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The latest news for teachers and learning professionals from National Museums Liverpool.
We're developing a new feature for this website and need to understand how one of our biggest user groups - teachers - would use the system.
We've got well over a million objects in our care, ranging from microscoping plants to ships. Of these collections we currently have about 1,500 objects on our website but want to increase this number substantially. We also want to make our collections more easy searched and provide much more in depth information, so are creating a single, comprehensive online collections system. We already know that teachers use our website in their work and want the new system to meet their needs as closely as possible.
The questionnaire, which you will find here http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/57097/online-collections, basically asks how you are currently using the site and what features you would like to see. We've given you a bit of a shopping list to chose from plus the option to mention anything we've missed. There are eight questions which should take you about 5 minutes. Any feedback you could give will help us enormously and will in turn allow us to support you as best we can.
If you'd be willing to help us devise and test the system further please add your name and email address to the end of the questionnaire.
14 May to 17 August 2008
This unique and moving exhibition was originally only displayed for a week during January at Liverpool Town Hall as part of Holocaust Memorial Day 2008. Following its incredible popularity and a petition by the people of Merseyside it has been brought back for an extended period at World Museum Liverpool.
We are strongly recommending schools visit before the end of term as RESPECTacles holds an unprecedented educational value as well as being an aesthetically impressive piece of work.
The exhibition is based on the images of mounds of spectacles found in the concentration camps where they were taken from victims during the Holocaust. It is intended, however, to represent all victims of persecution, including more contemporary genocides such as Rwanda, Bosnia and the ongoing atrocities in Darfur. It aims to send out a message that we can HOPE for a better future by having, showing and insisting upon RESPECT for others and for their differences.
There are over 30,000 pairs of glasses on display, including glasses from people such as Elton John, Gordon Ramsey, Yoko Ono and Bono.
School groups visiting RESPECTacles are offered free a major educational resource pack 'The Citizen Resource: Citizenship and the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade'. To book a school visit and receive a resource pack please call the World Museum booking line on 0151 478 4296.
For more information about the exhibition please contact town.hall@liverpool.gov.uk
Community Live: Learning for All is our new brochure outlining the learning provision we offer to communities: to early years, children, young people, adults and older people, refugees and asylum seekers, and disabled people. It also contains useful contact details.
You can download a pdf version below, or if you would like us to send you a copy please complete the contact form.
Art Present was developed to engage young people at the Lady Lever Art Gallery and give added value to the learning offer for schools. Local secondary school students are recruited and trained to lead gallery tours and practical sessions to students from their feeder primary schools. The training programme successfully increases their confidence, leadership skills and knowledge of the collection.
Every autumn term since 2004, twelve junior guides have participated in the scheme. Over the last two years methods for keeping the junior guides engaged at the gallery beyond the training have proved successful. Many continue their involvement by volunteering at practical workshops during school holidays. The number of primary schools booking Art Present tours is also increasing.
In addition to the skills learned, junior guides also receive the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze level award for service and have the opportunity to complete the Arts Council England Youth Arts Award.
Teachers wishing to enter students as junior guides are invited to call Lauren Gould on 0151 478 4143.
Has your class recently visited one of our venues? Our 'My Visit to National Museums Liverpool' website is a fun way to find out what your students thought of their visit. The results will help you in your future planning and will help us to improve our learning sessions.
Simply ask each of your students to complete the web evaluation form and we will enter your school into a monthly prize draw for a free coach trip for your next visit to one of our museums or galleries.
To complete the forms your students will need to enter a password. Email our Learning team today to get your password or learn more about this evaluation project.
The popular Egyptian gallery at World Museum Liverpool is currently being refurbished and expanded. The bigger, better gallery is due to reopen later in 2008. In the meantime you can see a small temporary display of 500 objects from the Egyptian collection in the Lower Horseshoe gallery, on level 2 of World Museum Liverpool.
The former Customs and Excise Museum has now been replaced with a new gallery called 'Seized! Revenue and Customs uncovered' which opened in the basement at Merseyside Maritime Museum in May 2008.
The former Transatlantic Slavery gallery in the basement was replaced by the International Slavery Museum, located on the third floor of the Maritme Museum building, in 2007.
World Museum Liverpool’s Bug House has set up an outreach project giving schools the opportunity to run a series of experiments with stick insects. All of the experiments fit into the key stage 3 curriculums for science, maths and English.
Schools will be given all the equipment to care for their stick insects and run the experiments. The species of stick insect supplied is Carausius morosus, the Indian or laboratory stick insect. It is an easy to keep, hardy species that will feed on a wide variety of food plants. The lifecycle is completed fairly quickly enabling the schools to witness every stage in the insect’s development.
A Bug House demonstrator will visit the schools to help to set up the stick insects' vivarium and run through the experiments. The schools will also be left with a detailed pack explaining how to care for the stick insects as well step by step instructions on how to run the experiments. This includes student and teacher handouts and answer sheets.
For more information contact Jenny Dobson, Bug House Demonstrator at World Museum Liverpool on 0151 478 4576 (Monday to Friday 9am-4:30pm) or send Jenny Dobson an email.