Lead partner: Angus Council
Partners: Dundee City Council, Perth & Kinross Council, Black Watch Regimental Museum, Discovery Point, Dunkeld Cathedral Chapter House, Glenesk Folk Museum, Museum of Abernethy, Tayside Medical History Museum, University of Dundee Collections, Verdant Works.
This project is working to develop a Learning and Access Partnership to build on the work already achieved through the partner�s SCF projects between 2003- 2005. The project is working with all the Registered museums in Tayside to build capacity, raise standards and improve services all for the benefit of the visitors.
Outcomes:
1. Audience Research and Development
To undertake audience research on the partners� behalf to identify existing audiences and target new audiences for project activity and to obtain comparable data for the partners to use for future service development e.g. MUSE Surveys, public consultation.
2. Tayside Museums Group
To set up, co-ordinate and administer the Tayside Museums Group during project�s lifetime with the hope that the group will become a formally constituted forum.
3. Joint Marketing Campaign
The project will work with the TMG to raise awareness of museums, what they do and have to offer the public e.g. produce a joint leaflet.
4. Collections Development
To raise documentation standards of the partner�s museums by sharing best practice across the partnership to improve access to collections e.g. implementation of ICT database ADLIB.
5. Family Learning Resources
To create and install a range of fun activities to encourage visits by families to the museums. The resources will be paper-based, developed, produced and promoted by project staff e.g. trails and quizzes.
6. Schools Learning Resources
To develop, produce and facilitate resources to encourage schools to visit the museums within the partnership. The resources will be three-fold to allow for sustainability beyond lifetime of the project e.g. teachers packs, interactive boxes and workshops.
7. Events and Activities Programme
The project will plan and deliver a programme of events and activities for Angus Museums to encourage more visitors and set clear guidelines for the future e.g. Just Kids events, Family Fun sessions, art activities etc.
8. Learning and Access Audit
To undertake a learning and access audit of partners� sites to assist service development, project activity and knowledge sharing.
9. Training Programme
The project will provide free training opportunities for the partners e.g. Documentation Basics, Out of the Box.
10. Skills Exchange Programme
Offering staff the opportunity to visit another museum organisation to gain knowledge, skills and experience of working museum practices e.g. Across the Tay: professional staff visiting NMS; Across Angus: for front-of-house staff and Across Tayside.
11. SVQs Qualifications
Taking best practice from SCF project, offer all staff from main partners with the opportunity to undertake a SVQs e.g. Level 2 Heritage Care & Visitor Services.
Contacts:
Tayside Museums Learning and Access Partnership
Forfar Library
50-56 West High Street
Forfar
DD8 1BA
T: 01307 462362
Emma Halford-McLeod, Learning and Access Co-ordinator
T: 07900 244 572 E: [email protected]
Andrea Hallam, Learning and Access Co-ordinator (Collections)
T: 07900 244 371 E: [email protected]
Click on the link below to read the project launch press release
Tayside Museums Learning and Access Partnership launch press release
See also the project web page at http://www.angus.gov.uk/history/museums/tmlap/default.htm
