With colleagues, peers, museum visitors, someone local you know, or a local community group you know, create a list, diagram or drawing of museum assets that might enhance the work of local community groups, charities and social enterprises. For example:
- Indoor and outdoor spaces
- Languages spoken locally
- Insights into the culture and history of local communities
- Vehicles
- Craft, Science, Art, Carpentry, or Design skills
- Sign-making
- Map-making
- Images of the collection that can link to local activity
- Workshop-leading and training skills
- Specialist knowledge about people’s experience of being disabled
- Trustee skills, business planning knowledge, financial skills such as cash-flow monitoring
- Purchasing ability for local goods and services
This exercise should take you 60 minutes.
Please record your learning in your reflection notes.