Imogen Cox Oral History Interview - Workshop Example
Museums, Education, Children, Schools, Workshop
An oral history interview from Imogen Cox, a learning officer for Leicester Museums. She talks about the sorts of events they put on for schools including sheets, trails and workshops - many surroudning the exhibitions and the cirriculum. She then goes onto talk about a particular example of the Ancient Egyptians and how the session is ran. There is also a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of technology within these sessions.
Imogen Cox
The University of Leicester's Special Collections, East Midlands Oral History Archives
29th August 2017
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.WAV
English
Oral History Interview
Imogen Cox Oral History Interview Full
Museums, Education, Children, Schools
An oral history interview from Imogen Cox, a learning officer for Leicester Museums. She talks her role within the museum, the workshops that Leicester Museums offer and the development of the service. Talks about the importance of being 'hands on' and how technology is not making a big impact upon the learning sessions offered.
Imogen Cox
The University of Leicester's Special Collections, The East Midland's Oral History Archive
29th August 2017
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MP3
English
Oral History
Junior Museum Club Booklet: Unit Two Iron Age and Roman
Education, Children, Worksheets, Romans, Collections
Consists of 6 sheets with various drawings and questions on, focusing on the Iron Age and Roman period. The drawings encourage children to colour them in but the questions encourage them to look at the panels in order to find the answers.
Leicester Museum
All 6 woksheets
Leicester Museum
Unknown
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Educational, PDF.
English
Educational resource
Date unknown, United Kingdom, England, Leicester
Leicester Museum and the Schools
Education, Children, Museum School Serivce, Loans
A small booklet detailing the loan collections that are available to schools during this time. Talks about the museum wanting to increase the size of their child audience and so has built up ‘portable exhibits’ specifically for the schools to use. They are hoping that it will lead to more follow up visits. They also say how important it is for museums to lay on talks for schools. Images (black and white). Does say that school children have been visiting the museum for some time and that visits ‘provide visual education for the child at an age when impressions are most vividly and lastingly made’. They have a director of education.
Leicester Museum
Whole Booklet
Leicester Museum
Unknown
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
Date Unknown, United Kingdom, England, Leicester
Leicester Museum and the Schools
Education, Children, Museum School Serivce, Loans
A small booklet detailing the loan collections that are available to schools during this time. Talks about the museum wanting to increase the size of their child audience and so has built up ‘portable exhibits’ specifically for the schools to use. They are hoping that it will lead to more follow up visits. They also say how important it is for museums to lay on talks for schools. Images (black and white). Does say that school children have been visiting the museum for some time and that visits ‘provide visual education for the child at an age when impressions are most vividly and lastingly made’. They have a director of education.
Leicester Museum
Cover, page 1 and 2
Leicester Museum
Unknown
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
Date Unknown, United Kingdom, England, Leicester
Memories of the Collegiate Girls School
Being young
Liz Brandow recalls not liking the Collegiate Girls School in the 1950s.
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Interview with Liz Brandow for the East Midlands Oral History Archive. Uncatalogued.
East Midlands Oral History Archive
1950s
East Midlands Oral History Archive
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.mp3
English
Oral History
Museum Service
Education, Museum School Service, Funding, Schools, Children, Loans
A book on Derbyshire museum service showing materials used within school lessons. Foreword by George Tomlinson MP (Minister for Education). Talks about the aims of the service and how these services are important where it is difficult to take the children to museums. The Derbyshire education committee set up the School museum service in 1936 with a grant from the Carnegie UK Trust. Talks about how the function of a museum differs from that of a school. Discusses the benefits of the loans service. There is a history of the service and some details of how Derby museum cooperates with companies such as the BBC and the Museums Association. Talks about the items they have available for loan, how they catalogue them, and the people who borrow material and how they get it to them.
Derby Museum
Cover, pages 7-9
Derby Printers Ltd.
1949
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
1949, United Kingdom, England, Derby
Report of the Committee of Belfast Museums and Art Gallery
Museums, Education, Children, Schools
A booklet talking about the events and occurances witin the museum in the previous year. Paragraphs on the development of the schools service. Shows how the education department is being seen as more important as it becomes more organised and thus a more solid fixture within the staffing and museum offices.
City and County Borough of Belfast
Cover and page 9
Belfast Libraries, Museums and Arts Committee
1949
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
1949, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast
Report of the Committee of Belfast Museums and Art Gallery
Museums, Education, Children, Schools
Picture of Education workshop showing a school group's visit to a museum.
City and County Borough of Belfast
Cover and image on white page between 8 and 9
Belfast Libraries, Museums and Arts Committee
1935
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
1935, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast
Schools Services: Children in Museum
Education, Schools, Children, Collections
A booklet detailing about children within museum. It aims to answer questions like ‘What does a museum mean to children?’, how do children participate in a museum and how do museums impact upon children?
Donald Moore
Whole Booklet
The National Museum of Wales
1973
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
1973, United Kingdom, Wales, Cardiff