Good learning resources stand the test of time. Back in 2006, I created resource boxes about the Railways, the Seaside and Victorian Childhood for the museums in the Tees Valley and the boxes are still regularly used by schools. I'm starting work with Head of Steam, Darlington Railway Museum, to find out what sort of learning resources teachers would like while the museum will be closed for re-development (December 2022 to Spring 2024) and when it re-opens. At Kirkleatham Museum, I'll be carrying out an audit of all their existing resource boxes and refreshing them in appearance and content.
Two pieces of good news for heritage: firstly the National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced its new funding programme which will help heritage recover from the impact of covid:
Before the end of March, "being on furlough" was an expression hardly ever heard in the UK. In order to preserve jobs during the Covid-19 lockdown, more than a quarter of UK workers are now on furlough and not at work, with their wages being paid by the Government. So this required a new question in a survey which I carried out recently. Museums and other heritage organisations are making much more available online - exhibitions, talks, family activities - so we evaluators and visitor researchers are busy developing effective ways to evaluate online activities.
As a result of the Covid-19 restrictions, some of the Canny Chanters Chopwell Arts activities have had to be postponed until further notice, but I had the chance, as the project evaluator, to go along to the Woodland Wool felt making workshop run by Emz Galdo. CCCA is a pilot programme of music and other activities taking place in Chopwell, to provide creative opportunities for children, young people and adults to have fun, make new friends, learn new skills and find new talents.
- Heritage Schools evaluation report 2018/19 launched
- Kings Seat hill fort
- Heritage Centre Bellingham
- Who are our visitors?
- Places of Worship for Community Wellbeing
- Snapping the Stiletto
- Dementia Friendly Heritage
- Martin Luther King in Newcastle
- Art up your tab
- Museums Change Lives
- Charred timber cladding for the Kielder wildlife hide
- New wildlife hide for Kielder
- Martin Luther King - Freedom City Launch
- On tenterhooks
- Heritage Schools wins Europa Nostra award
- Glass Beats
- Leeches and Stories of Glass
- Selma - the right to vote
- Kinder Transport Memorial, Liverpool Street Station
- Goulash Cannon and Tin Helmet
- Remembrance
- Making glass at the National Glass Centre
- The Canary Girls
- Recycling from the First World War
- The Talented and Colossal Mademoiselle D'Jeck
- Visitor Studies in Split, Croatia
- On the border of Slovenia and Hungary
- Culture Matters
- Slovenia
- Repositories of technology
- A piece of Hungarian social history
- Museum + Heritage Show; Arts Professional
- Evaluation training in Slovenia and Croatia
- Iron Applause in Central Europe
- Escaped Circus Elephant!
- Gold from Afghanistan and Foundling fabrics
- The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík
- Contemporary art from North Korea
- Nicola appointed to Board: Kuratórium
- Workshop in Hungary
- Evaluation Training in Hungary