inspire/ create/ explore/ learn - the learning team at plymouth city museum and art gallery
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INSPIRE/ CREATE/ EXPLORE/ LEARN - The Learning Team at Plymouth City Museum and Art GalleryTRANSCRIPT
Inspire / Create / Explore / Learn
The Learning Team atPlymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
PLYMOUTH CITY MUSEUMAND ART GALLERYDrake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AJ
t: 01752 304774e: [email protected]://www.flickr.com/photos/plymouthmuseums
Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5.30pm(last entries at 5pm)
Saturday and Bank Holiday Mondays10am to 5pm (last entries at 4.30pm)
WELCOME!
With this booklet, we aim to giveyou an introduction to Plymouth City
Museum and Art Gallery’s Learning Team.The team cover a wide range of educational
and community activities that relate to ourpermanent collections or temporary exhibitions.We aim to offer inspiring opportunities to explore andenjoy these for you and your group - whether on-site inone of our galleries, or off-site in another location.
Please have a look through our booklet to seefor yourself the ways we can enrich yourexperience with our objects or exhibitions.
BEST OF ALL - WE’RE FREE!
Index
The ImaginatorsEarly Years 6-9
Visits to the MuseumSchools 10-11
Museum in TransitSchools 14-15
Visiting your SchoolSchools 18-19
The CoreYoung People 22-23
Young ExplainersYoung People 26-27
Further and Higher Education 30-31
Community OutreachCommunity 34-35
Adult GroupsCommunity 38-39
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The ImaginatorsEarly Years
The Imaginators are a lively group of rising fivesand their parents, guardians, grandparents andcarers who meet each week in the Museum galleries.
The Imaginators has been running successfully forapproximately eight years, and has now expandedto include both a morning and afternoon session.We use objects fromMuseum and Art Gallery collections,or engage with the exhibitions held in our galleries,as stimulus for hands on and fun activities.
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Visits to the MuseumSchools
Our on-site team can offer you a wide range ofideas and activities in connection with our galleriesand exhibitions to support the school curriculum.We believe that enjoyment, inspiration andcreativity are central to this.
We offer free staff-led sessions to both primaryand secondary schools, special schools, collegesand universities, and can tailor each of theseguided sessions to your needs. Sessions can betied into our regular temporary and touring exhibitions,our permanent displays, or our handling collectionobjects - or can be a combination of all three. Wealso offer the opportunity to bring your group andstudy in your own way in any of our galleries.We call these self-guided sessions and in manycases we can support your visit with teachers’notes or further information.
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“Thank you forshowing me and myclass mates around.My favourite partwas dressing up andsmelling the fox wee”
Chloe, DunstonePrimary School
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Museum in TransitSchools
Museum in Transit (MIT) is our core schooleducation outreach service designed to createa unique, week long event in your school.
We will bring displays, museum artefacts, replicaitems, images and costume to your school. Yourpupils will be involved with the organisation andsmooth running of the week as they take onresponsibility for the display, some of the activitiesand their own research and learning. The week-long,timetabled event includes whole school assemblies,class sessions and research opportunities.
Our MIT visit is planned around a group of curriculumthemes selected by you. Sessions cover a wide rangeof history, art and science topics. Skills based objectivesare also addressed.The MIT week culminates in amuseum-led presentation assembly where the wholeschool shares the learning discoveries made duringthe week.
For schools interested in MIT for the first time,please contact us to book a 30 minute visit to oneof your staff meetings. For schools booking a repeatvisit by MIT, please try to book as early as possibleto avoid disappointment.
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HOW’S MYDRIVING?
CALL:01752304774
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Visiting your SchoolSchools
We can also visit your School to enrich individualclass or year group topics.
If a week-long Museum In Transit (MIT) visit isn’tsuitable we can also visit (to enrich individual classor year group topics) for a half day or day.
Sessions are based around Museum artefactsand images. We cover a wide range of history, artand science themes. Skills based objectives aroundthemes of enquiry, investigation and research arealso addressed.
Providing access to original museum collectionartefacts enables children to explore and investigatetheir topics in a unique way.
By holding a Roman period pot, a WWII blackoutlantern, a crocodile skull or getting close up to areproduction from our art collections, your pupils cangain a greater understanding of their topic, developan enquiring mind and be inspired.
Please contact us as early as possible toavoid disappointment.
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The CoreYoung People
The Core, our youth forum, develops,encourages and engages young people aged11-18 years, by developing and promoting eventsand activities based on exhibitions, collections andMuseum programmes.
This is achieved through events such as Music,Murder, Mystery, a collaboration with the NationalPortrait Gallery. This brought together hard to reachyoung people through street art, break dancing andrapping and gifted and talented singers using literaryquizzes and drama.
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“SO
EPICIT WAS AWESOME!”
Workshop participant
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Young ExplainersYoung People
The Young Explainers project (for 18 and 25 yearolds), promotes the Museum to young people viaa programme of events and activities. These aredevised by the Young Explainers and based onexhibitions, collections, and the Museum programme.Students are offered a comprehensive trainingpackage which enables them to engage their peersand the rest of the community with the Museum.
Last year’s Young Explainers group gave their time tosupport the work of the museum by engaging youngpeople and the wider community with the exhibitionSir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius.Their work was equivalent to 1 full time member ofstaff working for 39.5 weeks (i.e. nearly nine monthsfull time work) in just 5 months!
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“Wouldn’t haveseen the exhibition
if the gig didn’t happen.You should do itmore often!!!”
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Lecturing in Further or Higher Education? Have youconsidered using our galleries as a basis for yourstudent’s studies?
We welcome groups of students in post-16 and post-18 education from schools, colleges and universitiesto all our galleries, whether they are exploring ourgalleries with you as a self-guided session, or takingpart in a session led by one of the Learning Team.We are often able to provide a specialist from ourstaff to support your visit, so if you have any specificneeds, please make do ask when you are bookingyour visit.
Recent visits have included Leisure and Tourism,Hospitality and Events Management, Photography,Fine Art, PGCE and BEd Trainees, Architecture,Art History - the list goes on.
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Community OutreachCommunity
Working with the local communityAlongside our acclaimed schools service we alsooffer regular sessions for a variety of communitygroups both on and off site.
Learning is lifelong and we aim to offer everyone thechance to get involved with Plymouth City Museumand Art Gallery’s collections. Take a look at what wehave to offer in the next couple of pages...
Remember: everything we do can be tailored to suiteach group’s individual needs and we are alwayskeen to work with new groups. So, if you are amember or leader of a group who would like toexplore the idea of visiting the museum or have uscome visit you then please get in touch.
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Adult GroupsCommunity
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Reminiscence SessionsThis is a FREE SERVICE for sheltered housing,residential homes, care homes and other communitygroups on request. Using objects, photos and music,groups can enjoy reminiscing about days gone bywith trained museum staff. There are lots of themesto choose from including Local Plymouth History,School Days, Fashion, World War II, Seaside,Leisure, History of Health, Herbal Remedies andmany more.
Reminiscence sessions range from 45 minutes to1½ hours and are designed around the individualgroup’s needs and requirements. If appropriate, wecan also include a craft session with our visit.
If you would like to host a session please get intouch with the community outreach team atthe museum.
The Traditional Womens Craft GroupCo-ordinated by our resident textile artist HelenRound, this group is run in partnership with ThePlymouth and District Racial Equality Council. It isopen to all and current participants boast a host ofcraft skills including knitting, patchwork, beadingand sewing.
The group often knit for local charities, have heldexhibitions of their work and assist in organising‘giant’ craft events.
A friendly and relaxed group - If you would like totake part, simply drop in to one of our sessions.
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Contact usBooking your visits
To book a visit to the museumPlease email [email protected]
To book an outreach session for your schoolPlease email [email protected]
For any other education enquiriesPlease email [email protected]
For any other education enquiriesPlease email [email protected]
Alternatively, please call 01752 304774
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Designed by David TetleyPhotographs © Adam Milford (*) and Erica Forster (#)