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
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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Read my blog:
uncatalogedmuseum.blogspot.com
Linda Norris
Riverhill
607-829-3501
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