Museum Partnerships
In partnership with the Liverpool Arts and Regeneration Campaign, (LARC) and Liverpool Community College we are developing the Creative Apprenticeship scheme (funded by the Hamlyn Foundation, the Learning and Skills Council and Museum Libraries and Archives Council). This is an innovative way of offering young people experience and relevant NVQ’s in arts and community education management. The first apprentices are expected to start in autumn 2008.
In support of the Every Child Matters Framework, the Children First Forum was set up in mid-2005 to facilitate partnership work and share expertise between early years practitioners, carers, Sure Start Children Centres, parents, young children and arts and cultural providers. The Forum is developing a number of task groups focused on facilitating children’s creative learning and practice.
Make the Link, Break the Chain was a one year (2006-07) international project between National Museums Liverpool and Plan UK, the children’s development agency. The aim of the project was to facilitate online communication between pupils from Brazil, England, Haiti, Senegal and Sierra Leone to examine transatlantic slavery and its legacy. The students' work is showcased at the International Slavery Museum.
Our Learning Division has had a five year partnership with the Rank Foundation since September 2005. The partnership supports the academic training of a youth worker and develops young people's activities and initiatives across our venues. As a result we launched a Youth Theatre programme in 2006 and set up the Youth Advisory Panel.
National Museums Liverpool started working with a number of support agencies for refugees and asylum seekers and Liverpool City Council as early as 2002. Initial work has developed considerably thanks to funding by the Department for Education and Skills and the Baring Foundation. Engaging with Refugees and Asylum Seekers is a partnership with three other museum services: Tyne and Wear Museums, Salford Museum and Art Gallery and Leicester City Museums Service.
Youth and Migration is a three year partnership ( 2006-09) with the Norwegian Migration Center in Stavanger, linking Liverpool and Stavanger's 2008 European Capital of Culture programmes. Through creative projects across Europe young people will engage in a dialogue about migration past and present. The best work by the young people will be included in a touring exhibition, launched in 2008 in Norway and participant young people from all over the world will be invited to visit Norway in 2009.
National Museums Liverpool contributed material from our collections for the e-learning website. We also worked with the Liverpool Culture Company and five different Liverpool schools to generate dialogue about migration from and into Liverpool. Toxteth TV worked with the school students to create 5 films highlighting stories of migration. The films are shown on the 1st floor of Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.