Museum Education Work

Education Work in Museums and Heritage Sites

...which is sometimes difficult to separate from Interpretation and Performance work in such places, so please see those too

• I have worked for English Heritage, The National Trust, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum,
  and a wealth of regional museums from Tullie House in Carlisle to Dover Museum and many between.
  
  
• I have had regular bookings from museums who have their "Tudor Week" or "Victorian Week" events, with schools visiting in groups;
  
• I have worked in museums with special needs groups, including a music workshop for the profoundly deaf;
  
• with Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, with museum clubs;
• I've worked indoors, and out of doors, (but with arrangements in case of rain - I don't like wet instruments!)
  
• I've presented a Tudor Masque in the Great Hall at Longleat, and had early KS 2 children performing medieval music under tent cover in the rain at Chichele College in Northamptonshire,
• I've presented myself as a musician visiting the Victorian household in Stacey Bushes Museum in Milton Keynes
• or as a third person interpreter offering a range of Victorian activities at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire for the NT.
• and a lot more!
  
  
  My work can be for any of the periods I cover: Medieval, Tudor, 17th Century, and Victorian/19th century.
  It's generally using the same approach as you'll see on the other pages in this section under the various KS and period headings, adapted to the time and place requirements of the site I'm working:
  - Carlisle's Tullie House, in conjunction with English Heritage, favours four groups a day, with short sessions for their Tudor Week.
  - Kettering Manor House Museum favours two longer sessions a day for both Victorian and Tudor school visits.
  - The Blackden Trust, in Cheshire, in an all adult session, only has room to fit around a dozen people into the working space at the Medicine House.
  
  
  The main difference between most direct to school visits and most museum school group visits is that children visiting museums tend to have to get back on a bus, so the sessions are necessarily shorter!
  I offer a flexible approach and wide experience, and am always willing to discuss new ideas with education officers.