Dear All,
I am posting this message on behalf of a museum in West Sussex. Their education team is in the process of setting up an "interactive/hands-on area" based on the Romasn, with next to no budget - a familiar story. The education team already have some ideas on how to go about doing this, but would like to find out what other museums have done in similar situations. In particular, they would like to know:
1) Good suppliers of hands-on resources and activities - and replica items.
2) suggestions for effective (yet easy to maintain and low cost) handling activities - general and Roman-specific.
3) Recommendations for sources of funding to equip an interactive area (tall order, I know!)
Creating a discrete interactive area, rather than incorporating interactive displays through the galleries, is not always the ideal way to go about encouraging visitors to really engage with the museum. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is it better to incorporate interactive into galleries or do you think discrete interactive areas are useful? Can you recommend any examples of best practice for either approach?
Any thoughts that you could share on any of these questions, would be most gratefully received.
Many thanks in advance,
Jane
Jane Nash
Museum Education Co-ordinator
c/o Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
Chapel Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1HP
T: 01903 221178
F: 01903 236277
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