Highland Council - �100,000
Partners: Highland Museums Forum and Highland and Island Enterprise
This project aims to develop ways of supporting the museums within Highland Council � two hub museums, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and the Highland Folk Museum, and 18 independents - to increase learning provision and broaden access.
An Education Officer, Rhona Hamilton, has now been appointed. Rhona is working with museums and a range of community partners to create learning templates and develop themed resources for all museums� ongoing adaptation. Intergenerational working, cross-sector consultation and regional networking are all part of the project�s operations. The outcomes will assist Highland museums in exploring, interpreting and sharing their collections with ever-wider audiences.
Currently Outreach Long and Wide is exploring literacy through heritage with Travelling pupils. This will hopefully lead to an exhibition comparing the lives of Travellers past and present, and to a schools resource that, as part of the Citizenship curriculum, will promote understanding between children. In parallel, Outreach Long and Wide is also developing a World War II pack to assist museums in collecting and recording wartime memories through inter-generational activities. The SCF project is exploring new links with community partners, including Women's Aid, and hopes to produce interesting, heritage-inspired packs on social issues and citizenship for primary teachers.
Rhona is getting to know the museums in Highland, discovering as much as she can about their needs and hoping to help them fulfil their learning potential. By using the Inspiring Learning for All framework, Rhona and her colleagues are creating a learning strategy to help guide museums in sustainable learning provision.
Contact: Mr Bob Powell, Curator, Highland Council
Tel: 01540 661307
Last updated 26/11/04
