Could I just add a plea for this?
The cultural sector is forever banging on
about young people, and yet, as the National Trust, and, indeed, many concert
halls, have shown, attendance by older people at cultural events, and of
cultural sites is massive. It could be argued that they are a key audience to
capture. They have plenty of disposable income, they have time, and they have
interest. We are also an aging population - there will never be a shortage of
older people. And you know what? All those young people get old. It’s a
renewable resource.
I’d argue that this group, almost more
than any other, is a group to target for cultural activities.
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Sent: 14 October 2013 13:58
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Subject: Re: Museums and older
people panels
This is a great question, Dan! A couple
of months back, I saw a really interesting video project done by the Museum of
London, around an on-going project capturing memories of the old
docklands/poplar region from senior tenants of a local housing association.
(Kirsty Marsh and Halima Khanom may be able to provide further details – hope
you don’t mind me cc’ing you here, guys!)
There’s a seam of engagement of older
communities running through next month’s Museums Association conference, too.
I reckon FWW funding could provide an
excellent spur for reminiscence groups that could crystallise into on-going
user panels?
There’s probably a lot of scope for work
around mutually reinforcing inter-generational work, too (ie constructing
overlaps between youth panels and parallel groups for older visitors).
Intrigued to see how this discussion
develops!
John
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Subject: Museums and older people
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We
hear lots about museums using panels of young people, but does anyone use older
people panels to reach out to their audiences? I’d also be really interested in
hearing about any examples of good practice in terms of engaging older people
in museums, particularly grandparents as part of the family unit.
Dan
Ellitts
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