Curious symposium on 5th & 6th December 2012 at St Mungo Museum, Glasgow Museums.
We’re nearing the end of Curious - a three year participatory project aiming to ‘create intercultural dialogue and a legacy of increased understanding of each other, our city and our collections.’ The project has included a community-led exhibition, learning programme in Cultural Awareness and strategies for intercultural dialogue,schools programme, events and volunteering opportunities. The symposium will reflect on the project, and interrogate assumptions underpinning collaborative museum work. We’re particularly interested in how to create rigorous research outcomes and upscale this type of participatory project.
On the first morning we will run sessions exploring the collaborative exhibition development, schools and learning programme that formed the main strands of the Curious project. In the afternoon there will be opportunities to hear from participants, as well as speakers from the Happy Museum project and Prof Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies (Creativity Culture and Faith) at Glasgow University. We plan to also host an evening reception, again including project participants.
On the second morning we’ll explore facilitation skills and how they can be applied to work with museum collections. We’ll be led by St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace and Kinharvie Institute.
The final session will scrutinise the claims we make for collaborative museum projects like Curious i.e. that they have lasting impact by developing audiences and networks, producing engaging interpretation, prompting intercultural dialogue, and creating knowledge about our collections and audiences. Speakers including Mark O’Neill, Kirsty Devine, Helen Graham, Caroline Reed, Eithne Nightingale, and Dr. Bernadette Lynch, will discuss how we can create, analyse, and measure impact beyond small groups of project participants.
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Curious is part of the Scottish Project. The Scottish Project has been funded by Legacy Trust UK, creating a lasting impact from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by funding ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK and by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
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