Congratulations…

Congratulations!

The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded The National Museum of the Royal Navy  £1.4m for: ‘Telling the Story of the Royal Navy and its people in the 20th and 21st centuries’.

Harvest will be contributing a range of drama and media activities for the new project in 2012.  We will also be revisiting the model developed for ‘Face to Face’,  shortlisted for the Clore Award for Museum Learning, in which young people interview naval veterans.

This innovative approach to oral history has recently been written about in the Museums Association’s journal, Museum Practice, prompting lots of enquiries.

 

That’s Ingenious!

In early 2012, Harvest will be working with Bristol Museums Galleries and Archives on a project funded by Ingenious, better known as the Royal Academy of Engineering.  The project will use objects from the collections at M and L Shed, such as the trains, boats, cranes and the building itself, to engage young people and the general public with the wonderful potential of engineering.

Harvest will work with volunteer Engineering Ambassadors to improve their communication skills, using storytelling, media and a variety of performance and facilitation techniques.

All this will be documented by the award winning Harvest media folk so it can be shared and used by others.

“There are no hard to reach audiences, there are only hard to reach institutions”

The best thing I heard at the Museums Association conference. Also great presentations on diversity from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (who’d have thought…) and a fantastic resource from the British Library – Campaign – Make an Impact. And for sheer imagination, the digital interactive work of David Bickerstaff of Newangle.

Attending the Museums Association Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference centre 5th – 7th October.