Imogen Cox Oral History Interview - Loan Collection
Museums, Education, Children, Schools, Loans
An oral history interview from Imogen Cox, a learning officer for Leicester Museums. She talksabout how the loans system stopped in the 1990s and how it requires a lot of staff in order to put on. She also argues that it may be better to have no loans system in order to atract schools and repeat visits to the museum.
Imogen Cox
The University of Leicester's Special Collections, East Midlands Oral History Archives
29th August 2017
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English
Oral History Interview
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
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
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
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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
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Booklet, PDF.
English, Welsh
Booklet
1950, United Kingdom, Wales, Cardiff
The Museum Schools Service
Education, Museum School Service, Schools, Children, Loans, Purpose
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 6-7
The National Museum of Wales
1950
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Booklet, PDF.
English, Welsh
Booklet
1950, United Kingdom, Wales, Cardiff