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Digital learning to schools & homes
All learning programmes in museums faced a challenge during lockdown as face-to-face formal and informal learning was locked down and a rapid move to digital needed to be made. This month’s IATM webinar looks at inspiring examples of the move to digital learning from the Berlin Technical Museum and from the UK’s Kids in Museums. Following an introduction to Berlin Technical Museum, from its new Director, Joachim Breuninger, we look at two digital learning initiatives, the the kids.digilab.berlin and the Junior Campus presented by Bettina Gries and Marcel Jahre. Kids in Museums promotes family friendly approaches in UK museums; CEO Alison Bowyer presents lessons in digital engagement for families from the Family Friendly Museum…
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How are our visitors and working practices changing post-Covid?
For our fourth IATM webinar, we turn our thoughts to reopening museums; how do our potential visitors feel about that return, how will city centres have changed and how will the way we work be changed in the future? Steve Mills of Decision House will present his UK research on current trends in customer sentiment while Claire Cheriyan from TfL City Planning and an expert on the workplace will join Sam Mullins, IATM President and Laura Wright, Director of the Postal Museum, to discuss the context in which we will be relaunching museum visiting. There will be short presentations, discussion and questions. You are encouraged to share the link and…
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Museums Go Digital with Hidden London and the Tank Museum
In our March webinar, we share two case studies of museums moving to digital delivery; London Transport Museum turned its successful Hidden London tours of disused stations into online virtual tours to keep the programme and income alive during lockdown, while the Tank Museum, with one of the busiest museum YouTube channels, shares its approach to video production. In this webinar you will be taken on a virtual tour of Brompton Road, a disused Underground station and WW2 bunker, on the Piccadilly line, be introduced to the business model for paid-for virtual tours and see how online platforms such as Zoom and YouTube can be used to deliver engaging museum…
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2nd Webinar: Curating under Quarantine
Curators Rebecca Dolgoy, Emily Gann, and Erin Gregory, will present Ingenium’s Curating under Quarantine initiative, a project which focuses on documenting the current COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on science, technology, and society. The presentation will begin with an overview of the project and its conceptualization, followed by a discussion of specific activities within the project, such as documentation, partnerships, acquisition strategy, and sharing outputs. This will be followed by a Question and Answer period. 25th February 2021, 15:00 CET
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28 January, 15 CET: 1st webinar on steamship restoration
IATM – Start of a series exciting worldwide webinars The IATM Board has decided to organize 2021 every month a Webinar to maintain to contact with our members and to enlarge the range of participants, not only the Directors but also the other staff members. The start will be made by the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne on Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 14:00 (GMT) / 15:00 European continent. Duration: 1 hour (including live Q & A) Topic of the webinar: Restoration of the steamship DS Rigi, Lake Lucerne 1848-1952 (in the museum since 1959). The steamship Rigi is as old as modern Switzerland and thus our oldest preserved…
