, the object is no
longer ‘king’ but a focus for conversation between the museum and its visitor,
museums are no longer places to passively receive packages of knowledge and
perceived wisdom but rich arenas for skills-building, nurturing understanding
and inspiring creativity. They are welcoming, social spaces where everyone can
happily enjoy a cup of coffee and a chat without the pressure of reading every
label, aren’t they?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sometimes
they are – and there are many wonderful examples of this, but often they are
not and, it is often coherently argued, neither should they be. As a fully paid
up member of the fraternity<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7789320169049292154#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> my
vote is always audience-centred. But I cannot, hand-on-heart, say with full
confidence that this is the view of all my colleagues across the many
departments here, or across the sector as a whole. And, if we are still
debating the place for learning, the audience and participation, then perhaps
we are a long way from being able to adopt a united approach to evaluation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Are we still learning how to evaluate? </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Let’s
assume we do, as a sector, value evaluation. There is, after all, much evidence
to support this, with strong investment in evaluation strategies and
consultative planning and development from many leading institutions. But it
appears that expertise and confidence in these disciplines is still growing and
has yet to be fully embedded as standard practice across the sector. Many of us
are, all too often, going back to first principles and replicating practice
every time we begin a new piece of work when the answers are often already
there if we know where to look for them. I wonder…</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How
many institutions have a permanent evaluation team?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How
many institutions prioritise audience and evaluation research over content and
collections research?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why
national projects such as the <a href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/our-priorities-2011-15/children-and-young-people/museums-and-schools-programme/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Arts
Council England funded Schools and Museums</span></a> initiative require partners to
undertake individual evaluation rather than evaluating the project as a whole? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do
we value practice-based expertise as highly as research-based expertise?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This
is not an exercise in finger-pointing, simply a reflection that perhaps we are
still learning how to evaluate.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Sharing is good…isn’t it?</b></span></span></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Why aren’t we sharing..?</b></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So,
if we are still learning how to evaluate as a sector, can we be expected to
know how to share as a sector? Or to have the confidence to share something we
don’t fully understand or embrace? Is it that we won’t share, or that we simply
can’t? Or – most likely – a bit of both?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At
this point, it is important to point out that there is actually some sharing
going on. Strands of recent <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/home"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">MA</span></a>
and <a href="http://www.gem.org.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">GEM</span></a> conferences, the <a href="http://visitors.org.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Visitor Studies Group</span></a> training and academic
studies from leading centres in evaluation and Museology [such as Leicester and
Warwick Universities], as well as individual organisations have all had a good
go. In my own field of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">museum learning</i>
I have found colleagues from other institutions only too willing to share both
their practice and their findings – a quick email or phone call has often
yielded fantastic results and, in many cases, built new working relationships.
However, a quick Google search has been less successful. Perhaps all this
points not to a lack of willingness to share but, perhaps, to a lack of
opportunity or structure for doing so in a coherent and sustainable way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here
at the Royal Museums Greenwich [RMG is made up of: <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">National Maritime Museum</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/queens-house/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">The Queen’s House</span></a>, <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Royal Observatory</span></a>, and the <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/cuttysark/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Cutty Sark</span></a> and has a 2
million-strong collection] we have gone on a bit of an evaluation journey [or
‘voyage’ – we are maritime museums after all] over the last few years. In fact,
we are still on it, still learning, and long may the voyage last. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even
within my own organisation we have struggled to share: Did your evaluation ask
the right questions for my project? Do I need to fully understand the project
before I can fully understand the evaluation? But that’s a digital project and
this is a whole gallery! Have I got time to look into this in depth with
everything else going on? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The
answer is, of course, a Royal Museums, Greenwich-wide evaluation strategy which
all of these findings feed into and out of. To make sense of all our visitor
research and map it in such a way that evaluation for the Maritime Art
Collection and the Queen’s House yields useful information for the Royal
Observatory and Astronomy; that evaluation outcomes for digital interactives in
the National Maritime Museum are useful for Cutty Sark. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And
if that is indeed the answer, then can the wider museum sector effectively
share evaluation without a nationwide strategy?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">An
interesting ‘sharing’ analogy came recently during the research and front-end
evaluation <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">[oh yes!!]</span> phase of a forthcoming
Children’s Gallery project here. In a workshop with Jo Graham [<a href="http://www.learning-unlimited.co.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Learning Unlimited</span></a>] we learned
about the characteristics of different types of play and the evolution of
‘sharing’ in children. Very young children don’t share – they play in parallel,
often the very same game with the very same toys, each brumming the same red
car along parallel pieces of carpet. As pre-schoolers they become more social
and friendships begin to form. By Key Stage 1 they are developing a strong
sense of friendship and are often well-versed in the joys and advantages of
cooperation and sharing [well, some of them…]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Perhaps,
as a sector, we are in our infancy when it comes to evaluation. Perhaps as we
grow into confident, well-adjusted, joined-up evaluators we will cease working
in parallel – following the same methods and asking the same questions as each other
– and begin to cooperate and collaborate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or
is it all far less interesting than all this – is it simply a question of
resource? Which brings us back to ‘value’ again. Do we value evaluation highly
enough to invest the necessary time, money and people in strategic, effective,
long-term, joined-up evaluation? In this age of austerity for the cultural
sector it is still, sadly, commonplace for learning to bear the brunt of the
cuts. If this is an indication of where our priorities lie then perhaps that
says something significant about how much, as a sector, we value evaluation and
the voice and opinion of our audience. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On
the bright side, however, key funding organisations value evaluation extremely
highly, demanding ‘evidence’ of need for any funding application and ‘a fully
comprehensive evaluative report’ at the end of a project – often withholding
actual cash until they see it in black and white!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And
there other questions about sharing evaluation:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Is
it because evaluation is not always valued as ‘proper research’?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Is
it because we still value the object over the audience, or our own expertise
and knowledge over that of the audience?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are
we afraid that we will expose our failings and be found woefully lacking?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Should
we be sharing beyond the sector and, if so, how far? How about our recent secondary
evaluation? Should we share it with the Times Education Supplement? Teachers’
and Headteachers’ conferences? Ofsted? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are
we seen as valuable contributors to the wider [formal] learning debate?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I
feel I could go on and on and on….</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">So how should we share?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I
have recently been involved in two significant evaluation processes for the
National Maritime Museum with Nicky Boyd. One to support the development of the
Museum’s forthcoming<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> ‘Nelson, Navy Nation’ </span>gallery,
and one to, once again, try to solve the sticky problem of why we don’t get
more visits from secondary schools. Both evaluations yielded fascinating
results, which I am keen to share. But shouldn’t sharing go beyond simply
posting the reports on GEM or sticking them on our website? And are the results
really that fascinating – or just fascinating to us and the particular issues
we face? If evaluation has taught me anything, it’s to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i>‘ask the audience’</i> </span>so, answers
on a [digital] postcard please: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">would you be interested in the findings of
these evaluations and how would you like them disseminated? And have you got
any interesting stuff I could have a look at?!</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Drop me a line at:
asalaman@rmg.co.uk<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Author | Anna Salaman, Head
of Formal Learning, Royal Museums, Greenwich</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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share or not to share?</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">When
it comes to sharing evaluation for</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> <a href="http://www.thelateshows.org.uk/">The
Late Shows</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Newcastle and Gateshead’s annual Museums at Night event, the
short answer is yes, we do need to share evaluation. But how? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The
team here at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums has been running The Late
Shows for six years now. In 2007 it started as a one-night event with 14
cultural venues taking part including Discovery Museum, Baltic Centre for
Contemporary Art and the Laing Art Gallery. All the venues stayed open late and
put on free events and exhibitions, which aimed to entice a new, younger
audience through their doors [see image].</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Late Shows 2012 took place over two nights on 18 and 19 May and we had a record
56 venues in the line-up and saw thousands of visitors brandishing their Late
Shows glowsticks as they swarmed through the streets of Newcastle and
Gateshead, visiting as many venues as they could [see the image of the Late Show
CitySightSeeing Bus]. Venues which took part in the 2012 event included the
Castle Keep, Mushroom Works artists’ studios and Newcastle’s Literary and
Philosophical Society. We achieved 30,000 visits across The Late Shows venues
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so many venues and artists taking part, and The Late Shows being a free,
non-ticketed event, it has the potential to be a difficult or expensive project
to evaluate but we have tried to keep it as simple as possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the marketing and evaluation for The Late Shows is carried out in-house by the
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums communications team. Through our
evaluation we aim to not only evaluate our marketing and track visitor
satisfaction [see image of happy visitors] but also to see whether we have
achieved various aims which include encouraging people to visit venues they
have never been to before and inspiring them to return again throughout the
year.</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every
year we work with a fantastic team of Late Shows volunteers [see image] who act
as ambassadors for the event, welcoming visitors to each venue, keeping track
of visitor numbers and, of course, handing out those sought-after glowsticks.
Another of their key tasks is to encourage people to fill in our incentivised evaluation
survey which they can do online [using Survey Monkey] or by returning a
freepost form after the event. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
findings from our evaluation are essential when it comes to shaping subsequent
years’ events. It’s vital that the<span style="color: black;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">results are shared</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>with all 50-plus participating venues so they can take the
feedback into account when they programme their event for next year. We have
seen everything from ghost tours and snake handling to mass drawing and
performance art in The Late Shows programme over the years and each have played
a role in making The Late Shows what it is – a showcase for the outstanding
creativity and culture here in the North East. However, no venue wants to take
the risk of programming something blind, with no knowledge of the audience and
what they value. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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important thing about The Late Shows is that it’s a collaborative effort, with more
than 50 different venues coming together to make one of the biggest events in
our region’s cultural calendar. That can only work if<span style="color: black;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">we share what we know. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">All
venues are sent the headline survey results</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>so they can see who came, which venues they went to and
what they thought of them. Comments on specific venues or artists are shared
individually, although many of the venues then choose to share these with each
other. There is close, two-way communication between The Late Shows team and
staff from all the venues so that experiences can be passed back and forth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We
also<span style="color: black;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">share specific
feedback</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>with some of our
suppliers and partners – for example, feedback on the free Late Shows bus
services, which transport visitors around the cities on either an open-topped
bus or a mini-bus, is shared with the bus drivers so we can work together to
tweak the route or timetable the next year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are also keen to<span style="color: black;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">share
knowledge</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>more widely. Every
May, thousands of venues around the country – and the world – stay open late
for Museums at Night. We are in conversation with Culture24, who promote the
Museum at Night festival nationally, to share our experiences with other areas
whom may wish to put on a partnership cluster event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it’s so important to know the answers to those quantitative questions – did we
meet our visitor target? Did we reach our target audience? - every year, I find
that some of the most enlightening feedback comes in the form of the visitor
comments we receive via social media and through Survey Monkey, which can
really capture the spirit and atmosphere of The Late Shows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We
always include an open ended question so that people can give us any
suggestions they might have for improving the event or let us know if there is
something they especially enjoyed or didn’t like. One of my favourites from
2012 was:<span style="color: black;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘It was an
amazing event. I took my two children (both under six) and they had an amazing
time learning to make a clay pot on a wheel, making masks, decorating tiles,
learning circus skills and seeing magic. My son said "it was the best
night of my life". Thank you!'</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">The Late Shows is a collaborative effort and with feedback like that, why
would we keep it to ourselves?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Late Shows 2013 takes place on 17 and 18 May 2013. <a href="http://www.thelateshows.org.uk/">www.thelateshows.org.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Author | Bill Griffiths, The Late Shows
Project Manager </b><b>bill.griffiths@twmuseums.org.uk</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>All images courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums</b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Leaping over crocodiles</span></b></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Evaluation, can it work? … I think it can.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> </span> </span>I have worked for several years as a museum
evaluator for Renaissance East of England, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service and as a freelancer. I started with a distinctly academic approach,
having studied an MSc in Research Methods and was often surprised at what
passed as hard evidence in the museum sector– even in studies commissioned from
professional researchers. Research or evaluation reports can make poor use of existing
theory and literature, may contain only minimal explanations about approaches
to sampling, data collection and data analysis and, when making claims from
numerical data, do not always use of appropriate statistical methods.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is, therefore, a case for
improved skills around evaluation in museums, especially in critically
evaluating and reviewing research. This way we can be more demanding when
commissioning research and more proactive in using what evidence is already out
there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A further issue with evaluation
in the sector is that it often leans towards advocacy and has an emphasis on
demonstrating success rather than identifying what can be built on and improved.
The reasons for this are understandable as museums are not a statutory service
and are often focussed on making a case for their own worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The issue, however, is not just the quality
of the evaluation, but about how it is able to influence practice.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is a thorny issue and, in the past, I have felt that the gap between a
formal research report and its implementation might as well be a leap over a
crevasse filled with hungry crocodiles.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: small;">Nile Crocodile (<i>Crocodylus niloticus</i>), Norwich Castle Natural History Collection</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have begun to realise that the
word ‘evaluation’ has different meanings and that there are different levels of
evaluation, from formal research studies to what might better be termed
‘reflective practice’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When looking for
evidence that evaluation makes a difference, the focus is often on the big
decisions and on matters of policy – but what about the smaller things that
affect our everyday service delivery? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How evaluation is implemented
will depend on its ‘level’. When an individual is involved in evaluating their
own work, or has a distinct connection to it, they often have the power to make
the changes they deem necessary first-hand. On the other hand, where the
evaluation concerns structures, policy or a number of stakeholders, implementing
change is more complicated and the level of ‘proof’ needed to persuade an
organisation to change is higher. Therefore, when planning evaluation, we
should start with the organisation’s structure and ask ourselves in each case
‘How will the decisions be made here?’ and ‘What is the level of proof needed to
instigate change?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it comes to getting research
findings implemented, I have had a lot to learn in my own approach. By and
large, staff are too overloaded to be interested in the nuances, caveats and
methods of an evaluation - preferring concrete recommendations or clearly
defined concepts. Working in this way can take some nerve, because it involves
sticking your neck out and making judgements, and as an evaluator you are all
too aware of the limitations of your data. It is also important to find a
number of ways of getting the evaluation findings across, and nothing’s better
than getting out there and talking to people, whether informally or formally. .
Doing evaluation is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to bringing
about change. Evaluation needs ‘embedding’ within systems – this might mean
involving the evaluator in a project team, ensuring there are built-in cycles
of service review, or having a clearly laid-out process for implementing
evaluation findings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So where is my evidence that
evaluation can work?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When writing this
blog I asked around our organisation for examples of how evaluation had been
used – here is my evidence.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: small;">School children enjoying a trip to Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">‘I always try to speak to the lead teacher
during an event so I can gauge how an event is working and will actively ask
for an honest (not just pleasing) evaluation. Often, I find that with
written evaluations people are reluctant to criticise or reflect on what
could be improved. My fear is that if the event didn't work, the school might
not tell us and simply not book again. We also always hand out evaluation forms, most
of which are returned completed. In either case, when we receive
comments which indicate something is amiss, we will contact the teacher direct
and either explain why x,y or z happened, or ask for ideas to improve whatever
didn't work. This follow -up is essential because the teachers feel that
their comments are valued. ,They become part of the planning process and
are more likely to book with us again. Over the years, our
evaluation and assessment procedures have enabled me to build up good working
relationships with local teachers and our events have benefited from this
process.’ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PD: Time and Tide Museum</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>‘When I first started running events in the
Norwich Castle Study Centre, I had a very small budget for marketing. I
imagine this is how a lot of smaller museums find themselves. I did a
basic feedback form for the first ten or so events, asking
people how they found out about the event as well as how much they enjoyed it
etc. The information about how much they enjoyed it was pretty much
useless in a way, because I just had 60 people telling me they enjoyed it!
Which is, of course, great, but it didn't help me change anything. The
evaluation was far more useful for targeted marketing as we were quickly able
to see what worked (whether people found
out about the event from the local paper or e-postcards). In the
end I saved a lot of money on flyers and it meant that when we were
arguing for support from marketing, we were able
to advocate those services. So I suppose the moral of that story is to
only ask questions where you care what the answer is, and that you can use the
results from….I think the most
powerful and immediate evaluation is probably verbal. It is so informal,
that we often overlook it. I have realised this from working with the
public on a daily basis. Every time someone asks a question about what we
do, or why something is the way it is, or enquire about information, you
sub-consciously make a note to ensure that information is available in future -
whether you include it in a tour, change a bit of text, or raise it yourself as
a question. So I suppose that comment is about having an attitude which
seeks feedback and investigates it.’</i></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RB: Norwich Castle Study Centre </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘A great example of how audience data has
changed a museum in Great Yarmouth is when we did some mapping of how visitors
moved through galleries before we did any redisplay work. I compiled a
floor plan and gave this to the Front of House Team. I then asked them to map ten
visitor movements per day for three weeks. Using the results of this data (as
well as written feedback) it seemed that a high percentage of visitors
used part of one gallery as a corridor, walking straight through rather than
looking in some half-bays to one side. When we were designing the new gallery
plans, this data gave me the ability to persuade staff that we should break up the long corridor
space by adding an extra wall and enhance the interpretation – this made
the new Romans gallery more of an individual statement space rather than just
part of a bigger room.’</span></i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JO:
Time and Tide Museum</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘The repeated requests for a guide book in
the visitor book enabled us to make a good case for this - and we now have a
lovely inexpensive souvenir guide. I regularly look at the 'What could we
improve section' of the visitor book to check we're not missing anything or to
pick out and rectify anything that has obviously gone 'pear-shaped.’</span></i>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CT: Strangers Hall</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-style: italic;">‘Evaluation is very important to the way I
work as an individual, and I encourage my team to do likewise. I rely on feedback forms primarily, but also
other sources like ‘Trip advisor’. I use
evaluation to find out if there is a problem, and if so I'll sort it out right
away. As a manager I always read all feedback as it helps me keep up to date
with what's going on.’</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evaluation is deeply linked to
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Author | Amanda Burke, Evaluation Officer</b> | </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Amanda.burke@norfolk.gov.uk">Amanda.burke@norfolk.gov.uk</a> / 01603 493657</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Norfolk
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Image
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Museum redevelopment plans being discussed. Image courtesy of National Museum of Wales</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">At St Fagans:
National History Museum we have recently been given the good news that we have
funding for a major redevelopment of the Museum. </span><span lang="EN-US">The</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> overall goal is to transform St Fagans into a world-class
national museum of history that is driven by the needs of its users [see image
above] . With funding from the Heritage Lottery Grant and Welsh Government, the
work of constructing a new gallery and refurbishing the existing galleries will
start next year. Both funders emphasise the importance of participation and
listening to our users. The question is: How do we reconcile this with the
usual pattern of front-end, formative and summative evaluation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we are to place users’ needs at the heart
of the museum’s work, surely we must develop more adaptive and participative ways
of carrying out evaluation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharing with staff</span></span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most museums are
practised at producing visitor studies, reports and gathering data about visitors
and non-visitors. Very rarely, however, are their findings shared and discussed
across the whole range of staff, let alone made relevant to the work of
individuals. We believe that participation begins ‘within’ the museum and at St
Fagans, we have tried to do this by involving over 70 members of staff in the evaluation
and consultation processes of preparing our plans for redevelopment. Staff trained
as scribes and facilitators for focus group discussions, and conducted surveys
to track and map current visitor behaviour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may not be as scientifically rigorous as
work undertaken by professional evaluators, but it has exposed a wide range of
staff to first-hand interaction with visitors and audiences we find hard to
reach. This in turn has led to informed internal discussion about how we need
to move forward. The findings were perceived to be less unfairly critical than
reports produced by outsiders, yet harder to dismiss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharing with other museums</span></span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Research reports
published online by museums such as <a href="http://www.glasgowlife.org/">Glasgow Museum</a> and the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> are a useful
source of information for practice that has worked well elsewhere. The majority,
however, are summative evaluations published long after the project is live,
and driven by the needs of funding bodies. Their purpose is mainly to persuade
funders of the success of projects and not necessarily to impact on present and
future practice. How is it that most museums, despite many years of evaluating their
work, are still producing fundamentally similar gallery displays and attract
the same types of visitors? Are we evaluating the wrong things? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the issues
is that there is little consistency of approach across the sector. The
methodologies used and the knowledge gained often resides with external audience
research companies and consultants. Comparing data can therefore be challenging.
It would be a real step forward if museums could find a way of working together
to find a common approach, share methods and standardise questions so that
research findings can be shared and inform the whole sector. Could a central place
be provided for all museums to store and post recent research that would avoid trawling
through numerous websites, blogs and publications?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharing with community partners</span></span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our ambition at
St Fagans is to be a participatory museum on a national scale, providing
opportunities for all the diverse peoples of Wales to participate in creating
and sharing content. Our inspiration is the work of Nina Simon (<a href="http://www.participatorymuseum.org/">www.participatorymuseum.org</a>) who
defines such museums as a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘<i>multidirectional content experience, a platform that connects different
users who act as content creators, distributors, consumers, critics and
collaborators.’</i> </span>There is very little evaluation of participatory
projects in the museum world. If museum objectives are changed by the participation
of users, then the process of evaluation needs to be ongoing and adaptive. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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potential partners in other organisations who already have expertise in this
area. Through our involvement in the Paul Hamlyn initiative,<span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.phf.org.uk/">Our Museum: Communities and Museums as Active Partner</a>s</span>,
we are already learning how to involve others in our decision making – to share
authority and ways of working with voluntary and other third sector
organisations who have much deeper experience of working with those we
traditionally find hard to reach. The lessons learned from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Our Museum</span> will inform work with our other
participatory forums, representing all our target audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These will help
us to create a programme of evaluation, considering how we evaluate the success
and impact of the process as well as the product. We </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">need to create measuring
techniques that are useful to both museum and community partners, which can be
implemented by in-house staff, volunteers and community partners. We are in
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shared honestly, as they happen, with our colleagues in other museums if we are
to </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">create truly culturally
democratic museums and reduce inequalities in participation in the cultural
activities we provide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are at the
start of the journey and you can follow our progress at <a href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/">http://www.museumwales.ac.uk</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Richard Daniels, Archivist at the Stanley
Kubrick Archive,at work talking about <i>Inspired
by Kubrick</i>, a project that opened up the Archive to University of the Arts,
London [UAL] students.</span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: orange;">Primary School to Being an Archivist</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">My entry into the world of archives was
pretty much accidental. My first memory of using an archive is a visit to the
public archives in Bedfordshire and Nottinghamshire as part of a primary school
history project. At that time I, of course,
had no idea that working in an archive was a possible future career option and
in adult life, when I was introduced to the idea of archives as a career choice,
I had pretty much forgotten my earlier trips to archives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In 2001 I graduated from the University
of Hull with a degree in history and politics and was then faced with that
difficult decision all graduates have <i><span style="color: cyan;">‘what do I do now?’</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span></i>I
didn’t want to be a teacher or a civil servant; the usual graduate recruiting
organisations [banks, NHS, prison service, military etc] were not appealing. At
the time I lived in Hull, and looking through a local paper a recruitment fair
in Manchester caught my eye. I booked a place and went along and it was also a
good excuse to visit my brother and catch up. I wandered around the fair
aimlessly, not particularly inspired by anything until I came to the <i>Manchester Archives and Local Studies</i>
table. I spoke to them about the profession of an archivist: <i><span style="color: cyan;">What was it and what did it involve?</span></i> They told
me something that I always repeat to people now when I am asked about the
profession: <i><span style="color: cyan;">‘No
day in an archive is the same. If you enjoy learning new things and have an
interest in this and that then archives is the perfect profession.’</span></i> So,
that was it. I decided to investigate this profession further and organised to
see some archives in action. These
visits convinced me being an archivist was the career for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The next step was to find an archive
position. I started to apply for archive
assistant jobs. My career started at the London Borough of Brent Archive in a
great role where I worked part-time as an Archives Assistant and was funded by
the Borough to study an archives post-graduate course at UCL. The Borough’s Museum
Service managed the Archive and it already had a reputation for museum outreach
and access programmes. My colleagues and I added on to this by involving the
Archive in these programmes. The archivists and I worked closely with the
Museum’s Education Officer organising innovative events and activities around the
Archive aimed at a wide target audience. We introduced events to attract
younger audiences and those from ethnic minorities who were not used to using
or donating to archives. The belief of the need for archives to reach out to new
audiences and the importance of widening access has stayed with me throughout
my career.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alongside working at the Brent Archive
and studying I worked on on and off a project at the School of Oriental and
African Studies. The working culture there
was very different because it was in an academic environment and academic
researchers mainly used the archive. There,
I found that there was less of a requirement for outreach and access to the
archive. Instead the role required me to be knowledgeable about the resources
available both in the archive and with external bodies.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">In this particular archive, where
the main collections are from missionary societies, I needed to know where
other missionary collections could be found, or sometimes family and personal
papers of particular missionaries featured in the SOAS collections. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: orange;">Arriving at the Stanley Kubrick Archive</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In 2007 I saw a job advertisement for a
Stanley Kubrick Archivist at the University of the Arts, London [UAL] and as a
qualified archivist and a major film buff it was, to me, the perfect job. I had
read years before about the Kubrick Archive in a weekend magazine piece but at
the time of applying for the post I had no idea what it contained in depth and
what its function actually was. So, knowing that I was no expert in Kubrick,
during my interview I concentrated on my experience of working with archives; opening
up access and managing projects. Success… I was offered the job and began in
October 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At UAL my colleagues and I are
committed to making sure that staff and students across the whole University can
access the archive and we work hard to embed archives in course modules. Students
being able to use an archive as a research tool or for inspiration is something
I feel passionate about. It surprises me
that in Hull, where I studied and where of course primary research is essential,
no course module used any of the superb collections held in the University’s
archives. Sadly, it was only after I had
graduated and was pursuing my own archive career that I learned about the
richness of the archives at Hull. So it is great to work with equally
passionate colleagues to make sure that as many UAL students are aware of the
archives here and of other archives in general. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In 2008, as part of the commitment to
open up access in an innovative way we established an elective course <i>Inspired by Kubrick</i> for 2<sup>nd</sup>
year BA students from many different courses (such as Film and Television,
Design for Advertising, Sound Arts and many more). The students were broken up
into groups and given a brief to use the archive in a research format to inform
and inspire a joint project proposal which they had to present at the end of
the course. The elective incorporated lectures by professional guest speakers (David
Thorold, curator, Elizabetta Fabrizi, curator, Joy Cuff, model maker on
2001: A Space Odyssey, John Ward,
Steadicam Operator on Full Metal Jacket and Gay Hamilton, actress in Barry
Lyndon) who had either worked on projects in the archive or had worked with
Kubrick himself. The project resulted in students creating short films,
posters, advertising campaigns, sculptures, books and soundscapes all inspired
by the Kubrick Archive [see image]. The
elective proved to be very popular and grew from 20 students taking part in
2008 to 40 students 2010 and it is always the first elective to be fully booked
each year. Alongside the elective, introductory
session are delivered to many other students from across the University and these
sessions are also available for external parties: student groups and archive
and library professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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And Archive</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-small;"> created in response to the Stanley
Kubrick Archive. This student’s artbook uses archive material to answer
questions raised in fan letters to Kubrick.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: orange;">From Protecting and Preserving to Access and Outreach</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I often think it’s easy for archivists to
learn so much about protecting and preserving objects that we become too
attached to the materials themselves. Rather than seeing objects as information
sources for users we only see the intrinsic value. We should never forget our users and the
purpose for which we keep our collections.
Like cataloguing, the organisation of outreach events should be informed
by the users or potential users. When I train cataloguers I always say <span style="color: cyan;">‘<i>the trick is to
think to yourself - if I was looking for this what would I write in the search
box?</i></span> When organising outreach events, the target audience must be
considered too. When asked by people
what being an archivist entails I often say <span style="color: cyan;">‘<i>well, I look after old stuff and get it out
for young people’.</i></span> I like to think that I put as much effort into
the latter as I do the former. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If
you would like to visit the Stanley Kubrick Archive please contact via email: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="mailto:archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: cyan;">archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk</span></span></a>
or telephone <span style="color: cyan;">020 7514 9333.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: orange;">Author:
Richard Daniels, Archivist, Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the
Arts London</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">The Real Hustle</span></span></b></h2>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">‘Getting into the museum sector can be tough, but small museums
offer fantastic opportunities for early career professionals’</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">, suggests
Dale Copley, Museum Officer at The Fusilier Museum London.</span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">‘LMG gets lots of enquiries from people
wanting to know how they can get into the museum sector, and as I'm in the early
stages of my career I've been asked to share my professional journey in the
hope it will help others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">My current job at <a href="http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/">The Fusilier Museum</a> was created
three years ago as part of a <a href="http://www.hlf.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx">Heritage
Lottery Fund</a> redevelopment project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;">Picture of The
Fusilier Museum London, Tower of London (c) with permission Mike Daines
Photography</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">My role is very varied. Now the new galleries are open, my
responsibility is primarily to deliver a diverse range of outreach activities
associated with the project. These
include a community curated temporary exhibition programme, an ongoing
documentation and collection care improvement project and developing and
managing a volunteer body. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve also had the opportunity to work
on our first Accreditation bid, write numerous funding applications, oversee a
collection move, answer research enquiries, give tours and write and implement
a lot of policies. Working for a small
museum gives you a broad skill set and lets you develop strategic skills much
earlier in your career than you would be allowed to elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I had realised quite early on that I
might want to work in museums and this really helped. I had already done a lot
of work experience whilst studying for a history degree in Cardiff. On my first day volunteering at the <a href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/">National Museum of Wales</a>, they gave me
a car vac and sent me to vacuum a life size model of a woolly mammoth in the
natural history gallery. Admittedly, at
the time I didn’t realise there were bonifide pest management reasons for doing
it, but the reaction of the visiting public had me hooked. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Like many people who work in museums, I
believe that museums are a force for good in society. I didn’t want a job which made the rich
richer and the poor poorer. I love
history and so having the chance to use my undergraduate degree, and to get my
hands on the stuff, really appealed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I also loved that the people at
National Museum of Wales came from a variety of academic backgrounds – and I
have continued to be drawn to jobs which put me in contact with people I
wouldn’t otherwise meet. I am the only
person in my organisation who isn’t a Fusilier.
As the <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">LMG Share
scheme</a> testifies museums are full of fantastically supportive people. They
will help you get into the sector if they can. In my third year at University I
wrote to 7 people in the sector asking how I could get a job like theirs. All 7 wrote back. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">On their advice, I enrolled on the MA
in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at <a href="http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/postgraduatestudy/taught/">The
University of Manchester</a>. As I write
this, the sector is evaluating the value of the Museum Studies MA and I
understand that as tuition fees increase students will have to think very hard
about undertaking a further degree, but I believe there is a lot of value to an
MA in Museum Studies and I don't think I would be working in a museum if I
hadn't done it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, my MA introduced me to core
museum skills. It also made me look at museums critically and underpin my
opinions with theory, but it was the practical stuff that has been the most
useful in terms of getting work. Two of
my favourite bits of advice; ‘the best way to improve your own practice is to
visit other people’s museums’ and ‘if you want to stay employed, you’re going
to have to be prepared to move’. I met
some great contacts, but probably more importantly I made some great friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">An important part of my MA year was the
compulsory work placement which we undertook for course credit. I did my work placement at a Contemporary
Arts Centre in Manchester called <a href="http://www.cornerhouse.org/">Cornerhouse</a>. I didn’t know anything about contemporary art
but I could see the placement they were offering was exciting. I led a project with a visiting Indian artist
on a commission, interviewing local women about their experiences of street
harassment (Eve teasing) and then creating an installation for the café/bar
area of the Arts Centre. It was a
concrete project I could put on my CV.
When it comes to any sort of work experience, I think you get further if
you worry less about the organisation offering the placement and more about the
placement they are actually offering. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">As so often happens, the success of my
placement meant Cornerhouse offered me some hours in the office. It was a foot
in the door and I was soon working there full time as the Exhibitions
Assistant. Cornerhouse is a dynamic
organisation with an 8 week changing exhibition programme, so in my 18 months
there I saw six exhibitions from start to finish and it was a brilliant
grounding in the basics of exhibition practice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I left Cornerhouse when the
organisation restructured and the equivalent job became more administrative. I went to a HLF funded start-up at a <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.hungate.org.uk/">medieval art centre</a></span>
in Norwich. I had never been to Norwich,
but following that advice about 'being prepared to move' I went for the
interview and a month later I moved there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">This was my first experience of being
the only 'museum' employee. I worked
directly for a body of Trustees and with a range of external stakeholders
including Norwich Cathedral. It was a
huge learning curve. The centre had very
little money and no secure revenue. At
Cornerhouse I had been used to begging and borrowing equipment and expertise to
get exhibitions delivered, but it was much harder without the name of an
established gallery behind me. Slowly, the
centre became known locally, some events started to work, more people started
to visit but as it got closer to the end of my contract it was clear there was
not funding to continue the position. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I never thought I would work in a
Regimental museum, but when the Fusilier museum job was advertised I could see
that I had relevant experience and there was a chance to expand some of the
skills I had been developing. I was so
glad I was broad minded about it. I
certainly hadn’t thought about it before I got the job, but Regimental
collections are, at their heart, social history collections. Only a generation ago everyone knew someone
who had served in the army in the World Wars or through National Service, which
makes Regimental collections relevant to a lot of people. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: cyan;">A veteran from the Korean war takes in the new museum galleries
following the 2010 redevelopment </span></span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial; text-align: center;">(c) The Fusilier Museum London</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">After three years, I probably know more
than most about the Fusiliers and their history -a documentation project will
do that to you - but what I am most convinced about is the unique and important
role that small museums play and what an asset they can be to the sector. So,
young museum professionals, small museums need you! And they can offer you so
much in return.’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Author, Dale Copley.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">NB: This blog was written by Dale Copley as the Museum Officer at the Fusilier
Museum. Dale is now the Collections Manager at the Waterways Museum. The Museum Officer at the Fusilier Museum is now Stephanie Killingbrook.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In May 2012, the National Museums Directors’ Council
(NMDC) published a short paper, <a href="http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/media/documents/images/world_collections_final_report.pdf">World
Collections</a>, which illustrated the breadth and impact of our members’
international work [see image 1]. We wanted to show that working
internationally has become business as usual for many museums, and that there
is a huge variety and depth of engagement taking place. You might be aware of
the high profile loans which attract headlines but there are hundreds of
projects beyond those. There are scientists at the <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/index.html">Natural
History Museum (NHM)</a> working with colleagues across the world to study
specimens to learn more about disease-bearing insects. Teams from the British
Museum spend weeks in <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/skills-sharing/africa_programme.aspx">Nigeria
and Kenya</a> providing training on how to pin coins, fold textiles and
re-build storage facilities. At any time within the walls of UK museums there
are <a href="http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/sharing-skills-and-collections/international-activity/">worldwide
visitors</a> from museums, universities, arts organisations and specialist
organisations (like archaeological societies), leading workshops, studying
collections, giving lectures, assisting with exhibitions and community
programmes and being trained in collections management. Similarly, people from
UK museums are visiting colleagues across the world to take part in the same
sort of activities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Some of this I knew already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between 2008 and 2011 I was the International
Manager at the British Museum and part of my job was to run the World
Collections Programme. This was a £3m DCMS-funded project to developing
long-term projects in Africa and Asia using six of the UK’s largest
collections: the British Museum, British Library, Tate, Victoria & Albert
Museum (V&A), NHM and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. Science Museum re-developed its
popular </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">hands-on interactive gallery
Launchpad in 2007, the exhibits were donated to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">the Unizul Science Centre in South
Africa. Following the success of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Launchpad Outreach Programme in the
UK, the Science Museum entered into a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">partnership with the Unizul Science
Centre.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Image courtesy of NMDC World
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At the British Museum I found
that getting to know colleagues who were working on similar projects was
crucial when working somewhere new or trying to do something particularly
tricky. For example, when I was working on negotiating the loan for <i>Afghanistan:
Crossroads of the Ancient World </i>I used the network created by the World
Collections Programme to make contacts and pick the brains of those who had
worked in Afghanistan [see image 2]. I met helpful British Embassy staff and
found someone in the Afghan Embassy in London who could help me translate
letters into Dari. It was a mutually beneficial group. For quite a while I knew
exactly how much it cost for an Iraqi curator to get a UK visa (78 Jordanian
dinar), the best flight route from Basra to London (via Amman) ad what to write
in a letter to persuade the relevant Iraqi Ministry to let a museum director
come to the UK. Unless these were likely to be the answers to my million pound
question on <i>Who Wants to be a Millionaire</i>, it was pointless keeping this
information to myself. We would co-host visitors with the British Library –
Iraqi, Kenyan and Ethiopian scholars and curators who we knew would be
interested in each other’s collections. These sorts of experiences have
influenced the second aspect of NMDC’s international project: to find ways to
better share knowledge and experiences across the museum sector.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">2. This object is one of the
illicitly traded Begram Ivories which the British Museum helped repatriate to
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">International work is, by nature, complicated and any
step that can be taken to make it less so is surely a good thing. So, in these
straightened times, if a museum wants to develop a partnership in China or
apply for EU funding, doesn’t it make sense to talk to someone who has already
done it? If a museum spent 18 months being the first UK institution to mount a
large touring exhibition to Indian venues (as the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-in-south-and-southeast-asia/">V&A
</a>has) then they are likely to have learnt a great deal about the most
effective ways to negotiate, the best couriers for that environment and where
the decent hotels are in Mumbai. Thankfully the V&A are keen to share the
answers to these sorts of questions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Developing international partnerships is no longer
the preserve of the very largest London-based cultural institutions. There are
hundreds of international partnerships involving museums of all sizes across
the UK. For that reason, the V&A and NMDC are organising a session at this
year’s <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/conference/14052012-conference-2012-thursday">Museums Association Conference</a> (Thursday 8<sup>th</sup> November, 12.20pm – 13.20pm)
to discuss the practicalities of developing partnerships with museums in India.
We have participants from the V&A, National Museum of Scotland, the British
Library, Indian museums and the <a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/india.htm">British Council</a>, and the
focus of the session is on sharing good practice and steering clear of trouble.
Given the large Indian community in London, the opportunities for working with
Indian museums and the wonderful Indian objects in London museum collections, we
really hope it will be helpful to London museums whatever their size.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the meantime and in the spirit of sharing, I
thought I’d finish with a list of five things I learnt – some of it by luck rather
than judgement: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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partnerships in which you can invest will probably yield the greatest
success;<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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achievable</span></b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;"> - </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t start big – work up to something. Get to
know people and how they work with something smaller;<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">Ask for advice -</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The British Council is a great source of
in-country guidance and there are many other organisations who work in
specific countries or on different art forms and academic subjects. Look
up from your project and think who else would be keen to know you are
doing this; <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">A little tip -</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Blue is a neutral colour for wrapping
diplomatic gifts; books relating to your collection, museum or London make
good gifts... <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;">Shopping -</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> almost every delegation or visit I arranged
wanted time off and directions to Primark. I decided this was one part of
the trip they could do unaccompanied! <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you have any questions about international work,
please see my offer on the <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">Share London</a> website.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Author: Katie Childs, Projects and
Policy Officer, NMDC and LMG member.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I specialise in sustainable business models and
practices and in this guise I was asked by The Cinema Museum in Lambeth to help
them review their business model and buy their current home from the South
London & Maudsley NHS Trust. I`d
been prepared to have to win hearts and minds on the wider sustainability
agenda but was stunned how much sustainability was already reflected in The
Cinema Museum’s aspirations and actions.
At the time I wondered if this was rare museum practice but increasingly
I am seeing that it is not!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Let’s consider financial sustainability. A topical issue in these dire times, where
competition for limited resources is high and trying to find innovative ways of
working better than ever and at a fraction of the cost is nearly everyone’s
focus. One of the solutions offered to
this problem is to </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">`become a social enterprise’</span></span><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">but</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">I get annoyed when museums are
invited to think about this because most of them are already operating a social
enterprise business model. A</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">nd really well.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Let’s
look at how and why.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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what is ‘social enterprise’?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The old definition of social enterprise was created
in early 2001 by the Department of Trade & Industry and was based on the
notion that a social enterprise was a socially beneficial organisation that
derived in excess of 70% of its income from trading. The charitable/voluntary
sector lobbied against this definition because it excluded and denied many
organisations access to the large funding pools and support available to ‘social
enterprises’ at the time. This lobbying
heralded a decade of ongoing renegotiation of the definition of ‘social
enterprise’. The lobbying organisation’s purpose was to gain access to funding
that was ring fenced for social enterprises and the politician’s purpose was to
extricate themselves from the hot water their ever changing definitions kept
dipping them into. However, the leaders of the social enterprise movement’s
purpose was to direct all parties towards consensus around an accurate definition
that worked in practice and was not ‘ever-changing’. It was and still is a
political minefield and the debate trundles along albeit around a much looser
definition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">There
is nothing new about social enterprise.</span></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Essentially
social enterprises are organisations that engage in some commercial activity in
the way in which they deliver social, environmental, educational or cultural
benefit. The profits of which are used
to increase the level of benefit the organisation delivers rather than retained
for personal gain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">So,
how is a museum a ‘social enterprise’?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Clearly the museum complies with the above
definition. The evidence on the ground is powerful; museums demonstrate an
impressive array of profitable income streams and cost saving measures that most
‘non-for-profit organisations’ can only dream of. Museums</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">deliver on
government contracts and generate income </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;">fr</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">om shops, cafes, educational
programmes, image loans, membership, hire of facilities and film shoots as well
as being expert fundraisers.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Museums are also expert in running on
a shoe-string, working with volunteers, and collaborative working; they understand
the environmental impacts of their activities and have done pioneering work on
energy saving.<span style="color: windowtext;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Museums have a strong sense of why they exist. They adapt to create activities and income
streams that match their aims and comply with the core values of their public mission
statement. The social capital that emerges from their work and the social
benefit that they deliver epitomises financial, social and environmental
sustainability. Many museums embrace sustainability in its wider context by working
with local supply chains and developing environmental practices that parallel
their strong ethical culture Museums engage warmly and well with the human
spirit and deliver a finely balanced combination of financial, social,
educational and cultural profits. This is complex product development and social
enterprise brand management at its best. Indeed, it is clear that museums’
business models are characterised by the type of innovation, diversity and
robustness that ensures financial sustainability and effective ‘social
responsibility’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Museums
as a business model of well-being and sustainability</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At a time when people no longer trust high street
banks, have lost faith with hollow commercial brands and are tiring of thin,
poor quality public services a transactional gap is opening up between people`s
time and money and what they reasonably and rightly want in return. People don`t have this consumer frustration
with the museum sector. Museums are
places where people find quality and a depth of experience where they are
encouraged, respected and challenged. The museum experience is one of well-being
and calm enrichment. It is unique,
improving and heart warming. It offers value
for money. Because of these factors the sector is trusted and its consumers confer
respectability around its products, services and wider offerings. The public’s affection towards museums is an extraordinary
business phenomenon and one that few sectors enjoy with their customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The museum’s business model is based on
sustainability and is a classic example of the successful early adoption of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">'</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">social
enterprise model'</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. So, my protective hackles rise when I hear people asking a museum if
they have ‘thought about becoming a social enterprise’. Museums are amongst the earliest pioneers! Indeed,
if I were advising the museums sector at the moment I might be suggesting that
they add <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">'</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">social
enterprise business advice'</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> to their range of products and services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Learn the language of social enterprise so that you
can enter the debate, access support offered to social enterprises and address
business-planning questions. You will
get more value from advisors, consultants and board members if you can clearly
articulate your business model and its relationship with sustainability and
social enterprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t be alarmed by terms that you may be
unfamiliar with; they are often names for activities or models that you are
already implementing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Share
offer</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Are you the CEO of a museum? Do you have any questions on the social enterprise
business model and how it links to sustainability and museums? Please see my
offer on <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">Share London</a> and I will be happy to answer any of your questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Author |</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> </span> LMG Member Katharine Ford, GK Partners and
consultant to The Cinema Museum, Lambeth. <br />
With thanks to the Cinema Museum and Katharine Ford for in kind support by
hosting LMG events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I strongly believe that
archives play a significant role in local history and for the past seven years
I have been the Paper Conservator at Westminster City Archives [see image
below] working on projects encouraging community engagement and dispelling the
notion that archives are dusty papers stored in a sterile conglomerate of
depressive looking buildings. A qualification in Museum Management from
Greenwich University and training at MOMA in New York have helped me to see how
to use collections as working tools</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and increase accessibility by developing
innovative in–house and outreach projects, exhibitions and workshops. Face to face interaction with user groups in
the community is important in increasing access to the archives so I actively interact
with Westminster’s diverse residents encouraging
community cohesion. I’d like to
share with you a story of a project that had limited funds but was organised
with passion and commitment; The People’s Record Project - Westminster. Various
interactive activities brought Westminster’s residents aged 4 to adults
together opening up new connections and relationships within the community and
engagement with the archives.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Opening up access</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Three years ago I noticed an open application call
for the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://peoplesrecord.org.uk/" title="External website - link opens in a new window">The People's Record</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Project, a national scheme
funded by Arts Council England but initiated by the now abolished Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">It was created to showcase and sustain community
projects of museums, libraries and archives as part of a comprehensive record
of the 2012 Games. T</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">he fact that I am Greek was, in my mind, more than sufficient for me to
develop a project with a theme such as the Olympic Games based on my country’s
cultural heritage and this is how The People’s Record Project - Westminster was
born. So, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">w</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">ith the enthusiasm of a
five-year-old I applied for funding, successfully received a small grant and started a survey asking
residents about their opinions of the 2012 Games and their memories of the Olympics
in 1948. There were mixed feelings about London hosting the 2012 Games but residents’
memories of the previous Olympics were positive and gave a unique insight into Westminster’s
community at the time. These memories and much more are hosted on the People’s
Record project website. <a href="http://peoplesrecord.org.uk/items/show/3090">http://peoplesrecord.org.uk/items/show/3090</a>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 27px;">Alongside developing
the project I was searching the archives for Olympic material and, to my
excitement, I discovered hidden gems (the official report of the British
Olympic Association and the programmes for the Opening and closing ceremonies
of the 1948 Games) that could be used as hands-on objects for community
activities [see picture]. Clouds briefly
overcast my sunny mood as I realised I would need additional resources to
deliver the project, but the clouds vanished as I was successful in getting
grants totaling £4,000 from MLA, NADFAS Westminster and the A G Leventis Foundation.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Developing
relationships</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">There were many aims of
the project: to open accessibility of our Olympic archives to local communities
and inspire learning for all: to increase awareness of the history and values
of the Olympic Games encouraging participation in sports: to enhance the
profile of the archives, promote our services, and explain to residents how
they can learn about their past by visiting us: to foster collaborations and
encourage sustainability with new community partners. So, how was I going to
deliver projects to hit all of these aims?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I started by identifying the target audiences and planned how to
effectively reach them. I made contact with relevant local groups such as primary
schools, Youth Clubs, Open Age, Age Concern, Day Centres for older people and
Community Centres and arranged consultation sessions to develop the programme according
to their needs. The start was rather challenging because in Central London
community groups are spoilt for choice but with zeal, commitment and the
sacrifice of personal time, I arranged one to one meetings with the different
groups, which proved highly successful. New relationships developed and each
groups’ commitment to the project was there from the very beginning. As I
plunged into delivering the project more community groups and schools became
interested and, by word of mouth, new collaborations started.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I’d now like to share with you examples of
how, even with a small amount of funding, this project enabled Westminster City
Archives to develop new community relationships, intergenerational activities volunteer
opportunities, new loans partnerships and my professional skills. The project
also created an oral history archive.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">New
collaborations | new skills</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">New collaborations involved
working with NHS Westminster, Community Access Westminster [see picture], SCOPE
and Pursuing Independent Paths (PIP) to deliver different activities: drawing
and T-shirt workshops, sports days and teaching photography skills to several
disability groups. The objective was to raise aspirations and promote the
achievements of the Paralympics. For me
professionally, this has been an amazing and very rewarding experience and I
have gained many new skills working on activities designed specifically for
people’s individual needs.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Working with groups with people with special needs from Community Access Westminster </span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Intergenerational
work</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">A series of
intergenerational workshops between elderly residents who attended the 1948
Games and pupils from a local school proved to be of significant importance.
The residents shared unique memories with children, inspiring them to create a
series of fascinating artwork [see picture]. In addition, after-school families’
workshops were organised and these proved equally successful.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Working in collaboration with Burdett-Coutts primary school <br />and the kind contribution of the Clarke family</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Community
outreach</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Having built an important
network with previous and new partners, I started delivering presentations about
the ‘History of the Games’ and assembling art workshops to engage hard-to-reach
groups. This included working with Bangladeshi, Arab and Chinese communities
[see image] and elderly groups such as Open Age, Age Concern and Day Centres.
To maximise the benefits of community cohesion I worked with the Cardinal Hume
Centre for Homeless People and with Westminster Arts delivering workshops for
older people with mental health issues including dementia.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delivering an Olympic presentation for the Chinese Community Centre</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span> </td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Oral
history archive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Oral history was the seed
of this project and the creation of a new oral history archive was one of its
main successes. I recorded the
reminiscences of athletes and viewers at the 1948 Olympic Games and both proved
to be a big hit. I contacted the athletes with the help of the British Olympic
Association and I managed to contact locals who had watched the 1948 games through
advertisements in the Council’s official magazines. A selection of their
recollections can be accessed on Westminster Council’s website:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/leisureandculture/olympic-memories/">http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/leisureandculture/olympic-memories/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Volunteers
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From the beginning of this
challenging but rewarding journey I had on my side a number of unique
individuals who go under the generic term of ’volunteers‘. This term is far from describing the
enthusiasm, skills and experience that these people share. Their behind-the-scenes
contribution, working hundreds of hours, helped me to conserve original Olympic
material and prepare for the schools workshops [see image]. Without their
passion this project would not have been able to progress. I value volunteering
as a mutually beneficial activity.
In return for their time and enthusiasm they gained new and interesting
skills; learned from each other, enhanced their communication abilities (especially
the young volunteers) and built their teamwork confidence, all attractive
attributes for a future employer. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As one of our young student volunteers from the United
States says: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘<i>My
experience at the Westminster Archives Centre was life changing. I came here at
a cross roads in my life and career and found a new direction. I really enjoyed
working with Georgia. Her patience and skills are inspirational. My voluntary
work at the archives has taught me many invaluable skills that will no doubt be
beneficial to me in my future endeavours.’</i></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Loans
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To ‘spice up’ the
education sessions, two Olympic torches were loaned and used as hands-on
objects in conjunction with our archival materials (</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1948 Olympic Games stamps, the illustrated London News from the 1908
Olympics, etc). The torches loaned were the iconic 1948 Games Olympic Torch
loaned from the Lloyds Banking Group Archives [see picture] and the 2004 Greek
Olympic torch belonging to the Greek Olympian Emilia Tsoulfa. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The iconic 1948 Olympic torch was a loan from Lloyds Banking Group Archives. <br />Photo features </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Cllr Steve Summers and 1948 Olympian Jack Rowling (football team)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">The whole project has been such a serendipitous journey. Even
in its early stages the project was awarded
the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> ‘Inspire</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mark’</b> from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LOCOG
Committee </b>[see image] as an exceptional education project. The project was also
s</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">elected by ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inspire Mark’</b> as
one of the top 10 out of 400 in London in an exhibition in May at the City Hall
(GLA). In addition I have been selected by
Inspire Mark as the project leader who has '<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">gone the extra mile</span>'.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Further dissemination of the
project includes monthly reports to Councilors and several Council Committees. I recently gave a talk at the Collections
Trust conference (26 June) and I had very </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">positive feedback from delegates who
attended. They found the project story
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able to be flexible and adapt along the way resulting in me being able to offer
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disabled people. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is obvious that by
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sustainability with new partners takes a lot of confidence, perseverance and
dedication, but it is absolutely essential. Be patient - it does actually pay
off. Skill sharing and collaborations does
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commitment to carry on. What I find most exciting is the possibility of learning
new things. There is an incredible amount of knowledge to gain through these
projects. When I look back at what we have accomplished I am amazed. I feel I
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hints I have shared. I am offering
mentoring session on <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share" style="mso-comment-date: 20120713T1004; mso-comment-reference: JR_1;">Share London </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">so if you are interested in starting community
engagement projects or involving volunteers in collections care please do
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Archives Centre and LMG Member.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The People’s Record Project</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 115%;"> will be presented
in a community exhibition in SW1 Gallery <a href="http://www.sw1gallery.co.uk/">www.sw1gallery.co.uk</a>
from 25 July - 30 August 2012, increasing community cohesion and celebrate the
Games. Please do go along and visit.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Archives, NHS Westminster, Bangladeshi, Arab and Chinese communities, Open Age,
Age Concern and Day Centres for older people in Westminster, Cardinal Hume
Centre for homeless people, Westminster Arts, organisations for people with
disabilities such as Community Access Westminster, SCOPE and PURSUING
INDEPENDENT PATHS, St Andrews Youth Club, Museum Libraries and Archives
Council, Arts Council, NADFAS Westminster, Victoria Business Improvement
District, SW1 Gallery and 15 primary schools in Westminster area (St Matthews,
Hallfield, St Vincent de Paul, St Vincent,
St George Hanover Square, Hampden Gurney, St Barnabas, Burdett-Coutts,
St Clements Danes, St Peter's Chippenham Mews, Queens Park, Soho Parish School,
St Gabriel, St Mary Magdalene, St Christina). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Paralympian Giles Long and Greek Gold Olympian Emilia Tsoulfa for their
contribution to the project, a group of 15 valuable volunteers from Westminster
City Archives, Westminster residents and Olympians from the 1948 Games who
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">A small stone sculpture, the Lovers’ Figurine (image below), the oldest known representation of lovemaking stood between Louise and Jill. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘For the first time in my life, I feel I’ve been listened to, taken seriously’ </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">said Louise. She’s about 15, speaks with an East London accent and began her week at the British Museum surrounded by a palpable air of apathy. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘I’ll never be able to look at the Lovers ‘Figurine in the same way again’ </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">said Jill Cook, who is a deeply knowledgeable British Museum curator with a strong passion for people and for equality.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I wanted to be a field archaeologist but quickly realised as I studied archaeology that it was hard work for little money and there’s no job security (I know it sounds like the museum sector now!) As part of my studies I had spend a bit of time at the British Museum researching in the students’ room in the Coins and Medals department and I loved the museum environment and being around objects. I decided a career in a museum was for me and wrote to fifty museums and related organisations across London enquiring about the possibility of a job. I had two responses. One was from Pollock’s Toy Museum a very pleasant ‘no’ and the other from the British Museum inviting me for an interview. So, my journey at the British Museum started with a two-month data entry contract followed by an Iron Age and Roman Coins curatorial position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One of the joys of a national museum like the British Museum is its size. It’s perfectly possible to do a number of different jobs whilst remaining in the same institution. So I chose to move from the curatorial position to one partly focussed on learning programmes. In this role I had the pleasure of setting up school programmes, community projects and a new programme of object handling in the gallery spaces. Alongside this I worked on different projects through secondments. One supported the British Museum’s 250<sup>th</sup> anniversary events. This was a privilege (the events played a small part in shaping the British Museum’s current approach to the world) but also a huge learning experience for me, teaching me that event management requires a ferocious attention to detail that I don’t possess!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But I found myself questioning how much impact I was really having so I left the British Museum for three years to work for an international development agency (a big wrench!) I learnt a lot from this experience about what’s really important (might be worth noting at this point that people in the international development sector, working with real issues of life and death, take themselves less seriously than most of us in museums) but my passion for museums and connecting through collections brought me back to the British Museum to run its community programmes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I love the British Museum. The collections are extraordinary and probably the broadest of any museum in the world. The depth of knowledge of my curatorial colleagues continues to amaze me. But even more wonderful is the fact that it sits at the centre of one of the world’s most diverse cities - a city that acts as an international transport hub and attracts people from every part of the globe. The relationship between the museum’s collection and its audiences is constantly stimulating and there are moments that show me the potential of the British Museum’s collection in London, connecting people and places through time:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">It’s been nice to share my working journey with you and if you would like advice on your museum career path or how to connect your collections with audiences in new ways in these difficult times please see my offer on <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share" target="_blank">Share London</a>. I feel honoured to do the job I do and as I look at what the museum sector has to offer I am optimistic about the future. </span></div>
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that museums are well placed to re-imagine a world where economic growth is not
the principle measure of success of a society. Museums can show that
materialism need not characterise our relationships to the world around us. A
more powerful retelling of history by way of cooperation and collaboration and
a more humble approach to the natural environment might help civic society address
pressing issues such as climate change and resource depletion. The project
suggests that museums take a more activist approach to working with communities
and use their status as places for encounters to foster local campaigns. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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far museums are able to help lead this change remains to be seen.</span></span></b></span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For some time museums have been pioneering
thinking around environmental sustainability (<a href="http://www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/">The Garden Museum</a>) and doing great
work within their communities (most local museums!) However very few combine
the two to foster the sort of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">citizenship</span>
that Matthew Taylor of the RSA says<i> ‘</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-style: italic;">helps people to be the people they need to be, to do what
they think they want to do’.</span><span style="color: #95b3d7; font-style: italic;"> </span>At The Happy Museum Symposium last
January, in typically provocative style, the Museums Association’s Maurice
Davies suggested that museums were not able to link well-being with
sustainability. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">project is seeking to create a community
of practice of UK museums committed to supporting transition to a high
well-being, sustainable society. Two of the six museums we have commissioned to
make these links explicit are:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Museum</a> is working with allotment holders, cycling clubs and transition
groups to develop displays and resources about a Victorian hydro electricity
project in a nearby tanning works. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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Story Museum</a> in Oxford has employed well-being experts and
psychologists to work with architects and surveyors to influence the sustainable
design of their new museum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mainstream culture seems to be reluctant
to question the primacy of economic growth or be brave enough (an agony for
liberal cultural professionals) to suggest to the public that lower consumption
might contribute to a kinder safer society. This mirrors a similar attitude in
mainstream politics. The Labour politician </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Caroline Flint
MP and the Shadow Climate and Energy Secretaries</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> wrote a blog for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/02/climate-debate-bills-bears">The
Guardian (02 April 2012)</a> reporting that the public were more likely to
accept climate change if policies were concerned with people’s everyday
concerns - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i>bills not bears!</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As a Clore Fellow at the Southbank
Centre in 2008 I was asked to design a sustainability programme. On the one hand the redeveloped Royal
Festival Hall had a sustainable ground source heat pump system and the Participation
Team was developing programming strands around climate change through an
artists in residence programme. The programme (run with Cape Farewell) pioneered a cultural response to climate change by taking artists to witness the impact of melting ice in the Arctic. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">On the other hand, Southbank continued to fly in artists from
half way around the world for one-off performances and relied on sponsorship from
a big oil company to support the Classical Music Programme. Here, one of the UK’s best-known cultural
centres had an opportunity to have a dialogue with itself and its audience about
the ethical dilemmas in bridging the gap between rhetoric, artistic excellence and
the leadership responsibilities of a cultural institution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Four years on, public funding
priorities seem to be driving cultural organisations to take an ever more
short-term approach. Creative Scotland recently announced that it would like to
move to<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18116738"> one-year or project-by-project
funding agreements</a>. The Department for Culture Media and Sport is driving organisations
to make the most of corporate and private philanthropy. These further
complicate the judgements made by organisations like museums in their
programming choices and their own beliefs and values. So, big institutions that
receive sponsorship from oil companies or weapons manufacturers (of late Tate -
BP and the Science Museum - BAE Systems) should be prepared to substantiate why
they enter into these relationships. <a href="http://thelearningplanet.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/next-after-museumnext/">Bridget
McKenzie, </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">writes in a recent blog that organisations should not believe <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i>'that when money directly gained from ecocide or violence is given to a museum it is washed clean.'</i></span> </span></span></div>
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face my own dilemma of balancing the Happy Museum rhetoric with the desire to develop
new work and the need to pay the increasing costs of rates and energy bills. In a blog 18 months ago I suggested that
museums might look to the <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/">Transition
Movement</a> as a means to co-operate, share resources and innovate but this
seems a long way off – even for me! And
in a recent conversation about the future of funding to museums with my local
council the chief executive talked about how this would be dependent on local
economic growth, in particular new housing development. With central government
grants cut and council tax rises politically unacceptable, the only source of
new income to fund some services would be through payment schemes such as the <a href="http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingsupply/newhomesbonus/">New
Homes Bonus incentive.</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span> I find myself arguing that one of the strongest
justifications for the continued funding of MEAL is the economic contribution
to the locality - which is over £1.2m a year. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Time banks or skill sharing schemes are
great, but they won’t pay fuel, insurance and maintenance bills for the 20 historic
buildings at MEAL. Through a Social Return on Investment study we carried out
in 2010 we know that our museum creates £4.50 of social value for every £1 of
cash invested. We are able to use these statistics to increase funding streams. But to be fully sustainable shouldn’t we be
working to convert the social value into something practical to exchange? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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great place to start is Mission Models Money <a href="http://rethink.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/community/role-art-and-culture-great-transition">re-think</a>
programme which looks at how culture can contribute to the Transition and to a
high well-being low carbon economy. In a society re-framed by an economy more
aware of its environmental limits we can expect that people will consume differently, spend their time differently, and have different expectations of their lives. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>This is all</b></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">food for thought for our Museum Act</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ivist
who will be starting in August and will be seeking a more cooperative and
collaborative approach to our engagement with local people.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Chomping on courgette
cake at the Garden Museum with </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://sustainabilityofheritage.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/a-day-on-the-dust-carts/#more-78"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Jade-Lauren
Cawthray</span></a>, the first Trainee of Heritage Sustainability, we asked: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i>can there be a scheme where museums share full-time paid staff?</i></span> We chatted
about how the <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">London
Museums Group’s Share London scheme</a> enables museums
to advertise skill sharing offers and how LMG are asking the question: what is
skill sharing, how does it work and what are the challenges? Looking around the sector the Museums
Association’s <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/collections/about-monument-fellowships">Monument
Fellowship</a> scheme is a good example of a knowledge
sharing project. A small grant (£5,000) allows
retiring staff to return to their museum and pass on specialised knowledge to colleagues. <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/download?id=322812">Sharing Knowledge:
A Toolkit</a> the MA’s guide on how to share and
sustain collections expertise and start succession planning shows:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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passion of individuals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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collections to life and empowering all staff (learning, front of house and
collections staff) to benefit from developing and sharing knowledge. [source:
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<a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/">Natural History Museum</a> [NHM] and the <a href="http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums">Hunterian Museum</a> [HM] and a skill sharing scheme they created.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It started with a
conversation. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Louise Tomsett, Curator,
Mammal Group, Zoology Department at the NHM</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Milly Farrell, Curator,
Odontological Collection at the HM</span> developed a scheme that grew from informal conversations
to a concrete but fluid, one day a week swop shop over a period of 6 weeks.</span></span><br />
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Practical skills.</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Working hands-on with objects the curators gained specialised skills
in chemistry and storage. Louise
worked with a Conservator and learnt additional skills in the aesthetic
element of object display - a key element of the exhibitions at the
HM. These aesthetic skills can be
applied to exhibition design at the NHM. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Peer networks.</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Working with a variety of professionals at the NHM, Milly gained
knowledge in loans and record management and skills in destructive
analysis, storage and object handling. When Milly got back to her office
she was able to pick up the phone for further advice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Reflection.</span> </span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Being away from phones
and emails enabled Milly and Louise to focus on a single task and gave
them the time to reflect on processes, which amplified their practical
learning. Louise says <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i>‘you can lose
knowledge if you don’t put it into practice.’</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Policy change.</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Observing the loans
officer working at the NHM with destructive loans enabled Milly to
contribute to the re-draft of the latest HM loans policy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Fluid learning.</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> The scheme responded to particular learning needs and time
pressured working situations. Louise’s days were programmed around her
busy schedule. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Knowledge sharing.</span> </span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Having the time to share
knowledge in a relaxed way was important to Louise, who says that through
the scheme ‘swapping of knowledge
is more casual, it’s at an easier rate, knowledge isn’t crammed into one
training day. </span></span><br />
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emphasize enough the significance of having the time to focus on learning
specific skills such as preservation and storage, destructive sampling,
handling large scientific specimens, aesthetics and preserving the historic
aspect of specimens through object based learning. Educational institutions are re-introducing
practical based learning. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There has been a general revival in the idea
of object-based learning. This is
central to the approach we adopt in UCL’s Museum Studies programme.’</i> </span>says
Paul Basu, Degree Programme Co-ordinator for the MA in Museum Studies at
University College London. Helen
Chatterjee, Deputy Director of UCL Museum & Collections, goes on to say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘Object based learning sessions are
excellent for providing opportunities for group work, developing communication,
team working and problem solving skills. It is essential for museum staff to
have excellent object handling skills.’ </span></i> One of the benefits of the scheme was that object
based learning topped up specialised skills and knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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work at the Natural History Museum.’ </span> </i>Louise identified how the scheme was
part of her curatorial training: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">The aim
of the scheme was to go away with the knowledge, skills and tools to deal with
a specific curation project.’ </span> </i>The Curators had focused learning
objectives that fitted in to their professional development programmes and
working practice. Konstantinos Arvanitis, Lecturer at the University of
Manchester, talks about why schemes like this are successful: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">‘When in post, museum staff often do not
have the time and the opportunity to reflect upon their own practice; so the
provision of professional development opportunities allows museum professionals
to gain a better understanding of the scope, aims, challenges, limitations and
possible directions of their work in the relevant professional and
institutional context.’</span> </i>So, in order
to turn those initial conversations into a successful scheme the participants
developed clear aims and objectives that were relevant to their own professional
working practice. Milly and Louise are
still sharing knowledge and continuing to make invaluable<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>reflection time<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>and it
is interesting to see that they have a continued commitment to the project.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>The joy of skill sharing is that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>staff are not lost - instead new
colleagues and expertise are introduced into an organisation regardless of its
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Email: news@londonmuseumsgroup.org</span></span></span></span></div>
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low cost, effective programmes to capture, share and use knowledge Lucy Shaw
will be touring the UK running four workshops: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/find-an-event/msk%2f2">Sharing Knowledge: Practical ideas that don't cost the earth:</a></span> based on the findings of the
Monument Fellowship’s scheme. The next knowledge sharing event is in Glasgow on the 11 June.</span></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">‘I work in the Mammal Section at the Natural History Museum (NHM). The section is part of the Zoology Department and has an estimated three quarters of a million objects. The key work of the NHM is taxonomy and systematics.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">People often ask what my job is and it’s rather difficult to sum it up. The role of a curator at the NHM is probably very different to some others because it’s so multifunctional and multitasking. </span></i><br />
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">To look after the collections and preserve them for the future. A curator acts as a guardian for the collections and it’s a fine line between providing access for use of the objects and ensuring their survival for future generations There is no point of having [collections] if you are not going to access them and use them but we need to control how they are used to ensure their preservation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">host academic visitors from all over the world: mostly scientists but also artists and historians. You name it, people use the collections for it. Sometimes their research isn’t linked directly with science. They might be looking at an animal for other reasons [for example] an architect might be interested in bone structure and use that as inspiration for their designs. <o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">try to digitize the collection. We have an estimated 70 million specimens in the museum, so we’ll be doing it for quite some time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>'I'</b></span>m the curator of what’s called the Odontological collection. That is a collection of around 11,000 skulls: skull portions and teeth. It’s largely animal but there is a set of human cranial remains. It’s a huge array of comparative anatomy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">I was taken on initially to document and promote the Odontological Collection. Initially, there was a lot of re-boxing. I’ve worked my way through the 3000 primates. I started with the human material first and this was catalogued and sorted in the first 6 months. Then I moved onto animal material. I’ve had to take on volunteers to help with this, and I’m gradually chipping my way through the rest of the collection.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">The collection wasn’t that well used, so I’ve been promoting it non-stop since I started and it’s now used in quite a lot of research studies; from post-doc researchers working at universities through to Master students that just need to measure a few skulls for part of their sample size for their dissertation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">I never had it in my mind that I wanted to be a curator. Apparently, I don’t remember it, but I would always drag my mother to the Natural History Museum. I liked the natural world generally. I also liked the historical side too, the voyages, collectors and expeditions. I loved seeing the museum displays and used to see people disappearing through doors and wondered where those went. I didn’t actually know about the role of a museum curator or that it could be a possible job. I didn’t know you could turn your passion into a job. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">The first time I actually worked in a museum I must have been fifteen or sixteen and that was a couple of weeks work experience. I loved the mixture of history and science. When I was at university I volunteered for half a day a week in the Palaeontology and Zoology departments working on various projects and (whilst I waited for a paid opportunity) I worked in various retail and service roles. A job became available as a tour guide in the Darwin Centre. I was in that role for two years and worked in all the Zoology curation departments as a result. This gave me a good picture of both sides of the museum, the public domain and behind the scenes. Then I was lucky enough to get a job in the Mammal Section so I have now been at the museum for almost ten years.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">‘My masters was in skeletal and dental bio-archaeology, which is basically skeletal forensics. On the back of that I volunteered at the Museum of London. They have a collection of about 17,000 skeletons and I worked in the Centre for Human Bio-archaeology helping out three osteologists who are slowly working through the specimens It was a matter of getting out each skeleton, laying it down anatomically and then recording every single bone and all the pathologies. I was still in training at that point so I wasn’t nearly at the same stage as them. I learnt a lot watching them and working in the stores as well. When I finished my Masters I found this opportunity with the Odontological collection at the Hunterian Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We can see here that Milly joined the scheme to gain Zoology collection care, loan, handling, and preparation skills. The opportunity to learn hands-on with museum professionals enabled Milly to fill in the gaps of her curatorial training. Louise used the opportunity to develop specialised skills working with a Conservator, gaining new knowledge around handling, preparation and aesthetics that can be applied to her working practice. In effect topping up specialized knowledge through practical training. Milly and Louise are not shy of long hours – their commitment and passion is evident in their description of how they came to be Curators. They are both motivated professionals taking ownership of their own career development.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Knowledge skill exchange.</span> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">‘You go away with the knowledge, skills and tools with which to deal with a particular curation project. There are already a few things I have realised I need to know more about before I can even start thinking about other projects. And there are things I have shared with Martyn that will help with his work, for example setting up a dermestarium.' [see image below and details in footnote 1]</span></i></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: orange;">Theory and practical learning. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">‘In a short amount of time, we’ve started tackling the removal of the lid off a specimen container, and all the things you need to consider for that. On the theory side we looked at the chemistry aspect; how do preservatives and fixatives react with the container that the specimen is in? What doesn’t mix with plastic? Why do things degrade and leak or not preserve? </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Last week we started work on a specimen suspended by thread. They kind of hang in the jar and have been dissected in a certain way to show a certain feature. We worked on tying, the theory of tying; so you won’t damage the specimen, and it won’t fall down over time and how to reduce the stress of thread going through a soft tissue so it doesn’t tear. We tied, suspended, and part re-resealed the specimen. It’s a lengthy process. The next stage is aesthetics, to make the seal look like a kind of tar, and we’re on the first stage of making it look like that.’ [see image below] </span></i></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: orange;">Knowledge transfer. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">‘There are few museum professionals compared to other professions. Even though our collections might be very different, no training like this is ever wasted. You can apply [the knowledge] to your own collections. There are many things that I have been looking for for ages: sources of products – suitable modeling clay for example, and Martyn has just said ‘Oh I get it from this place’. This [knowledge sharing] is hard to quantify but it is invaluable. Every museum has got their own specialisms and being able to transfer this knowledge or knowing who to contact is valuable, because we can’t know everything. We’re all exceptionally busy but perhaps, though we haven’t done something like this in the past, we should do more of this kind of linking with people in the future. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Both of us [NHM and HM) have found out things about each other’s collections. We both have specimens relating to a particular collector. Researching that collector which would take us [NHM] days, months to do but it’s already been done at the HM. Being aware that we’ve all got the same problems and knowing who to contact helps, as you don’t want to re-invent the wheel. Because we are all pushed for time and resources anything that can help you work on the collections and save time and follow best practice is always going to be helpful.’</span></i></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: orange;">Destructive analysis. </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">‘I was asked to help with some destructive sampling on one occasion by Roberto Portela, a Curator in the mammals team. It is a very rare occurrence. We had to pluck some hairs out of different allocated parts from the skins of civets. It involved plucking 20 hairs out with tweezers, which felt completely wrong because it’s everything you are taught not to do as a curator. But the researchers needed the actual hair follicle in order to test these hairs against the hairs that they were getting from the traps.’</span></i></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">New colleagues: peer networks.</span> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">‘I dealt a lot with the loans officer, Tracy Heath, and she was fantastic. I actually called her just last week to ask for some advice about sending some bone samples off to Australia. Although obviously they [HM and NHM] are completely different institutions, you do kind of almost feel like they are a colleague.'</span></i></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: orange;">Thinking outside the box.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: cyan;">‘The work undertaken at the NHM is directly linked to the work that I am doing here So, for example, the cataloguing, re-storage and re-boxing of items at the NHM has changed the way I do my job here. It has enabled me to think a little bit more outside the box. Since going to the NHM I suppose I’ve thought of doing things in different ways. For example, I am drafting a policy for researchers which will take into consideration all of the specific details of their visit from arrival to departure. I’m more aware of these issues now, as the NHM have so many researchers every day and we only have them once a week or once every other week.’</span></i></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">To advertise skill sharing opportunities please go to <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup/share">Share London</a> </span></b><span lang="EN-US"> or contact Rachel Mackay, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:r.mackay@nhm.ac.uk">r.mackay@nhm.ac.uk</a></span><span lang="EN-US">, Share London Representative about your ideas.</span></span></div>
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Julie Reynolds, LMG Blogger<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Louise Tomsett, Curator, Mammal Group, Zoology Department, Natural History Museum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Milly Farrell, Curator, Odontological Collection, </span><br />
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LMG <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">Share London</a>
Representative talks about her journey to the <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/">Natural
History Museum</a>.</span></b></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking at my CV, my motivation
for working in museums may seem obvious. I studied medieval history at
university and I worked weekends in a visitor attraction. Combined result - a
museum career. Actually, it wasn’t that well thought out. I embarked on a career in museums accidentally,
working weekends in a café in a small science museum in Dundee. Like all professional
catering jobs, it was strenuous, but somewhere in-between the paninis and
hotdogs, I discovered I loved being able to go behind the scenes of the museum.
When visitors were asked to leave at
closing time, I had the privilege of being able to stay and enjoy the museum behind
the closed doors. It’s a very selfish
reason for getting into a museum career and I’ve never found anyone who admits
to having the same motivation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With this passion for the
private museum experience I volunteered for Historic Scotland at St. Andrews
Castle. I wanted to wander about when nobody else was there. It appealed to all
my senses; my love of history, the dangerous thrill of being in a spooky
dungeon on my own and my innate sense of vanity that gets annoyed if I have to
share my experience with the general public. Even now, I get annoyed if I go
somewhere as a visitor and it’s busy; it feels unfair. This utter selfishness doesn’t
go unpunished. One evening locking up at the Castle I was down the mine [see
image] - incidentally the only example of a medieval mine and counter mine in
Europe - and my boss mistakenly thought I’d left the site and turned all the
lights out. It was terrifying being in the dark and alone! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, I’ve never lost
that addiction to the unique experience you get when you work somewhere and
you’re the last person to turn out the lights. At the Dundonian science museum,
as a Duty Manager, the responsibility of being in charge of a museum, being a
key holder, setting the alarms… it was right up my street!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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City work, is even more exciting. It’s
like being on a film set. It’s a privileged position and it never gets boring.
My first job when I moved here was in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds
[Merlin]. I was interested to see how this organisation operated, and I have to
admit that being behind the scenes was a lot of fun - for about a day. You soon
realise that you haven’t seen daylight for 8 hours and you’ve spent the
majority of your time surrounded by wax serial killers and bloody heads. Not
that the term ‘wax’ is in vogue at Madame Tussauds and, in fact, neither is the
word ‘museum’. “This is not a museum,” we were told on day one. “Museums are
boring.” <span lang="EN-US">That’s when I knew I was looking for something more</span>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shortly after that I moved
to the Natural History Museum and haven’t looked back. My job in Visitor Services
is sometimes crazy, often unexpected and <i>never</i>
boring. But my favourite part of the job is still when everyone else leaves and
I get to walk through the Central Hall on my own, surrounded by statues of Sir
Richard Owen and Sir Charles Darwin. Being part of history is never boring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A year ago, I started an AMA
(Associateship of the Museums Association) and as well as learning all about
aspects of the sector I would never normally come into contact with, I can indulge
my passion for being behind the scenes taking part in AMA Support Group museum
tours. AMA run events every six weeks in
various different venues, and one of the nicest things about it is being able
to get out and about and see what is happening in London museums. I suppose the
point of the AMA is that it literally does ‘open doors’ – into all the places I
always wanted to see!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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London Museums Group, and I recently I became the NHM representative for the
excellent <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">Share London</a>
scheme. When another museum opens its doors to me, I feel privileged, so I say
why not all open our doors to each other and share all the great experience and
skills we have!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LMG’s <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">Share London</a> you can contact
Rachel Mackay via r.mackay@nhm.ac.uk.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>London Museums Group Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08051577271555628879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789320169049292154.post-42604943258049860162012-04-27T00:39:00.000-07:002012-04-27T01:57:26.569-07:00Green Museums Project<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Increasing energy costs have
forced many museums to review their operations to maximise energy efficiency
and reduce costs. For many this has been
complemented by increased awareness of their responsibilities to reduce the
overall environmental impact of museum services and to increase awareness of environmental
issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Museum of London’s
Renaissance Green Museums Project provided membership of the Green Business
Tourism Scheme (GBTS) to five of London’s smaller museums, Bexley Heritage
Trust, Bruce Castle Museum, Kelmscott House, Little Holland House and the Whitechapel
Gallery, to assist them in reviewing their current operations and assessing
where improvements might be made. From
the resulting action plans each museum received a small grant towards its
priority project. Projects were
completed within a four -month period after which museums received a follow up
assessment from GBTS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Corner project</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> </span>involved the creation of a new pond and bug hotel in a meadow
area on the banks of the River Cray. An
old flower bed near the meadow has been turned into a lavender garden in order
to attract butterflies and wildlife and the old nursery shop has been converted
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Officer is already inundated with bookings for pond dipping and bug hunting
sessions – good practice for the summer when families will be able to
experience “Wet and Wild” week, an action packed safari around the pond [see image above].'</span></span></div>
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a number of priority areas: energy consumption has been reduced by converting
to LED lighting [see gallery image below]; ecologically made goods have been acquired for the shop [see pencil image below]; an
educational programme of family activities has been developed highlighting
green activities through historical themes; ‘green’ information has been added
to the website and a Green Visitor Charter and Information File has been
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">'We were thrilled to have two young visitors - who had
taken part in 'How Green Were The Tudors' back in October 2011 - come back to
the museum with 4 little oak saplings. They had heard about Henry VIII getting
oak trees planted to ensure a good supply of timber for his ships,and were inspired
to plant acorns to grow their own oak
trees. And their attempts were very successful - their acorns sprouted. Only they couldn't grow the oak trees in their small garden so to ensure the saplings survived they brought them back to Bruce Castle to be replanted back in the park around the museum.' </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Deborah Hedgecock, Curator, Bruce Castle Museum.</span></span></i></div>
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promotion project</i> </span>focussed on replacement lighting within the listed
building and printing fair trade cotton bags.
Promotion of environmental issues through walking tours and educational
workshops for schools will be addressed when funds become available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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energy lighting at Whitechapel Gallery project </i></span>has been a catalyst for a
major new sustainability programme for Whitechapel Gallery. The grant has been used to fit LED lighting
within a gallery space, with the permission of the artist Tobias Rehberger.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been able to act on a direct recommendation from the Green Tourism Board,
increasing the amount of low energy lighting we use at Whitechapel Gallery [see image above]. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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aesthetic considerations of a Grade II* listed building. For us the project
achieved widespread support for bringing environmental practice to the heart of
producing exhibitions, shown nowhere better than through Tobias Rehnberger’s
agreement to feature low energy lighting in his 2008 work, Adaption 13,
pictured.' </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Sophie Hayles, External Relations Officer, Whitechapel Gallery.</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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upgrade the Energy Efficiency of Little Holland House </i></span>provided<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>improvements to energy efficiency by
upgrading insulation in the roof and around the water system and replacement of
lighting with low energy fittings.
Information was also provided for visitors regarding Sutton Museum and
Heritage Service’s commitment to sustainability and what actions they can take
to be green, via a Green Information file.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advisory assessments by GBTS indicated that for all the museums communication
is an issue where considerable improvements might be made and all of the
participants have indicated a commitment to improvements in this area. Most of the grant recipients viewed these
projects as a starting point for a long term commitment towards environmental
sustainability. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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assessments, on completion of these improvement projects, all five museums
received an award through the scheme:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the energy savings made through these projects a key impact has been increased
awareness and commitment from museum staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the project “has been a boost for the garden team” and “the organisation
has embraced and is promoting sustainability”.
For example, the education team has now opted to send out all booking
materials by email and has begun a challenge for schools to be the best at
recycling lunch waste. In addition pond
dipping sessions will add another income stream for the Trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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noted an improvement in the awareness of staff. “Staff are now more aware of
their own practices and are more conscious about the products they buy for
consumption at work.” The project has provided an opportunity for the museum to
review and highlight work it has carried out previously and to work with
Friends of Bruce Castle and the Parks Service to plant trees and restore a
kitchen garden. Programming has also
embraced sustainability with Vintage Fair events which will also assist in
generating income. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also reported an increase in general environmental awareness amongst staff and
volunteers. This is of particular
relevance as ideas of environmental sustainability were reflected in William
Morris’s own beliefs and writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The timetable for these
projects was very tight and that resulted in knock-on pressures regarding
procurement of suitable equipment and communication between relevant staff and
technical experts. In addition two local
authority based museums were affected by Council cutbacks to parks and museum
staff, which also impacted on projects.
Ideally museums undertaking environmental improvements should take into
account the possibility of delays due to lack of available stock of suitable
LED lighting. It is also clear from the
experience of participants that miscommunication can lead to increased costs
and museums need to ensure sufficient time to brief/negotiate curatorial staff
regarding options.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All four of the museums
undertaking energy efficiency improvements as part of their projects are
committed to monitoring energy usage and all will be able to compare future
consumption with the baseline data from supplied as part of the preliminary
GBTS assessment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The degree to which
awareness has been raised through this work will be measured through usage,
media coverage, website hits and sales of ‘eco friendly’ shop goods. The initial findings look promising.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For all 5 participants to
achieve an award during their first year in the GBTS scheme is a great
achievement and I’m hopeful that armed with their improvement plans and the
commitment and enthusiasm of their staff all of the museums will be able to
build on this work for a sustainable future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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London Museums Group Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08051577271555628879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789320169049292154.post-25040236843896311272012-04-12T02:03:00.000-07:002012-04-12T02:03:32.471-07:00Steel Cap Shoes<h2><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Nature and Nurture: leading the nation in sustainable heritage</span></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was 11 years old when I moved from central Leeds to Richmond, North Yorkshire, the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales and, to me, one of the most beautiful towns in the country. My brother and I went from not being allowed out of the front gate for fear of us being run over or kidnapped to being told by our mum ‘Get out in those fields, I don’t want to see you until dinner time’. I was suddenly granted the freedom of the natural world and spent the next six years roaming through fields, climbing trees, wandering through woodland and wading in the River Swale. The natural world set me free and brought me a profound degree of comfort and strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At 18, as I approached my A-Level exams, I was set to study biochemistry at University, but it suddenly occurred to me that I wouldn’t be satisfied with a laboratory based job and that I wanted to spend my time outdoors, in the natural world. Searching for a solution, I spoke to staff at a local college, one of whom suggested I look into doing an Ecology degree. Enthralled by the idea I gathered a shortlist of 10 institutions. I picked up the phone to call the Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge, to find out more about their course 20 minutes later, I had been offered a place on a BSc in Ecology and Conservation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The greatest thing my degree gave me was an ever growing awe and appreciation for the natural world. It also introduced me to Roots & Shoots, an environment and humanitarian youth programme co-ordinated by the Jane Goodall Institute. Passionately involved, I was selected to represent the UK at the Jane Goodall Global Youth Summit in Florida. Here I met two Nepalese delegates who invited me to come and work with them out in Nepal. Three months after returning from Florida, I was on a plane to work with them on environmental and humanitarian projects. I lived in Kathmandu with a Nepalese family for two months and fully engaged myself with the culture. What I experienced and observed in Nepal put my own life and society into sharp contrast. Until this point I had intended to work in International Development, but I saw the biggest problem was at home [UK] and that I needed to direct my energy into helping my own nation develop sustainably.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On leaving university I found myself making my way through a string of jobs. Bored in a position as an administrative assistant, I stumbled upon an advertisement for a position as a Trainee in the Sustainability of Heritage. I applied and within weeks was starting my first week at the Garden Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was fascinated by the concept of coupling sustainability and heritage and immediately recognised the opportunity to help the heritage sector ‘lead the nation in sustainable development’. I believe that museums have an innate responsibility to be sustainable and to preserve and protect the environment and human communities because their collections represent the diversity and beauty of our environmental and cultural heritage. For a museum to have a detrimental effect on the environment and on human communities is hypocritical. Museums also attract visitors that are eager to learn and have a personal interest in the subject matter that the museum exhibits. You don’t get a more receptive audience than that, which provides museums with the perfect opportunity to educate their visitors on sustainability through the narratives of their collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I approach my last few weeks at the museum [March 2012], I am reflecting on what this traineeship has achieved; community relationships have been strengthened through skill sharing, communications internally and externally have been improved using newsletters and front of house narratives, the café has embarked on a food localisation project, our exhibitions are less wasteful. But the legacy of the year has been the Zero Waste to Landfill project. We installed a recycling system and trained staff how to use it. We visited a Materials Recovery Facility and an Energy from Waste Facility, but I felt a strange desire to see the role of the bin man, so I rang up our waste contractors and asked whether I could join a shift on the bins. They were shocked by my request (apparently nobody had ever asked before) but kindly obliged, and so at 3.30am one September morning, I climbed into the cab of a 12 tonne truck [see image of the steel cap shoes I had to wear]. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Read more at <a href="http://sustainabilityofheritage.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/a-day-on-the-dust-carts/#more-78">http://sustainabilityofheritage.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/a-day-on-the-dust-carts/#more-78</a>. As a result of this, we decided to arrange a new contract with our local council, so that our non-recyclable waste would go to an Energy from Waste Facility to produce energy, achieving our Zero Waste to Landfill target.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My year at the Garden Museum has given me the confidence and resolve to pursue a career in communicating sustainability. To pursue this professionally I have been lucky enough to receive a position at the Natural History Museum as a Weekend Science Educator. This is my next exciting step to improving my knowledge and gaining some specialist skills and experience, so that I can enthuse and inspire people about the wonders of the natural world and, in turn build a respect for it within our society.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Author: Jade-Lauren Cawthray<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jade has been instrumental in setting up <a href="http://sustainabilityofheritage.wordpress.com/">Operation Green Museums</a>, a sustainable museum group that meets to knowledge share and discuss and develop initiatives.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> If your museum would like to take part please contact Beatrice at: <a href="mailto:Jade@gardenmuseum.org.uk"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">Beatrice</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">@gardenmuseum.org.uk</span></span></a> or via LMG’s <a href="http://www.londonmuseumsgroup.org/share">Share London</a>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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