MusLi (Museums Literacy) - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

MusLi - No qualifications needed: museums and new audiences
As our partnership develops with organisations and groups like the Adult Education Service, the City
Council’s international new arrivals team and independent groups and organisations we may be able
to track these participants more accurately. As we work more closely with outreach workers (and offer
training) in SureStart centres and elswhere across the city we should be able to target and identify more
of the hard to reach families who would benefit from engaging with cultural venues.
The Manchester Museum case studies
Early Years & Family Learning
Partner organizations:
Renaissance North West
www.mla.gov.uk/what/programmes/renaissance/regions/north_west
Manchester City Council
www.manchester.gov.uk/a_to_z/service/1448/sure_start
Manchester Adult Education Service
www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200004/adult_education/118/manchester_adult_education_service_maes/1
NIACE [National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education]
www.niace.org.uk
Earlyarts
www.earlyarts.co.uk
The main purpose of involving adults:
To help them engage with museums and galleries at their own level of learning and enjoyment with the
aim of becoming confident to use cultural venues to continue their own development and to continue
supporting their children’s development.
To help them support their child’s learning in practical ways – providing opportunities, facilities, resources
and time to become confident to do this.
To develop overall access to all potential audiences for the venue and increase active use and ownership
of the venue.
Early Years and Family Learning activities
Museum-led explorer sessions for the Animals Life galleries (including the vivarium). Explorer sessions
on the Prehistoric Life gallery (Dinosaurs). These sessions are facilitated by a member of the
learning team and are open to groups of children from schools, Children’s Centres, private daycare
settings etc.
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