Diaspora Representation in UK Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums: Exploring Community-Led Collections-Based Research (DiaGLAM)

Lead Research Organisation: National Museums Scotland
Department Name: Global Arts, Cultures and Design

Abstract

The AHRC-funded project 'Diaspora Representation in UK Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums: Exploring Community-Led Collections-Based Research' will commence in September 2021, led by Dr John Giblin (National Museums Scotland) and Dr Robert Blyth (National Maritime Museum). This project will study collections-based participatory research methods with a range of community groups and Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) to inform best practice and increase EDI in the UK sector. For this pilot phase, the project will work with South Asian, African and African Caribbean Diaspora community groups in partnership with GLAMs. Diaspora community groups will direct research design, implementation and production of creative outputs using relevant historic and contemporary collections, including those collected as part of British imperial activity. Individual projects will explore and represent the multiplicity of experiences of empire, migration and life in Britain and in so doing will challenge and enhance established representations. Through this work, the project will also explore the relevance of world history collections and museum engagements for Diaspora communities.

The project will follow a Hub and Spoke model. National Museums Scotland (NMS) and the National Maritime Museum (NMM) will act as the Hub gathering and evaluating evidence, providing museum expert guidance, and holding a central fund that will be distributed to GLAM Spoke partners' Diaspora-led projects. The project will foster greater cross-sector collaboration, build capacity, and co-produce a range of creative outputs. It will prioritise gathering and sharing evidence on best practice in co-creation and co-participation in heritage and culture research, specifically through surfacing polyphonic voices and diverse narratives from across communities and supporting GLAM organisations to engage with them for mutual benefit. This will be achieved through the longitudinal evaluation work shared through a public facing legacy document and through a sector knowledge-sharing event, which will present knowledge from co-creation and co-participation for more nuanced public and sector debate.

Publications

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Shani Whyte (2022) Tying the Tides: The Colour within the SS Great Britain

 
Title A Wartime Poster's Painful Truth 
Description National Museum of the Royal Navy made a film about their community participants Exchange collections research into a poster in their collection. They published the film on Youtube and may use it in future interpretation. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact 291 views on Youtube. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjaOfiPkeX0
 
Title Conservation and Display of 'Appreciating the Situation' 
Description National Museum of the Royal Navy's (NMRN) communtiy participants researched a painting, 'Appreciating the Situation', in the museum's stores that represented a South Asian man - through their research they were able to identify the painter and individual and to connect the painting with the subject's living family. Exchange funded the conservation of the painting so that it can be displayed in the museum. They also made and published a film about the project, linked below. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact 233 views of the film on Youtube. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10lxiRqAmBM
 
Title David Livingstone Tingatinga Sculpture 
Description One of the creative outputs of David Livingstone Birthplace Museum's (DLBM) Exchange project was a Tingatinga sculpture by the artist Josie Ko. Josie was inspired by the Exchange collections-based research to produce the piece which was displayed at DLBM's Exchange community event and was then acquired into the permanent collection for future display. Ko's painting brings to the fore the hidden figures in Livingstone's story, complementing the object-based research the group carried out and the film they commissioned about the urn, which will go on permanent display. Joise Ko is a Glasgow based sculpture artist who brings together a kitsch DIY aesthetic full of colour and humour with dark gothic undertones. Tingatinga is named after its founder Tanzanian painter Edward Said Tingatinga, Tingatinga paintings capture the east African landscape and are traditionally painted on found objects with very limited resources. Ko has focused on east African animals painted with dots as is traditional for Tingatinga, in the centre she has included an oil painting inspired by the David Livingstone memorial. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The artwork was so successful that it was acquired into the collection for posterity. 
 
Title Discovering SS Great Britain: Bristol Stories, Personal Journeys 
Description SS Great Britain's community participants created an outdoor year long exhibition of their Exchange community-led collections research results. The exhibition is displayed outside the SS Great Britiain site on Brunel Square so it is free to view. The exhibition tells the story of the research and the findings. A second more compact version of the exhibition was also displayed at the Hannah Moore Primary School, a community partner on the project. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Positive feedback from schools visiting the site. 
URL https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/things-to-do/9793-2/
 
Title Discovery Box 
Description The community participants at SS Great Britain incorporated their research results into a 'Discovery Box' that focuses on food and life on board the ship; the box contains representations of the weekly rations that steerage passengers must have consumed such as ship's biscuits, that can be handled along with craft activities centred around typical children's pastimes of the period. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The community participants used the box at a Holiday Play Day organised by the Hannah Moore School in July and it was well received and changed understandings of the SSGB and life at sea more generally. 
 
Title Exhibition/Trail: We Are Here: Inspirational Women' 
Description Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums' (TWAM) community group decided to investigate women of colour in the TWAM collections but found limited resources so decided to conduct their own contemporary ethnographic research to enhance the archive by identifying, researching and interviewing 16 contemporary women in their community. An outcome of that research was the Exhibition/Trail at TWAM's Discovery Museum, which was launched at an invite only event attended by the 16 women and their families and local dignatories and then introduced as a permanent feature into the galleries told through interpretation panels with new portrait photography. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The exhibition/trail has been so successful that it is now going on tour to other venues in the region, currently in Durham, and TWAM have decided to expand the Exhibition/Trail at the Discovery Museum. 
URL https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/we-are-here-inspirational-women
 
Title Interfaith Ceremony Film 
Description Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM) community participants decided to hold an interfaith ceremony as part of the Exchange project on the banks of the River Tyne with talks from local faith leaders and members of the steering group to pay respects to ancestors who travelled from India to the Caribbean as part of the Indian Indentureship system. TWAM commissioned a film of this event which will be incorporated into the archive and permanent galleries. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The acquisition of the film into the archive and gallery is a demonstration of its legacy. 
 
Title Lascar Stationary 
Description Our Shared Cultural Heritage (OSCH), one of the South Asian community groups who worked with Glasgow Life on their Exchange project, created stationary for sale and distribution that was inspired by their Exchange collections research into the Lascar Plaque, the earliest evidence of South Asian presence in Scotland. the illustrations for the stationary were created by OSCH and then prinited on to the stationary. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The process was a form of career development for OSCH, designing, developing, making and bringing a heritage/art product to market. 
 
Title Lascari Performance on Tall Ship, Gasgow 
Description Glasgow Life's community participants were inspired by their collections research about a Lascar Placque to create a dramatisation of early South Asian sailors (lascars) and to perfrom it twice on the Tall Ship in Glasgow. The Bangladeshi Association Glasgow researched, wrote, directed and performed a play titled 'Lascari' on The Tall Ship. Originally intended to form part of the Bhasha Language Festival in Glasgow, the performance focused on the lives and experiences of Lascar mariners and included two pop-up displays of the plaque and a selection of rarely seen items from Glasgow Museums' collections. The drama was filmed. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The performance was widely reported and sold out both performances: https://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/theatre-arts/news/bangla-heritage-story-lascari-be-staged-the-glasgow-tomorrow-3033746 
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lascari-premiere-tickets-338510422787
 
Title My Home, My Bari 
Description Museum of the Home's community participants worked with a renowned local artist, Rahemur Rahman, to deliver a series of workshops with young people of Bangladeshi heritage to collect their and their families' stories of home. The participants drew upon the content of the interviews to create textiles and objects to form part of a new pop-up bedroom display, My Home, My Bari at the museum. The artwork allows visitors to step back in time with a multi-sensory art installation using smells, sights, and textures to bring history to life through a representation of the bedrooms of the British-Bangladeshi community around East London, and allows their stories to be recognised, honoured, and heard. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact None known yet but still collecting visitor figures and evaluation information. 
URL https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-and-installations/my-home-my-bari/
 
Title Respect! Caribbean life in Edinburgh 
Description 'Respect! Caribbean life in Edinburgh' was an exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh, which is run by Museums and Galleries Edinburgh (MGE), one of the Exchange project partners. 'Respect' was created by Edinburgh Caribbean Association, MGE's community partners, in collaboration with MGE and supported by Exchange. The exhibition celebrated the culture of Caribbean Scottish people through museum objects, poetry, music and film.The exhibition explored what it is like to grow up in the Caribbean, what it means to be Caribbean, Caribbean links with Scotland and how Caribbean food and music has influenced British culture. The items on display were chosen by members of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association to share their stories with museum visitors. A Spotify playlist was also created so visitors could enjoy a full range of Caribbean music. The exhibition was free to enter and was installed for six months. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Over 20,000 visitors visited the exhibition over its life. Evaluation results are still being processed. Anecdotally, 'Respect' has had a positive impact for Scotland and espcially Edinburgh's Caribbean community members and has enhanced the woder populations knowledge about Caribbean life in Scotland. 
URL https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/respect-caribbean-life-edinburgh#:~:text=life%20in%20Ed...
 
Title Susi and Chuma Film 
Description At teh rewuest of their community participants, David Livingstone Birthplace Museum (DLBM) commissioned a film by the storyteller and artist, Mara Menzies. The film was a dramatisation exploring the objects that belonged to David Livingstone's crew members, Susi and Chuma, which the community participants had researched during their Exchange project. The film was first shown at DLBM's Echange community outreach event and has latterly been placed on permanent display in the museum. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The introduction of the film into the permanent galleries demonstrates its importance to the museum. 
 
Title The Mystery Behind the Painting 
Description National Museum of the Royal Navy made a film about their communtiy participants collections research into the painting 'Appreciating the Situation' and published the film on Youtube. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The film has has 233 views on Youtube. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10lxiRqAmBM
 
Title The ship with two names 
Description National Museums of the Royal Navy made a film about their community participants' Exchange collections research into one of their ships, HMS Trincomalee. They published the film on Youtube and may use it in their interpretation. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The film has been viewed 1,400 times on Youtube. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1mbd_gVIXg
 
Title Tingatinga Zine 
Description David Livingstone Birthplace Museum's (DLBM) community participants authored a Tingatinga zine (small magazine) that documented the research and explored untold stories in the collection through creative writing. The zine was distributed for free at DLBM's Exchange community outreach event. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact None known yet. 
 
Description Exchange: David Livingstone Birthplace Museum 
Organisation David Livingstone Centre
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution David Livingstone Birthplace Museum was one of seven project partners that Exchange funded and supported to undertake community-led collections research and to participate in Exchange evaluation activities. Exchange provided expertise, training and funding.
Collaborator Contribution David Livingstone Birthplace Museum (DLBM) undertook community-led collections based research with African, Caribbean and South Asian diaspora heritage community members in collaboration with Exchange. Through their project, one of seven project partners in the UK, Exchange was able to undertake evaluation activities with their participants to explore the central Exchange research question - how can community-led collections research be more equitable for diaspora heritage community members? DLBM provided staff time, expertise intellectual input, training and access to collections, collections information, equipment and facilities.
Impact 1. Tingatinga Day at David Livingstone Birthplace Museum (DLBM) to share project results 2. Two storytelling and mbila (xylophone) workshops led by Gamelu Todzoro 3. Film by the storyteller and artist, Mara Menzies. Dramatisation exploring the objects that belonged to David Livingstone's crew members, Susi and Chuma. 4. Zine, riso printed booklet documenting the research project and exploring untold stories in the museum collections. 5. Artwork installation by artist Josie Ko inspired by collections research, exhibited at Tingatinga Day and acquired into DLBM collection
Start Year 2021
 
Description Exchange: Glasgow Life 
Organisation Glasgow Life
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Glasgow Life was one of seven project partners that Exchange funded and supported to undertake community-led collections research and to participate in Exchange evaluation activities. Exchange provided expertise, training and funding.
Collaborator Contribution Glasgow Life (GL) undertook community-led collections-based research with South Asian diaspora heritage community members in collaboration with Exchange. Through their project, one of seven project partners in the UK, Exchange was able to undertake evaluation activities with their participants to explore the central Exchange research question - how can community-led collections research be more equitable for diaspora heritage community members? GL provided staff time, expertise intellectual input, training and access to collections, collections information, equipment and facilities.
Impact 1. Two performances of 'Lascari' on the Tall Ship - a play researched, written, directed and performed by Bangladesh Association Glasgow 2. Two pop-up displays 3. One community seminar 4. A spoken-word poetry film 5. A zine 6. A series of blogs 7. A series of illustrations, printed onto a range of stationery 8. One consultation event 9. Display and engagement led by OSCH participants at Glasgow Mela
Start Year 2021
 
Description Exchange: Museum of the Home 
Organisation The Geffrye Museum of the Home
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Museum of the Home was one of seven project partners that Exchange funded and supported to undertake community-led collections research and to participate in Exchange evaluation activities. Exchange provided expertise, training and funding.
Collaborator Contribution Museum of the Home (MotH) undertook community-led collections-based research with South Asian diaspora heritage community members in collaboration with Exchange. Through their project, one of seven project partners in the UK, Exchange was able to undertake evaluation activities with their participants to explore the central Exchange research question - how can community-led collections research be more equitable for diaspora heritage community members? MotH provided staff time, expertise intellectual input, training and access to collections, collections information, equipment and facilities.
Impact 1. Oral history interviews 2. A film 3. An exhibition
Start Year 2021
 
Description Exchange: Museums and Galleries Edinburgh 
Organisation City of Edinburgh Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Museums and Galleries Edinburgh was one of seven project partners that Exchange funded and supported to undertake community-led collections research and to participate in Exchange evaluation activities. Exchange provided expertise, training and funding.
Collaborator Contribution Museums and Galleries Edinburgh (MGE) undertook community-led collections-based research with Caribbean diaspora heritage community members from Edinburgh Caribbean Association in collaboration with Exchange. Through their project, one of seven project partners in the UK, Exchange was able to undertake evaluation activities with their participants to explore the central Exchange research question - how can community-led collections research be more equitable for diaspora heritage community members? MGE provided staff time, expertise intellectual input, training and access to collections, collections information, equipment and facilities.
Impact 1. A film 2. An exhibition 3. An exhibition opening event 4. Creative writing completed by the group 5. A Spotify playlist 6. An exhibition public programme
Start Year 2021
 
Description Exchange: National Museum of the Royal Navy 
Organisation National Museum of the Royal Navy
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution National Museum of the Royal Navy was one of seven project partners that Exchange funded and supported to undertake community-led collections research and to participate in Exchange evaluation activities. Exchange provided expertise, training and funding.
Collaborator Contribution National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) undertook community-led collections-based research with South Asian diaspora heritage community members from Chat over Chai in collaboration with Exchange. Through their project, one of seven project partners in the UK, Exchange was able to undertake evaluation activities with their participants to explore the central Exchange research question - how can community-led collections research be more equitable for diaspora heritage community members? NMRN provided staff time, expertise intellectual input, training and access to collections, collections information, equipment and facilities.
Impact 1. 3 x Films 2. Poster 3. Conserved painting to go on permanent display 4. Celebration Event and Hackathon
Start Year 2021
 
Description Exchange: Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 
Organisation Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums was one of seven project partners that Exchange funded and supported to undertake community-led collections research and to participate in Exchange evaluation activities. Exchange provided expertise, training and funding.
Collaborator Contribution Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM) undertook community-led collections-based research with African, Caribbean and South Asian diaspora heritage community members in collaboration with Exchange. Through their project, one of seven project partners in the UK, Exchange was able to undertake evaluation activities with their participants to explore the central Exchange research question - how can community-led collections research be more equitable for diaspora heritage community members? DLBM provided staff time, expertise intellectual input, training and access to collections, collections information, equipment and facilities.
Impact 1. Permanent exhibition/trail 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women'. 16 local women's stories told through interpretation panels, most with new portrait photography. 2. 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women' launch event held on 16th July. 3. Meree Yaatra, Hamaaree Yaatra - My Journey, Our Journey. An in-person and online hybrid event on 17th July looking at the topic of Indian Indentured Labourers through the lens of family history. 4. Inter-faith ceremony held on the banks of the River Tyne with talks from local faith leaders and members of the steering group to pay respects to ancestors who travelled from India to the Caribbean as part of the Indian Indentureship system. 5. Film of Inter-faith ceremony event
Start Year 2021
 
Description Do You Actually Know SS Great Britain 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact One fo the community participants working with SS Great Britain chose to share her research with her community in Bristol through a leaflet titled: 'Do You Actually Know SS Great Britain'. The leaflet was produced to introduce community members to the ship 'and tell its story in a simple and easy way' - as well as history it also includes information about diverse people who were on board the ship, and children's activities and games for parents and carers. The leaflet was distributed to the Hannah Moore Primary School and the broader community. One of the impacts was to change community perpsectives of the SS Great Britian which is widely but wrongly believed to be used for transporting enslaved people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Exchange Scotsman Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact In response to a media enquiry from the Scotsman newspaper, Exchange PI Dr John Giblin and Hub Manager Yahya Barry authored an article for the Scotsman newspaper to promote the project nationally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/were-revisiting-our-stories-of-empire-in-museums-an...
 
Description Exchange Webpage (NMS) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An Exchange project webpage was launched on National Museums Scotland's website and has reported high traffic compared to other project pages.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/our-research/current-research/exchange/
 
Description Exchange: End of Project Focus Groups 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Exchange held two end of project focus groups for project participants (museums and community members). The focus groups brought projects separated geographically and institutionally into conversation to reflect on the main Exchange research question, how can community-led collections-based research be more equitable? In so doing, institutions and community groups reported peer-to-peer learning that woudl influence future participatory work and the focus groups were valuable for the Exchange evaluation. The Exchange team organised the invitations, event production, evaluation activities and remuneration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Exchange: End of Project Sector Sharing Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The purpose of the Exchange: End of Project Sector Sharing Day was to share the results of the seven partner projects with the UK museum and academic sector professional practitioners and to share the draft recommendations emerging from the project about how to make community-led collections-based research more equitable for diaspora heritage community members. The first half of the day focused on presentations from museum and community participants about their projects and was followed by an Exchange presentation and discussion about the recommendations. The Exchange team were responsible for event production, invitations and advertising, presentations, programming and remuneration. The participants benefitted by developing presentation skills and confidence around their projects, the sector benefitted through awareness of projects as case studies and recommendations, and the Exchange evaluation benefitted through feedback and discussion about the draft recommendations, which were refined after the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Exchange: Knowledge Sharing Event (1) - Sharing Learning from Exchange 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Exchange: Knowledge Sharing Event (1) - Sharing Learning from Exchange was the first of four public, sector facing training events to share learning from Exchange to support future community-led collections-based research and the proposed AHRC National Hub. The first half of the event was a presentation about the final recommendations from Exchange 1.0 and the second half was a facilitated discussion with Exchange museum and community participants and external practitioners and an audience Q&A. The evaluation of this event is in process. The Exchange team organised the invites, adverts, event production, programming and remuneration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Exchange: Midway Project Sharing Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Exchange: Midway Project Sharing Day was an online event for all partner organisations and community participants to attend and share progress on their community-led collections-based research projects and outputs. The day also served as an evaluation event for the Exchange research project. The first half of the day consisted of partner presentations and the second half of the day consisted of evaluation activities. The projects reported that the day benefited them through peer-to-peer sharing and learning and consultation with the Exchange team. The Exchange evaluation benefitted through the data collected during the evaluation activities.

The Exchange team organised the day including programme, invites, presentations, recording, event production, remuneration and evaluation activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Inspiration Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Staff from seven museum and gallery partners and members of diaspora heritage community groups, who they are collaborating with for this research project, attended an online day during which they and external speakers from the museum and gallery sector shared their experiences of participatory approaches to collections-based research and creative outputs to provide inspiration for their respective project developments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Interfaith Ceremony 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums' (TWAM) community participants chose to research Indian indetured labourers represented in TWAM's collections as part of their Exchange community-led collections research. To connect their research with their faith, the community participants held an inter-faith ceremony on the banks of the River Tyne with talks from local faith leaders and members of the steering group to pay respects to ancestors who travelled from India to the Caribbean as part of the Indian Indentureship system.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Meree Yaatra, Hamaaree Yaatra - My Journey, Our Journey. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums' (TWAM) community participants chose to research Indian indentured labourers represented in TWAM's collection for their Exchange communuity-led collections-based research. To explore this topic and share their results with their community, they held Meree Yaatra, Hamaaree Yaatra - My Journey, Our Journey -a n in-person and online hybrid event on 17th July 2022 looking at the topic of Indian Indentured Labourers through the lens of family history.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Museums Association Conference Exchange Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Exchange (Hub and museum and community participants) presented and workshopped the Exchange project case studies and recommendations with an audience at the Museums Association Conference 2022, the largest museum professional body in the UK. The intention was to disseminate findings from Exchange to the professional sector to develop practice. Exchange team facilitated the workshop which was designed by museum and community participants and funded participation at the event including remuneration. The workshop was over subscribed, sparked questions and discussion during and afterwards and follow up interest from the sector after the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.museumsassociation.org/conference-2022-content/
 
Description Partner Workshop (DLBM) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Approximately 15 local diaspora community members and museum staff from David Livingstone Birthplace Museum (DLBM), National Museums Scotland and National Maritime Museum attended an online workshop focused on DLMB collections and how to develop a programme of community-led collections based research and creative outputs. From this workshop the community members and DLMB staff developed a successful funding proposal for their project, which Exchange has funded.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Partner Workshop (EMG) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Over 20 local diaspora community members and museum staff from Edinburgh Museums and Galleries (EMG), National Museums Scotland and National Maritime Museum attended an online workshop focused on EMG collections and how to develop a programme of community-led collections based research and creative outputs. From this workshop the community members and EMG staff developed a successful funding proposal for their project, which Exchange has funded.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Partner Workshop (GL) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Approximately 15 local diaspora community members and museum staff from Glasgow Life (GL), National Museums Scotland and National Maritime Museum attended an online workshop focused on GL collections and how to develop a programme of community-led collections based research and creative outputs. From this workshop the community members and GL staff developed a successful funding proposal for their project, which Exchange has funded.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Partner Workshop (NMRN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Approximately 20 local diaspora community members and museum staff from National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN), National Museums Scotland and National Maritime Museum attended an online workshop focused on NMRN collections and how to develop a programme of community-led collections based research and creative outputs. From this workshop the community members and NMRN staff developed a successful funding proposal for their project, which Exchange has funded.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Partner Workshop (SSGB) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Approximately 10 local diaspora community members and museum staff from SS Great Britain (SSGB), National Museums Scotland and National Maritime Museum attended an in-person workshop focused on SSGB collections and how to develop a programme of community-led collections based research and creative outputs. From this workshop the community members and SSGB staff developed a successful funding proposal for their project, which Exchange has funded.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Partner Workshop (TWAM x 2) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Approximately 20 local diaspora community members and museum staff from Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM), National Museums Scotland and National Maritime Museum attended two online workshops focused on TWAM collections and how to develop a programme of community-led collections based research and creative outputs. From these workshops the community members and TWAM staff developed a successful funding proposal for their project, which Exchange has funded.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Press Release 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Press release about project shared with sector focused media.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2021/11/museums-team-up-on-research-project-...
 
Description Scotland's Lascar Heritage Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Glasgow Life's community participants organised and presented at two community seminar events, including 'Scotland's Lascar Heritage' exploring the lives of 'lascars' - South Asian seamen - and their longstanding connections to Scotland. Presentations were made by academics, community members, project participants, curators and former lascars. The event served to share a more rounded, richer view of lascars and to connect the deeper past of the Lascar Placque which was researched for the Exchange project, with contemporary lascar issues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Storytelling and Mbila (Xylophone) Workshops 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact David Livingstone Birthplace Museum's (DLBM) community participants organised two storytelling and mbila (xylophone) workshops facilitated by Gamelu Todzoro from the University of Glasgow. Gamelu is an expert practioner in traditional African musical instruments and story telling and was able to bring contemporary cultural context to the research of the community participants, including their research into musical instruments in the museum's collection, and connected local audiences with those histories, stories and objects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Tingatinga Party 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact David Livingstone Birthplace Museum's (DLBM) community participants held a Tingatinga party to launch their creatiev outputs (film and artwork) that were inspired by their Exchange community-led collections based research. Tingtinga is a type of artwork from East Africa named after its founder Edward Tingatinga. The party was free to attend, recieved Scottish media coverage and was attended by over 350 people. It included East African food, workshop and performances. The audience was multi-cultural bringing people fo African and Caribbean heritage from Glasgow who had not visited the museum before and it engages majority white audiences with East African culture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk/events/tingatinga-party/
 
Description UK Martime Heritage Network Forum 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Exchange Hub and partners (inc. National Museum of the Royal Navy) presented the Exchange project and recommendations to the Maritime Heritage Network (MHN) Subject Specialist Network (SSN) to support future community-led collections based research projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/event/nhs/uk-maritime-heritage-forum-2022-sea-change-challe...