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Community museums as spaces of care
Dr Nuala Morse, Research Associate, University of Manchester / UCL
7 December 2016
A framework of care for museums
A framework for community museums
Museums in Health
A framework of care for museums
SPACES
LANDSCAPES
ETHICS
Will you be coming to the next session?
I am constantly looking for signs and getting a general idea for what the feel is when you get in a room. And I suppose you respond to that in the way you think is the best way
Lightly she touches her hand
Textures of care in the museum - Extracts
A framework of care for museums
SPACES
LANDSCAPES
ETHICS
Spaces of Care (in community engagement work)
Care as “the proactive interest of one person in the well-being of another and as the articulation of that interest (or affective stance) in practical ways” (Conradson, 2003)
Spaces of care as safe spaces
Spaces of care as spaces of support (emotional and practical)
The ‘museumness’ of care
Other spaces of care in the museums?
A framework of care for museums
SPACES
LANDSCAPES
ETHICS
• The Wellbeing Programme – for people with mental health issues and stroke survivors, taking place both in the museum and in community or hospital spaces.
• The Recovering Identities through Culture and Heritage (RICH) Programme for people in recovery (including substance misuse and people in the justice system), taking place both in the museum and in community spaces.
• The Platinum Programme – for older people, including people with dementia and their carers. Session take place both in the museum, in hospital and care homes.
• The Satellite Community Exhibitions programmes – which support local heritage and community organisations to develop museum-like activities in their own spaces.
“We are helping these big organisations to meet whatever their aims are [...] One of the ways is doing really positive activities and positive experiences like peer socialising - and it might be building up their skills, their confidence, and their self-esteem: all of those things are part of a package that helps people to either be abstinent or to be more stable….
we are part of that package - we are not saying that we help people solely to do that, but [...] we are like a link in that chain”
• Camic, P and Chatterjee, HC (2013) Museums and Art Galleries as partners for public health interventions, Perspectives in Public Health.
• Work shadowing and cross-sector training
• Aligning project aims to deliver impact
• Joint approaches to measuring impact
A framework of care for museums
SPACES
LANDSCAPES
ETHICS
Taking care of place
A framework of care for museums
SPACES
LANDSCAPES
ETHICS
Against a careless society
Spaces of …Landscapes of .... Ethics of ...
(Museum) Care
Nearly all of use care, because we ourselves know what it means to have our hearts cut away by life…
Kingslover, 2002)
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