This is an evaluation report of Glasgow Museums’ community curated Curious Exhibition. Based in St Mungo Museum in Glasgow, the Curious Project was an innovative project designed to support and celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games and prepare for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games by creating intercultural dialogue and developing a legacy of increased understanding … Read more
A detailed report on the effectiveness of the Renaissance programme – funding across regional museum hubs to promote community engagement activities. It discusses approaches to community engagement, outcomes and impacts, and policy and programme development.
Findings from a day-long consultation exercise with 9 to 14 year olds held at the Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life. The report describes the activities on offer and the feedback from the children. It then makes recommendations on how to attract more visitors from this age group to museums.
A detailed report describing how the MLA Challenge Fund successfully enabled museums, libraries and archives round the UK to open up their spaces free of charge to self-organised groups of learners. Case studies include a poetry group and various heritage, craft and creative arts groups.
In August 2013 the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York launched ‘MoMA Teens’ – teens.moma.org – a Tumblr blog that aims to introduce more teenagers to the world of MoMA. Two months after launch the blog already had 2,500 followers. The day-to-day management of the blog is undertaken by ‘teen editors’ who have built up … Read more
To communicate with the world, an arts organisation needs first of all to be clear what it stands for. It needs, in other words, a clear brand. That clear brand, or idea, should help guide all the things the organisation does.
This article describes the difference between an audio guide to a gallery or museum which deepens the understanding of the exhibition to the user, and an audio description for blind and partially sighted people which does this in addition to providing information about what the exhibit looks like and how it is sited in the … Read more
The Sound Agents work with hidden and hard-to-reach communities in Liverpool. This article describes two projects; The first is a co-production working with patients documenting their surgery. The information captured was used to plan a new, friendlier surgery. The second ‘Project Chinatown’, involves a number of programmes leading to the development of a new multimedia Chinese … Read more
Jerry Yoshitomi explores what makes a museum or gallery experience meaningful and how innovation and new practices are needed if we are to break down barriers, deepen the visitor experience and attract a new generation of visitors.
This article looks at how the Baltic has increased visitor frequency by making the visitor experience an unrivalled one, aiming to convert those who might be supporters of the museum into ‘raving fans’. Claire Byers explains how technology has played its part but so too has staff training.