The CCC  ( Creative Community Curators project) invited people to explore the collection at The Cinema Museum, ‘follow their curiosity’ and identify a project or an idea, which were then developed over a number of weeks, culminating in a community exhibition. A project manager, researcher and assistant (student placement) were recruited to support CCC. The project manager […]

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What’s Your Story? Using Technology as a Catalyst for Engagement and Ownership of Cultural Heritage, (Storiel) Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery (GMAG)  2013-14 GMAG partnered with the Wales Centre for Behavioral Change in order to build upon a current theme in museum studies – the ways in which “museums can facilitate, and not just impart meaning” (Petrov, 2012). […]

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Slough Museum, Community Conversations, 2013-2014 The ‘Community Conversations’ project aimed to make Slough’s community stronger, happier, and more sustainable through intergenerational conversations.The project utilised the Museum’s trusted position to be the facilitator of important dialogues.‘Community Conversations’ led to stronger connections, understanding, learning, and relationships across Slough’s community. Conversations sparked greater cohesion across generations and communities, […]

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The Weaving WellBEEing project at Abergavenny Museum helped visitors to make connections between locally-made objects, craft skills and the environment. By having a greater understanding of the materials, skills and the time involved to make things, visitors will were encouraged to leave the museum challenging our unsustainable throwaway society, appreciating our place within the natural […]

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The Gospel Ship, a project at Ceredigion Museum, was developed in collaboration with artist, Janetka Platun, People United and Happy Museum.  Through the project the community will co-create modern day responses inspired by the themes and subjects of an original 19th Century print (The Gospel Ship) in the museum’s collection. Ceredigion held several community workshops and gathered 120 pieces of writing […]

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The ‘Reaping the Knowledge’ project built on the museum’s sense of place in the community, respect for the heritage of Ceredigion, the promotion of past techniques in land management and how past techniques can be utilised in current farming and woodland practices. The project promoted social enterprise through traditional crafts through a collaboration between Ceredigion Museum […]

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