Design Thinking – Designing a new family guide for the Fitzwilliam
What are the right questions to ask when designing a new resource or service? What methods can we use to assist collaborative and creative thinking? Marco Mason, a Marie Curie research fellow at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, has been on placement with the Fitzwilliam Museum to carry out a research and pilot project in which he…
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…
