My consultation services are where all the dots join up! I would love to hear from you if you think your organisation could benefit from a fresh perspective on existing learning or interpretation, or if you’re thinking about developing a new event programme that will diversify and grow your audience. In order to help I offer a variety of services from initial scoping work to developing comprehensive strategies for moving forward with accompanying resources. Where possible I like to work closely with audiences to arrive at recommendations, and am skilled at focus group facilitation and evaluation.
LGBTQ in Schools – a short report
Recent funding streams tied to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality have encouraged many organisations to rethink the ways in which they interpret their collections and the possibilities and challenges involved when collaborating in a meaningful and mutually beneficial way with diverse audiences. Royal Pavilion & Museums are no…
Kingston RPM: Heritage Consultancy
As a freelancer you often have a relatively short time to get your head around new organisations, projects and supporting contexts before work needs to start on the outcome (for example a report, some in-gallery interpretation, a new schools programme) . Therefore it’s always lovely to find an organisation you feel ‘in sync’ with from the…
Westbury Manor Museum
I was brought on board as part of the team responsible for developing the on site schools offer for the recently re-opened Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham. We ended up developing five hands-on backpack resources differentiated for use with both KS1 and 2 – Be an Archaeologist, Be a Detective, Be a Breadwinner, Be an…
Use Review: Film & Media collection at Hove Museum & Art Gallery
As an ex teacher of Media and Film the Film & Media collection housed at Hove Museum & Art Gallery has always interested me, and I was happy to be given an excuse to delve into it in some detail when I was commissioned to write a Use Review for the collection. The impressive collection…
Volk’s Electric Railway
As a long term fan of the Volk’s Electric Railway on Brighton Seafront I was delighted to be appointed alongside my inquisite colleague Su Hepburn to lead on the schools offer as part of HLF supported redevelopment programme. We started from a blank slate and ended up developing a comprehensive offer for mainstream and SEND…
KSY Museum
The Kent & Sharpshooters Museum in the grounds of Hever Castle in Kent had a tricky problem they needed to solve: how to offer engaging on-site activities for schools without any learning staff? In autumn 2016 we worked through this problem and others to develop a comprehensive learning strategy, series on on-site resources and publicity…
Young People, Social Media & the Arts
In February 2015 I was commissioned by Our Future City to do a small piece of scoping research exploring how young people in the city were engaging with social media and the arts. The brief was pretty open so I armed myself with a pack of tropical-coloured Sharpies, a flipchart and some brightly coloured Post-it…
Use Review: Brighton’s Costume Collection
On the back of the First Floor of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery you will find the popular Fashion & Style gallery, housing a small selection of the nationally important dress collection that belongs to the city. My favourite piece is a beautiful Schiaparelli evening dress. I was commissioned to write a formal report…
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
I was hired as a Consultant on the new Schools programme when Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft was being redeveloped in 2014. Working closely with their Learning Manager and local schools I developed six practical sessions exploring the crafts that are so central to the collections – metalwork, weaving and letterpress. It was such…
Ellie Newland 