Archive
Here you can find out about some of the projects we've been involved with over the past couple of years.
Campaign! at the Thackray Museum
Emma managed a Campaign! Make an Impact project with the Thackray Museum and Primrose High School. Students created their own creative campaigns, inspired by the story of the campaign to make contraception accessible in the 1920s.
Discovering Whitby Abbey
Emma worked with English Heritage to develop a new, hands-on Discovery Visit to help schools explore this iconic and atmospheric site. Pupils learn about the medieval abbey-builders, handle mystery objects and find out what punishment would be meted out to a monk who dared to talk on the way to mass!
Learning at Conisbrough Castle
Emma was delighted to work with English Heritage again after developing a successful schools programme at Whitby Abbey. This time it's Conisbrough's unique medieval castle providing the focus for a series of Discovery Visits for school groups and a new Step Inside Guide for family learners.
Holocaust Website
Emma developed an exciting new website for the Leeds-based Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association. The site, www.holocaustlearning.org, contains filmed interviews with Holocaust survivors, digital archive materials and classroom activities.
Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge
The LOtC Quality Badge was launched in February 2009. Museums and heritage sites are eligible to apply for the badge, which demonstrates that they meet a set of quality indicators for out of school learning. Emma is one of a small number of trainers accredited by GEM to support providers in making their applications.
Living Metal
The popular image of South Yorkshire's metalwork industry is that it disappeared in the 1980s. With the Living Metal project, Sheffield curators and makers aimed to prove that the city's metalworking traditions are alive and well. Emma worked with Museums Sheffield to evaluate this long term project to raise awareness of the contemporary metalwork scene in the city. Photo by Carl Rose.
Coal, Frankincense and Myrrh
Sheffield has one of the oldest and largest Yemeni communities in Britain. Emma worked with Museums Sheffield and Yemeni community members to evaluate the outcomes of a partnership project and exhibition held at Weston Park Museum in 2008. Photo by Tim Smith.
Yorkshire Federation Training Programme
Emma recently stepped down from the role of Training Officer for the Yorkshire Federation of Museums and Galleries, a regional membership organisation for sector staff and volunteers. She initiated Museum Essentials, the Federation's flagship training programme, and managed the programme from 2008 to 2010.
Sharing European Memories
Yorkshire museums including the Peace Museum, the Royal Armouries Museum, Lotherton Hall and York Nuclear Bunker worked with young people and conflict veterans in an exciting European partnership project about sharing memories of conflict. Emma managed the project together with oral history specialist Dr Tracy Craggs.
