Time together at home: Keeping in touch through telephone conference calls
Dance and Time with the Museum began in 2016 as a partnership between the University of Cambridge Museums and residents from the Cambridge City Council Sheltered Housing Schemes and the Independent Living Service (ILS), working with Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, an independent dance artist. The ethos behind the programme was to provide an opportunity for residents to come together and have a…
In an ideal world, museums would make visiting easier by…
In early 2018, the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) started thinking about how we could help children with sensory sensitivities and their families to access the museums in a way that worked for them. “People aren’t aware you’ve used every ounce of your energy to get there [the museum]” Parent from focus group “It was a really special opportunity to…
“Magical”: an ongoing partnership with Cambridge Community Arts
What if we could look at the world through someone else’s eyes? What would we see? For three years now, the Museum of Classical Archaeology has been working Cambridge Community Arts to do just that, hosting an exhibition which allows us all to look out through the camera lenses of the learners on their accredited Photography Course. Cambridge Community Arts…
