Podcast: How heritage can give communities a new voice

Podcast: How heritage can give communities a new voice

By For Arts Sake

SUMMARY

Dr Dominique Bouchard, Head of Learning and Interpretation at English Heritage shares insights from her fifteen years of experience leading public programming and exhibitions, and explores ideas of how museums and heritage can help communities tell their own stories.

The podcast For Arts' Sake discovers what museums are really for and what people who work there really do. Above all, the podcasts find out what impact museums have on people's life. These stories are about the ground-breaking work that these people do - for arts’ sake and for your sake.

In this episode For Arts' Sake talks to Dr Dominique Bouchard about how museums can make real contributions to communities and wider society.

 

 

Transcript (PDF)


Dr Domonique Bouchard

Dr Dominique Bouchard, Head of Learning and Interpretation at English Heritage, 2021 Clore Fellow, Honorary Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester

Dominique leads interpretation, art, digital curatorial, publications, youth engagement and learning across the national portfolio of more than 400 sites at English Heritage.

Dominique has fifteen years’ experience leading exhibitions, public programmes and learning in museums and heritage organisations in the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong. Dominique has worked as expert consultant on Northern Ireland for the European Commission, Council of Europe and UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the area of museums, heritage and divided societies. Dominique is passionate about empowering communities to share their own stories.

Resource type: Podcasts | Published: 2022