{"id":8758,"date":"2018-04-04T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:35:52","slug":"supporting-teens-to-take-over-the-fitzwilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/supporting-teens-to-take-over-the-fitzwilliam\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting teens to take over the Fitzwilliam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve teenage Museum Ambassadors; three galleries in the Fitzwilliam Museum<\/a>, 45 teachers and family members. Recipe for disaster right? Wrong! Our Museum Ambassadors from North Cambridge Academy set themselves the aim of creating an event that showed that \u2018museums are fun and for everyone\u2019.<\/h2>\n

\u201cThank you for giving us this opportunity, you are going to be part of my favourite memories of secondary school.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>– Riya, Museum Ambassador<\/h4>\n

We have a responsibility to support young people and our communities to make decisions and grow in confidence while engaging with our museums. Our Teens Takeover events enabled the young people to pick the galleries they wanted to work in and then carefully budget and plan activities for each space.<\/p>\n

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I loved the ideas that were developed from Egyptian style makeovers to weapon displays in the armoury.\u00a0 We had it all! The ambassadors took their job very seriously, in particular the Finance Manager who had to be convinced to spend any money. It was incredible to watch the young people grow in confidence and start to negotiate with each other. They really gelled as a team. They worked together over 4 months to plan the event. During this time they composed emails and letters to Keepers and Curators at the Fitzwillam Museum checking the activities they had planned were appropriate for the galleries. They\u00a0 worked with Suzanne Reynolds & John Lancaster on a previous project which gave them a basic understanding of conservation issues & how we must protect our objects. So they were very understanding when some of their ideas were unsuitable.<\/p>\n

So what did they organise?<\/h3>\n

Studio – wax modelling inspired by Degas<\/p>\n

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Seminar Room – a photobooth room with a selection of props and costume<\/p>\n

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Egyptian gallery – tours with Keeper Helen Strudwick….<\/p>\n

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…and\u00a0Egyptian-inspired eye make-overs<\/p>\n

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Armoury – two costumed interpreters who demonstrated\u00a0 how armour was worn and how to fight<\/p>\n

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Gallery 5 – drawing challenges encouraging people to spend time really looking at the paintings and sculptures in the gallery<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like an adult.\u201d – Vicky, Museum Ambassador<\/h4>\n

Evaluation<\/h3>\n

18 out of the 30 evaluation forms we had back agreed that the event had changed their opinion of the Fitzwilliam Museum. With one person saying, \u201cYes, for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Did anything surprise you about our event?<\/h4>\n

\u201cAll of the girls were great at guiding between the spaces and very professional. It was great to see how respected they are by the museum staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting it to be so \u2018hands on\u2019\/interactive\u201d<\/p>\n

What did you learn today?<\/h4>\n

\u201cTo look closer.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was your favourite part of today and why?<\/h4>\n

\u201cHaving the Egyptian make-up and being able to listen to the curator at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twelve teenage Museum Ambassadors; three galleries in the Fitzwilliam Museum, 45 teachers and family members. Recipe for disaster right? Wrong! Our Museum Ambassadors from North Cambridge Academy set themselves the aim of creating an event that showed that \u2018museums are fun and for everyone\u2019. \u201cThank you for giving us this opportunity, you are going to be part of my favourite… Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,156],"tags":[223,215],"coauthors":[286],"class_list":["post-8758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engagement","category-the-fitzwilliam-museum","tag-cyp","tag-education"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}