Research
Children and Young People Engaging with Museums
Download GEM’s new research: 'Children and Young People Engaging with Museums', commissioned by Arts Council England. Featuring ten in-depth case studies and sector insights, this report demonstrates how vital informal museum learning is for children and young people. Read more about this research here.
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Report on Participatory Dance Project for the MUNCH
What is social choreography and what can it tell us about the public’s experience of exhibitions? In her research connected to the MUNCH exhibition Sofie’s Room, dancer and researcher Sara Wookey explores how working with participatory exhibitions creates a pathway to more inclusive, engaging museum experiences. Read more about the research here.
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Power of Stories Evaluation
Breaking record footfall at Christchurch Mansion when the exhibition was first on display, the Power of Stories project used film costumes – including those from Marvel’s Black Panther – historic museum objects, and local stories to explore storytelling and identity. Read some of the project's key findings in this illustrated evaluation.
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Precarious Movements
This freely available, online resource focuses on choreographic work in the context of the museum and addresses how we can better serve and represent the artist in this context. It is intended as a reference for artists working with museums to provide knowledge and to support their agency and autonomy in such situations. The Precarious Movement resource is also available as an open access publication.
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Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge
Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge is an ambitious research project based on the premise that performance art can be conserved.
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Creatively Minded and Heritage
How can heritage and creativity support mental health? This new report showcases work from 18 heritage and arts organisations using our wealth of heritage assets, and the creativity of artists, to improve mental health and community connections.
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Dancing Museums website
Dancing Museums was developed in two phases: Old Masters, New Traces (2015 - 2017) and The Democracy of Beings (2018 - 2021). To culminate this research project, a new website has been created to document what was discovered throughout this period as well as give the project an ongoing legacy to urge a change in the position of the audiences and artists alike within the museum context. Image Ben Harriott.
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Public Dance Pack
A free interactive Public Dance Pack that considers how to support challenging and risk-taking work within the contexts of galleries and museums. The pack includes contributions from collaborative artists and explores the cultural, practical and socio-political relationship dynamics between audience, artists and venues.
Dance and Museums working together symposium report
The Dance and Museums Working Together Symposium took place in November 2014 and was produced by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the Horniman Museum and Gardens. This external evaluation began to outline a model for the different ways in which museums and artists/arts organisations can collaborate together.
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