Museum Trend: Providing Spaces for Active Creativity - Museum Hack. Art museums are bastions of the greats. The works they feature are considered timeless pieces that speak to and inspire everyone. Yet many visitors are disengaged at art museums: wandering galleries as they seek out popular masterpieces to snap a photo and say that they’ve seen it. Even when visitors leave inspired, they may not have a space in which their creative juices can flow. Why can’t museums be sites of inspiration and active creativity?
Desi Gonzalez, of the Andy Warhol Museum, recently explored this question in her paper, “Museum making: Creating with emerging technologies in art museums,” presented at the Museums and the Web conference in 2015. Gonzalez looked at the emerging trend of “museum making” — initiatives that invite audiences to creatively produce within museum spaces. Download the PDF version of these slides. Find out about our consulting work with museums, or send us an email to find out more about how we can help your institution with audience development. The Freelance Educators Who Teach Children to Love Museums. Museum education as a formalized set of practices is a post–World War II development.
Previous to the onset of what some museum scholars have called an “educational museology,” public and private art museums were primarily concerned with their collections, their chief patrons, and their artists. The first book outlining appropriate methods to be used by museum education officers, Museum School Services, was published in 1967 in London. It took more than a decade for the largest museum advocacy group in the country, the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums), to announce its unequivocal support for the idea that a museum’s primary task should be education. Additionally, little is known among the wider public about the teaching methods used and strategies applied with respect to current pedagogy, museums’ particular collections, or the needs of specific populations.
The following is generated by conversations with four educators. December 23, 2010. Methods: Cutting stringer : Cynthia. When cutting stringer, remember: There’s safety in numbers. Don’t ask me why, but I have better accuracy when cutting several stringers at once than I do trying to chop one up evenly. I think it works because I stop thinking about cutting one angel-hair-pasta-thin bit of glass and simply score the way I always do. To do it, line up multiple stringers on your work surface, as above, and bunch them together as tightly as possible while keeping them perfectly flat. (Sometimes it helps to scotch tape the stringers to the table) Measure your cutting point, and draw a line across all (or most) of the stringers with Sharpie marker. Now hold down all the stringer with one hand, firmly, and draw your glasscutter across the stringer at the mark, scoring each piece.
Now pick up all the stringer, bundle them together and hold them in both hands with the cut mark in the center. This method seems to produce straighter, more accurate pieces with fewer shards popping all over the place. Using Museum Theatre | Museums Australia Education. By Jo Henwood, hosted at Q Station This workshop was part of the term 1 professional development day for MAEd New (Museums Australia Education NSW) held at Q Station on Monday 9 March 2015 on “Using Museum Theatre in Museum Education”. Using Museum Theatre 1 Julie Regalado (Q Station) Welcome to Q Station Julie Regalado (Q Station) welcomes to the Q Station. She gives a brief overview of the history and purpose of the site before the workshops begin. Using Museum Theatre 2 Jo Henwood (MAEd New) Introduction Using Museum Theatre 3 Lyn Beasley (Consultant) Creating drama Lyn Beasley (Education Consultant) draws on her experience as former president of IMTALAP (International Museum Theatre Alliance: Asia Pacific) and coordinator of the Come Alive festival at the National Museum of Australia to show how to facilitate students in the creation of drama productions in heritage sites.
Using Museum Theatre 4 Will Jones (Marine Discovery Centre) Using games Like this: Like Loading... 10985367_428638690632673_604045502688881586_n.jpg (JPEG Image, 720 × 787 pixels) Blog | Museum-Ed. National Association for Interpretation. 123 Inspiration. The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor | A poem each day, plus literary and historical notes from this day in history | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Colossal | An art, design, and visual culture blog. My Modern Met.