Events and Training

Renaissance North West runs a programme of FREE workshops that examine key issues facing museums. Contributors from all over the country have shared experiences - good and bad - about programmes they have developed, partnerships they have formed and how the projects have impacted on their organisation and audiences. This year there have been four themed workshops:

• Live interpretation in museums
• Dynamic rationalisaiton
• Artists in museums
• Telling Tales: Thematic Display Making

We filmed the Live Interpretation in Museums workshop that took place in June 2007. To view video clips from this event, click here: http://www.silversmoke.co.uk/hub/menu.htm There is a transcription for the video attached below.

Summaries of the discussions and presentations from the Dynamic Rationalisation and Telling Tales: Thematic Display Making events are attached below.

Events calendar:

7 April, 12 May and 2 June, Pest Management, FREE, various locations; for the one nearest you contact Diane Rushbrook,

8 April, 13 May and 3 June, Environmental Monitoring, FREE, various locations; for the one nearest you, contact Diane Rushbrook as above

24 April, Archives in Museums, FREE, MLA North West Offices, Warrington, contact Diane Rushbrook as above

7 May, Storytelling as a technique for developing family audiences, FREE, Lancashire Conservation Studios, contact Diane Rushbrook as above

15 May, North West Federation Annual General Meeting followed by Shout It From the Rooftops session, Atkinson Art Gallery and Southport Arts Centre, contact: Emma Varnam, [email protected] or visit www.nwfed.org.uk

16 May, 4pm, Do Museums Matter? A Museums & Galleries Month debate, FREE, Urbis, Manchester, contact Jennie Crawford j

20 May (1 – 4:30 PM), Launch of Museums Association Disposals Toolkit, FREE, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, contact Jennie Crawford as above

21 May, (10:30 – 2PM) Museums Association Sustainable Collections workshop FREE, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, contact Jennie Crawford as above

30 May, Working with Large Objects, FREE, Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, contact Kaye Tetlow

6 June, Writing for the Public (and displays), FREE, MLA North West Offices, Warrington contact Diane Rushbrook as above

10 June, Storytelling as a techniques for developing family audiences, FREE, Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, contact Diane Rushbrook as above

11 June, After Accreditation: What Next for Documentation? FREE, MLA North West Offices, Warrington, contact Diane Rushbrook as above

24 June (1 - 4:30 PM), Launch of Museums Association Disposals Toolkit, FREE, Manchester Museum, to book a place ring the MA on 020 74266955

25 June (10:30 – 2PM), Museums Association Sustainable Collections workshop, FREE, Manchester Museum, to book a place ring the MA on 020 74266955

2 July, Labeling and Marking, FREE, MLA North West Offices, Warrington, contact Diane Rushbrook as above

17 July, Working with Costume, FREE, Lancashire Conservation Studios, Preston, contact Kaye Tetlow as above