Renaissance London

Changing Lives                         London Museums Group                     MLA London

 

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Collective Communities

 

Date:       Thursday 6th November 2008

10.00am – 3.30pm

 

Venue:     The Stevenson Lecture Theatre, The British Museum

Great Russell Street, London. WC1B 3DG

 

Cost:        Free

 

 

Dear Colleague

 

London Museums Group is pleased to invite you to this skills sharing event focussing on connecting museums’ collections and exhibitions to your local community. The event is funded by Renaissance London through London Museums Hub and the Museum Development fund managed by MLA London and therefore attendance is free. Invites to this event have recently been extended to include London’s archives.

 

This event also incorporates the Annual General meeting for LMG.

 

The collections part of event will begin with a presentation from Liz Braby, Audience Development Officer at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Her presentation will look at both the opportunities and practical challenges that museums face in engaging with diverse local communities to collect objects and oral testimonies that reflect their lives. The presentation will explore wider policies, social and cultural agendas, as well as practical museum working. It will make particular reference to 'Ask the Audience', a three year audience development project at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

 

The event will include case studies from the London Museums Hub’s Reassessing What We Collect project and The Heritage Lottery Fund’s Collecting Cultures programme.

 

There will also be an opportunity for delegates to attend a workshop (please state your preference when booking).

Workshop A: Touring Exhibitions (Sarah McCormick Healy, Exhibition Project Manager)

Workshop B: Many Happy Returns: How to plan loans to non-museum venues (Jane Bowen, Freelance consultant)

 

A full programme for the day is available from MLA London’s website http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/Programme_06112008_final.doc

 

If you would like to book a place at this free event please download the booking form and complete it remembering to state which workshop you want to attend and return by Wednesday 15th October 2008 to: Bookings, MLA London, Fourth Floor, 53-56 Great Sutton Street, London. EC1V 0DG.

Tel: 020 7549 1712 Fax: 020 7490 5225 e-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

I look forward to seeing you on 6th November.

 

Yours Sincerely

Rachel Tranter (Chair of LMG)

 

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