The Arts Award in Schools Project
Last summer the University of Cambridge Museums were awarded a contract by My Cambridge, the Local Cultural Education Partnership for Cambridge, to deliver a collaborative Arts Award project with 4 city schools. The project tests ways of supporting schools to embed the Arts Award in their planning of the formal curricula, develop teacher confidence in using Arts Award and increase…
What do teachers want from a digital museum resource?
In January to March 2016 a team of University of Cambridge Museum educators (Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Naomi Chapman from the Polar Museum and Sarah-Jane Harknett from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) worked on a research project looking at how teachers use collections based and digital resources in the classroom. Their findings will inform the development of…
Reflecting on our experience of the Audience Diversity Academy
As their time as AMA Audience Diversity Academy fellows draws to a close, Kate Carreno, Assistant Director Central Services, and Miranda Stearn, Head of Learning at the Fitzwilliam Museum, reflect on their experience. As we approach the official end of the ADA Fellowship, we’ve been thinking about what the impact of our involvement has been, for our organisation and for…
