Philip French Oral History Interview Full
Community, Exhibition, Collections, Purpose of Museums
An oral history interview from Philip French, Curator of Leicester History in Leicester Museums.He talks about his role within the museum and how it has changed and also how exhibitions and collections within Newarke Houses especially have developed. Discussion about the engagement with community groups and their involvement in exhibitions. He mentions about the purpose of a museum to educate and entertain and how this purpose has developed over the years.
Philip French
The University of Leicester's Special Collections, The East Midlands Oral History Archives
29th August 2017
This source is copyright of the University of Leicester Special Collections, Philip French and the East Midland's Oral History Archive and is digitised and published under the Creative Commons License : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
MP3
English
Oral History
The Museum Schools Service
Education, Museum School Service, Schools, Children, Loans, Aims, History
A small booklet with some information on the history of the schools service and its aims and also the history of the National Museum of Wales. Talks about various publications and the help that it gives to schools. Service confined to secondary schools because of the number of schools in Wales. Talks about the staff and set up of the service but also talks about the aims being ‘to interest, to inspire, and to teach through things’. Talks about things that are inappropriate for the service to do e.g. broadcast on air and they actually say that they do not want to be ‘complementary to the curriculum’ but to offer something different to what schools are doing. Talks about intra-mural and extra-mural services and practical considerations and some publications on sale.
The National Museum of Wales
Whole Booklet
The National Museum of Wales
1950
This source is copyright of The National Museum of Wales and is digitised and published under the Creative Commons License : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Booklet, PDF.
English, Welsh
Booklet
1950, United Kingdom, Wales, Cardiff
The Museum Schools Service
Education, Museum School Service, Schools, Children, Loans, History
A small booklet with some information on the history of the schools service and its aims and also the history of the National Museum of Wales. Talks about various publications and the help that it gives to schools. Service confined to secondary schools because of the number of schools in Wales. Talks about the staff and set up of the service but also talks about the aims being ‘to interest, to inspire, and to teach through things’. Talks about things that are inappropriate for the service to do e.g. broadcast on air and they actually say that they do not want to be ‘complementary to the curriculum’ but to offer something different to what schools are doing. Talks about intra-mural and extra-mural services and practical considerations and some publications on sale.
The National Museum of Wales
Cover, pages 3-5
The National Museum of Wales
1950
This source is copyright of The National Museum of Wales and is digitised and published under the Creative Commons License : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Booklet, PDF.
English, Welsh
Booklet
1950, United Kingdom, Wales, Cardiff