New digital learning initiatives for family and teen visitors at the British Museum@junorae#SamsungCentre

UKMW2015 - 26/10/15

SchoolsTaught and self led sessions on weekdays

• Primary • SEN• Home-educated

FamiliesDrop in and bookable sessions every weekend

• Families• Teens (13-15s, 16-18s)

SDDC Key audiences

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Address issues:• Audience provision• Technology usage• Topics explored 

Strategic aims: • Reach • Depth• Advocacy

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1. Gallery focus

2. Object focus

3. Teens

4. Self-led in galleries

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5. Advocate of internal work and/or approaches

6. Skills (Computing)7. Families sessions to

support/respond to schools

8. Innovation lab

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Object focus

May - Museum superpowers • Families created a story

pane involving Garuda• Used conductive electric

paint to make circuits that responded to magnets and lit up to enhance their story.

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Object focus• Offer families object cards

to encourage them to go and visit the focus objects in situ in the galleries.

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Teen workshops

September - Photography

• New sessions focusing on skills and portfolio development:

• Teens explored the Museum’s great court to collect images to build up name plaques.

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Innovation lab

Monthly sessions

• Experimental programming strand introduced

• New ideas

• New technologies

• New methodologies

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Innovation lab

New sessions activities included:

• June – Making conductive badges

• July – Weaving conductive bracelets

• August – Creating digital storybooks

• October – Creating interactive trails

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Advocate of internal work and/or approaches

August – Virtual reality weekend

• Trialing use of VR for learning• Developed a Bronze Age

roundhouse experience

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Advocate of internal work and/or approaches

Incorporated British Museum and UCL’s MicroPasts project

• Sussex loop

• Beaune dirk

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Session benefits

Audience provision

Topics explored

Technology usage

Juno Rae@junoraejrae@britishmuseum.org

Lizzie Edwards@Lizzie_E100ledwards@britishmuseum.org

Find out more at:www.britishmuseum.org/Samsungcentre#SamsungCentre

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