I'm sorry if this is a bit late, but I was on vacation.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library has had good luck with "school partnership
projects" with local schools, working primarily with middle elementary
grades (3-5). They've typically been semester or year long projects
involving a particular classroom or classrooms-teacher support is essential.
They have all been done during the school day, typically meeting weekly or
biweekly. Each of the projects has had a theme, such as mapping, poetry, or
Ben Franklin. Some have been tied to exhibitions, while others are simply
collections-based. The projects typically involve some work with our
collections, combined with creative work on the part of the kids towards
achieving a final project. For example, the mapping projects involved
looking at a variety of different types of maps in our collections, then the
kids worked together to create a map of their neighborhood, drawing pictures
of things they thought were important, researching local historic sites, and
then fitting it together on map, which we then had printed. One of the
poetry projects involved collections material from Lewis Carroll to Langston
Hughes, with the students writing their own nonsense poetry, making puppets,
and staging a nonsense poetry puppet show.
Hope this is helpful. We recently switched educators so we didn't do any
partnerships this year, but the former educator who worked with school
partnerships was Bill Adair-he's now working for the Heritage Philadelphia
Program, which is part of the Pew Trusts, and I'm sure you could contact him
there for more info.
Katherine Haas
Curatorial Assistant
Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008-2010 Delancey Place
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: 215-732-1600 X129
Fax: 215-545-7529
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Hello All--
(Please forgive cross--postings). For an interpretive planning project, I'm
interested in learning about partnerships and collaborations that museums of
all types might have with schools that are in the neighborhood. Next door,
down the street--close enough that students could walk. I'd like to know
how partnerships are developed and sustained, do teacher and/or parent
advisory committees work, have museums found in-school or after-school
programming to be most engaging for parents and children, whether exhibits
or programs are most effective in attracting audiences, and in general, any
advice you might have.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Linda Norris
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