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Co-Curation of Collections
This is a bespoke session planned with you to meet your curriculum enrichment needs. This session aims to focus in on museums and their role within the communities they represent through the collections they hold.
What is community co-curation and why is it important for the communities who work with us? We explore the sensitivities of displaying objects of spiritual importance and the crucial role communities lead on in display, interpretation and wider engagement with all communities who come to our venues.
This session can be taught:
- at the Oriental Museum
- as an online session
Visit to the Museum
- Introductory Talk - Using our Silk Roads and Roberts Gallery of South East Asia as two case studies, we look at the role of the museum as a facilitator for the community voice and the decisions communities make in how they wish to be represented.
- Gallery Explore - Delve into the galleries and understand what is it the communities we work with want the public to learn when they visit and interact with these spaces.
Online Session
- Introductory Talk -Using our Silk Roads and Roberts Gallery of South East Asia as two case studies, we look at the role of the museum as a facilitator for the community voice and the decisions communities make in how they wish to be represented.
- Question and Answer - We ensure to give space for discussion and curiosity in this online session.
Planning
- We recommend it is best served to be used for Key Stage 4 and Post-16 groups. However, we are open to discussion of you wish to develop this session for younger groups or the specific needs.
- We need plenty of advanced notice for this session to ensure we can plan in the research time required to ensure we have the collections to match your learning requirements.
- We look forward to working with you and your group to look at how we can openly and collaboratively learn together, queering our collections is an ever evolving process and we are constantly learning.