Interested in museums, art and archaeology, planning and running events for young people and finding about careers in the cultural sector? If the answer is yes, The Ashmolean’s CREATIVES young people’s panel for 16-18 year olds could be / is for you!
Our first meeting saw the new panel members putting themselves in the picture using paintings from the Italian Renaissance Gallery. Can you spot some surprising twentieth first century faces hiding in these fifteenth century masterworks?
We visited the ‘Storms, War and Shipwrecks’ exhibition about underwater archaeology from Sicily. Afterwards, we shared feedback about how the exhibition worked for families and young people, now given to the curator who worked on the exhibition. Everyone was very positive about the displays, design and interactives.
‘Really good visual way of explaining the history, enjoyable for children to watch and easy to understand.’
‘Lots of audio- visual material makes it easy to visualise how the objects week used and found. Interactive exhibits good for children. Good variety of objects but not too many.’
Some suggestions: ‘More seating, brighter lighting, couldn’t find a good place for a photo to post it on Instagram.’
The group made a wish list of things they’d like to do at future meetings including…
- Learning about object care and conservation
- behind the scenes tours
- finding out about people’s jobs
- visiting exhibitions
- planning events for young people
- learning about objects in the collections
- giving their ideas to improve the museum for young people.
Over the next 2 meetings we will be visiting the Print Room, meeting the Museum’s Commercial Director to finding out about merchandising and shop displays and starting to plan an event for a Live Friday in 2017.
We meet monthly on Saturday mornings from 10- 12
Next meetings
- Saturday 12th November
- Saturday 3rd December
If you’d like to join us, please contact Clare Cory