OBJECTS IN FOCUS: TEACHERS’ RESOURCES

REACHING BEYOND THE MUSEUM WALLS

Introduction to Jewish Museum London

Jewish Museum London Learning Team

1983-1995 London Museum of Jewish Life

1995-2007Albert Street

1932Woburn House

2010 Museums merge, reopen in Camden

Jewish Museum London Learning Team

Judaism: A Living Faith History: A British Story

Arts Council England. Museums and Schools Partnership Programme

o National project across 10 regions.

o Responding to Henley Review.

o Aim for the visits is to spark young people's curiosity and encourage a lifelong passion for culture and learning.

o Jewish Museum brief was to welcome 5000 students on 3 visits to the museum. 15,000 visits in total.

o Develop ‘downloadable resources from the website and offer the opportunity for hundreds of schools to engage with the programme’.

Jewish Museum London Learning Team

Brief for Objects in Focuso Further study options to support existing workshops.

o Downloadable resources to support First World War workshop.

o Enable the Museum to extend engagement with wider audiences.

o Develop ideas that prepare, embed and extend the museum visit in a concrete and meaningful way either pre or post visit.

Jewish Museum London Learning Team

The Aims of Objects in Focus

To create a online platform that enables teachers and students to interact with beautiful and unique items from the museum’s collections.

To create a valuable pre and post visit extension resource for teachers.

To support teachers in teaching religious studies, East End history and Holocaust studies and to create cross-curricular links to enable multiple department collaboration.

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Design ConceptDesign used the ACE Quality Principles as a framework

o Designed to be used primarily in the classroom

o Visually engaging and easy to navigate

o Ease of Maintenance

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Timeline and Budget

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Budget of £5000, excluding staff time

November 2012

ACE project begins

January 2013

Fran recruited

February 2013

Objects in Focus begins

March 31st 2013

Budget signed off

October 2013

Objects in Focus goes live

March 2014

Shortlisted for M&H award

Starting a Hierarchy of Information

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Building a Template

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Choosing the Objects

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Many of these were not used.

Object Information

Next stages

o Review the objects displayed and respond to student/teacher evaluation and curriculum changes

o Increase the number of Digital Takeaways

o To test feasibility of adding audio layer

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Evaluationo Google Analyticso First 3 months 3833 page viewso Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll

o Student Response – what we discovered o Most viewed page was Kinder baby dollo We were intrigued that students wanted to see video interpretation exploring how

objects were made or usedo Students enjoyed the objects that showed more than one image of the object o The majority of the students wished to have interpretation of the objects by museum

staff.

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/objects-in-focus

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Questions

Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

Tali Krikler

Frances Jeens