Diaspora Representation in UK Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums: Exploring Community-Led Collections-Based Research (DiaGLAM)
Lead Research Organisation:
National Museums of 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.
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.
Organisations
- National Museums of Scotland (Lead Research Organisation)
- The Geffrye Museum of the Home (Collaboration)
- Glasgow Life (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- David Livingstone Centre (Collaboration)
- Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (Collaboration)
- National Museum of the Royal Navy (Collaboration)
- CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Museum of the Home (Project Partner)
- David Livingstone Birthplace Museum (Project Partner)
- Edinburgh Museums & Galleries (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
| John Giblin (Principal Investigator) | |
| Robert Blyth (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Giblin J D
(2023)
Exchange Recommendations For More Equitable Participation
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 | DLBM - Clementine Ewokolo Burnley printed publication |
| Description | Creative Output with Clementine Ewokolo Burnley printed publication 'Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a writer, public storyteller, and community worker who the participants identified as someone they wanted to work with during EXCHANGE 1.0 but due to budget and time constraints this was not possible. Since EXCHNAGE 1.0 community participant Natasha Ruwona has been in conversation with Clementine. In the publication Clementine recounts her own family history and lived experiences and the various intersections with David Livingstone. The publication builds on Clementine's presentation with Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher, and curator. Natasha Thembiso Ruwona as part of the Skinny event at DLB. Natasha is one of the DLB community participants. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None reported yet. |
| Title | DLBM - Exhibit of Josie KO Painting |
| Description | Installation and interpretation of painting from participant Josie KO. Within the permanent museum exhibition, a mixed media painting by Josie KO entitled 'Glittering Hidden Figures' installation The painting was acquired by DLBM thanks to NMS Acquisition fund. Participants oversaw the installation of the artwork and wrote the object label and interpretation. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The painting has been installed in DLBM's permanent gallery where it shares the results of the project publicly. |
| Title | DLBM - Touchscreen Exhibit |
| Description | The creation of a new touchscreen exhibit within the permanent exhibition. A new touch screen Exhibit co-curated by participants. Participants developed ways of integrating the research and creative outputs into the permanent exhibition at DLBM through new forms of interpretation. The emphasis was placed on bringing community partner voice directly into the exhibition space. The wall text was written by the participants and the design and content was decided by the participants within the framework provided by the designers. The touchscreen includes assets from EXCHANGE 1.0: The project Zine, film by Mara Menzies, documentation from the Tinga Tinga Party as well as images of the Urn from electronic imaging undertaken at NMS Lab. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Touchscreen is providing permanent legacy of the project in DLBM public galleries. |
| 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 | Glasgow Life - Lascar Sailor Podcast |
| Description | Glasgow Life - Podcast https://soundcloud.com/glasgowmuseums/season-4-episode-3-lascar-research-project discussing the project and wider topic of Lascar sailors (April 2023) |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | c. 282 listens. |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/glasgowmuseums/season-4-episode-3-lascar-research-project |
| Title | Glasgow Life - Lascars and Us Film |
| Description | Short film titled "Lascars and Us" which documents the project, the research work which informed the production of the drama "LASCARi" and the wider background to the work of South Asian mariners in Scotland. Launched June 2023. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The launch event for the film reached 80 people. |
| Title | Indian Indentureship and the Links to the North East and Shipbuilding Permanent Exhibition - Discovery Museum - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
| Description | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums created a permanent exhibition at their Discovery Museum to share their research into Indian Indentureship and the Links to the North East and Shipbuilding. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | No visitor figures currently available. |
| URL | https://www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/news/north-east-links-to-indentured-indian-labour-now-on-permanen... |
| Title | Inter-faith Spiritual Ceremony - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Film |
| Description | To make their project work available to communities who could not visit their museums, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums created a YouTube film about their Inter-faith Spiritual Ceremony. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | 81 people had watched this film on YouTube as of 23/02/2024. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtF0BLPTTOk |
| 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 | Meree Yaatra, Hamaaree Yaatra - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Film |
| Description | To make their project work available to communities who could not visit their museums, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums created a YouTube film about their project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 196 people viewed this video on YouTube as of 23/02/2024. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKp6MdDv5uo |
| 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 | SSGB - Handling replica of turban shell featuring Omar Pasha |
| Description | A local specialist engraver was commissioned to create the replica shell which was inscribed with details of Omar Pasha's voyage. The shell was used at SSGB project events for handling. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Engaged visitors to SSGB and their events with the history of the ship, generating new public understandings of the ship and its history. |
| 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. |
| Title | We Are Here Touring Exhibition Angelou Centre - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
| Description | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums toured their exhibition 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women' to five venues including the Angelou Centre. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Visitor numbers for this venue are not available. |
| Title | We Are Here Touring Exhibition Gateshead Library - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
| Description | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums oured their exhibition 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women' to five venues including Gateshead Library. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 5100 visitors visited the exhibition at Gateshead Library. |
| URL | https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/exhibition-celebrating-16-exceptional-north-2... |
| Title | We Are Here Touring Exhibition Gateway Studios - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
| Description | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums toured their exhibition 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women' to five venues including Gateway Studios. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 118 visitors visited the exhibition at Gateway Studios. |
| Title | We Are Here Touring Exhibition Newcastle Hospitals - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
| Description | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums toured their exhibition 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women' to five venues including Newcastle Hospitals. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Visitor numbers are not available for this venue. |
| Title | We Are Here Touring Exhibition Newcastle Library - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
| Description | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums toured their exhibition 'We Are Here: Inspirational Women' to five venues including Newcastle Library. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 27,197 visitors visited the exhibition at Newcastle Library. |
| Title | We Are Here: Inspirational Women - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Film |
| Description | To make their project work available to communities who could not visit their museums, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums created a YouTube film about their exhibition We Are Here: Inspirational Women. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | There have been 386 views of this film as of 23/02/2024. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtaVbDjP0zM |
| 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 6. DLBM - Touchscreen Exhibit 7. DLBM - Exhibit of Josie KO Painting 8. DLBM - Clementine Ewokolo Burnley printed publication 9. DLBM - The lion, the Scots and Mebalwe 10. DLBM - Final Event |
| 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 10. Glasgow Life - Pop Up Display at International Language Festival, Kelvingrove 11. Glasgow Life - Lascar Sailor Podcast 12. Glasgow Life - Publication - Scotland's Lascar Heritage 13. Glasgow Life - Lascars and Us Film |
| 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 6. We Are Here Touring Exhibition Gateshead Library - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 7. We Are Here Touring Exhibition Newcastle Library - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 8. We Are Here Touring Exhibition Newcastle Hospitals - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 9. We Are Here Touring Exhibition Angelou Centre - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 10. We Are Here Touring Exhibition Gateway Studios - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 11. We Are Here: Inspirational Women - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Film 12. Inter-faith Spiritual Ceremony - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Film 13. Meree Yaatra, Hamaaree Yaatra - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Film 14. Indian Indentureship and the Links to the North East and Shipbuilding Permanent Exhibition - Discovery Museum - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums 15. TWAM - Film Celebration Event 16. TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - International Women's Day Event at Newcastle Cathedral 17. TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - Anti-Racism Event at Newcastle University 18. TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - North of England Refugee Service 19. TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - Arthur Wharton Centre for Windrush 75 Celebrations |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DLBM - Final Event |
| 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 | A successful final event where 300 total public and community partners attended. The event launched the temporary exhibition, publications and permanent installations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | DLBM - The lion, the Scots and Mebalwe |
| 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 | Targeted community engagement workshops The lion, the Scots and Mebalwe. In this workshop, participants examined extracts of unpublished material from Dr David Livingstone's best-selling book 'Missionary Travels' and questioned bias in historic sources. The group used the story of 'Livingstone and the Lion' and the Ray Harryhausen statue at DLBM as inspiration to create a new sculptural artwork, facilitated by multi-disciplinary artist Josie KO. Mebalwe was David Livingstone's African teacher who saved him from the Lion attack depicted in the statue. The group learned about the story and then work together to make a papermache lion sculpture with Josie, that reinterpreted the story. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 2.0 Knowledge Sharing Webinar, Community-led Collections Research Case Studies |
| 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 | To support sector training and development based on the evaluation findings of Exchange 1.0 published in the Sector Facing Report, the Hub hosted four sector wide Knowledge Sharing Seminars (March 2023) around the themes of Ensuring Safe Spaces, Research Guides and Ethics, Mitigating Barriers to Community-led Collections Research and Community-led Collections Research Case Studies. Developing best practice in the museum sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exchange 2.0 Knowledge Sharing Webinar, Ensuring Safe Spaces |
| 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 | To support sector training and development based on the evaluation findings of Exchange 1.0 published in the Sector Facing Report, the Hub hosted four sector wide Knowledge Sharing Seminars (March 2023) around the themes of Ensuring Safe Spaces, Research Guides and Ethics, Mitigating Barriers to Community-led Collections Research and Community-led Collections Research Case Studies. Developing best practice in the museum sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exchange 2.0 Knowledge Sharing Webinar, Mitigating Barriers to Community-led Collections Research |
| 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 | To support sector training and development based on the evaluation findings of Exchange 1.0 published in the Sector Facing Report, the Hub hosted four sector wide Knowledge Sharing Seminars (March 2023) around the themes of Ensuring Safe Spaces, Research Guides and Ethics, Mitigating Barriers to Community-led Collections Research and Community-led Collections Research Case Studies. Developing best practice in the museum sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exchange 2.0 Knowledge Sharing Webinar, Research Guides and Ethics |
| 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 | To support sector training and development based on the evaluation findings of Exchange 1.0 published in the Sector Facing Report, the Hub hosted four sector wide Knowledge Sharing Seminars (March 2023) around the themes of Ensuring Safe Spaces, Research Guides and Ethics, Mitigating Barriers to Community-led Collections Research and Community-led Collections Research Case Studies. Developing best practice in the museum sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exchange 2.0: 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 | In the later phase of the second Project Partner funded period Exchange 2.0 (June and July 2023), the Hub held two online Focus Groups to support project evaluation and addressing the research aims to develop more equitable participatory practice in the museum sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Glasgow Life - Pop Up Display at International Language Festival, Kelvingrove |
| 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 | Pop Up Display at International Language Festival, Kelvingrove, displaying the Lascar Plaque and information boards about the project. Reached 150 visitors. (February 2023) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Museums Journal 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Shared Exchange 2.0 work with UK museum sector through the Museums Association montly print and online professional journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2023/06/we-need-to-encourage-a-plurality-... |
| 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 | SSGB - A Night Under the Stars Poetry Evening |
| 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 | A Night Under the Stars. An evening event on board the SS Great Britain for invited guests to explore the ship; share food; find out more about Shani's research and book; hear about her experiences; and listen to her poetry and that of other poets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SSGB - Activity stall at a local Windrush 75 celebration event |
| 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 | Activity stall at a local Windrush 75 celebration event run by community researcher: displaying the replica shell with the shell design activity, using one of the 'life on board box activities, displaying the 'Tying the Tides' book, distributing 'So you think you know' booklets. Reached 80 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SSGB - Family 'Journeys' day at SS Great Britain |
| 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 | Family visit to SS Great Britain: invited families take part in activities exploring the theme of journeys, including Huimyeong reading her voyage pop-up based on stories from the collection, and children sharing their experiences of different journeys. Engaged with 36 visitors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SSGB - Family activities at the Hannah More Summer Fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Hannah More Summer Fair: combing elements from all Exchange 1 outputs, the community researchers ran an activity stand displaying the replica shell with the shell design activity, using the steerage rations box and activities, and sharing the 'Tying the Tides' book. The event reached 80 students and parents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SSGB - On site family workshop exploring shell and story of Omar Pasha |
| 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 | Omar Pasha shell and family workshop: Recreating a handling duplicate of the shell Soumia worked with in Exchange 1 that depicts the Muslim general Omar Pasha. Family workshop led by Soumia, exploring the story of Omar Pasha, handling the shell, and encouraging young people to create their own shell design of someone they admire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SSGB - School Poetry Day on SS Great Britain |
| 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 | School Poetry Day on SS Great Britain. With poet Saili Katebe, Shani delivered a poetry day for a small group of Year 9 students, sharing her experience of using the SS Great Britain collection as inspiration for her poetry and supporting them to express themselves through spoken word, and creating their own poems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SSGB - Two Life on Board Workshops in Schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School-based Life on Board Workshops: workshops lead by Iwona in costume as a steerage passenger. Children explore the weekly rations box created in Exchange 1 and take part in the associated activities to explore life on board. Reached 60 children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | TWAM - Film Celebration Event |
| 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 | TWAM held a celebration event at Live Theatre, Newcastle, so screen the three project youTube films (included elsewhere). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - Anti-Racism Event at Newcastle University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To reach a more diverse audience, TWAM undertook events to share their exhibition, We Are Here, including an Anti-Racism Event at Newcastle University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - Arthur Wharton Centre for Windrush 75 Celebrations |
| 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 | To reach more diverse audiences with their exhibition, We Are Here, TWAM undertook outreach events including at the Arthur Wharton Centre for Windrush 75 Celebrations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - International Women's Day Event at Newcastle Cathedral |
| 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 | To share their touring exhibition, We Are Here, TWAM held an International Women's Day event at Newcastle Cathedral in participation with Northumbria University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://internationalnewcastle.org.uk/iwd-2023-2 |
| Description | TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - North East of England African Community Association AGM |
| 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 | To reach more diverse audiences with their exhibition, We Are Here, TWAM undertook outreach events including at the North East of England African Community Association AGM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | TWAM Touring Exhibition Event - North of England Refugee Service |
| 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 | To reach more diverse audiences with their exhibition, We Are Here, TWAM undertook outreach events including at the North of England Refugee Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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... |