Manchester Museum - Collective Conversations
Collective Conversations is a community engagement project that has been running for several years to widen participation and has engaged diverse groups in conversation using museum objects. These conversations are filmed and uploaded to Youtube.
Wilbraham Primary school visited the museum in July 2009 and groups of children (4 -7 yrs) were filmed handling and talking about objects from Nature Discovery - a new gallery at Manchester Museum for young children and families(part of the Darwin festival). View a short film of the children's responses here.
Martenscroft nursery school and SureStart centre. These conversations were filmed at the end of a series of visits and show the children handling animals from the natural history collection and feature a painting they did at the centre with an artist based on their visits to the natural history galleries and vivarium. View a short film of the under 5's play session at Manchester Museum here.
View a film here of children from Gorton South SureStart children's centre handling live animals from the Vivarium at Manchester Museum with curator Andrew Gray.