The Interactive Museum – Projects and Trends

European Museum Learning Conference

Conference presentations

The speakers’ presentations can be downloaded from this page. If you prefer to receive them on CD, contact Robin Clutterbuck on robin@whiterook.co.uk. A small charge will be needed to cover copying, postage and packing.

Martin Bazley (U.K.)

Martin Bazley is Director of ICT4Learning.com. He also works 2 days a week as eLearning Officer for the South East Museums Libraries and Archive Council and chairs the eLearning Group for Museums, Libraries and Archives.
Following 8 years’ teaching experience, Martin worked for 7 years as Internet Projects Manager in the Learning Unit at the Science Museum, London. His specialisms include design, development and evaluation of online learning resources and offline learning opportunities based on digital technology, as well as staff training and consultancy.
More details can be found at www.ICT4Learning.com

Viv Golding (U.K.)

Dr. Viv Golding is lecturer in Museum Studies and Education at Leicester University. Her qualifications include: BA hons (Art and Design); ATC (Art Teachers Certificate with Art Therapy); MA (Modern Philosophy), MA (Women’s Studies), PhD (Museum Studies). She also has 10 years experience developing educational opportunities at the Horniman Museum in London and a further 12 years developing Arts Education Programmes in London.

Karen Gron (Denmark)

Karen Gron is curator of education at Trapholt museum of modern art, applied art, design and furniture design. The main focus in her work is how to create great museum experiences for the museum visitors in general. The key issue is how to combine the visitors’ needs and requests with the museum’s mission which is to give the public aesthetic experiences related to art and design.

Rosa Gunnarsdottir (Iceland)

Dr Rosa Gunnarsdottir started out as a science teacher in Iceland, but soon discovered that there was something lacking in the way that science was taught as it did not mean as much to the student as it could. Linking scientific discovery with design and crafts lead to the development of a curriculum subject named Innovation Education, where students work on their own inventions and ideas, and in that way make sense of their knowledge and skills.

PaedDr. Marie Hrachovcová (Czech Republic)

Dr. Hrachovcová was born in Olomouc in 1943. In 1960-1964 she studied Czech-History at the Teachers’ Training Institute in Olomouc, finishing with a state examination. During the teaching practice she completed the postgraduate course at the Faculty of Philosophy at Palacký University Olomouc (1971-1973) and external complementary studies at Faculty of Philosophy, Palacký University, subjects Czech-History (1982-1986). She completed the state rigorous examination in the theory of teaching History, general pedagogy and pedagogical psychology (1987). Since 1995 she has been working as a lecturer at department of Civics, Faculty of Pedagogy, Palacký University. In 1995-1996 she took part in PHARE Project in cooperation with Kompaktgroep and Ústav pro rozvoj školství (Institute for School Development) attached to PdF UK Prague for rejuvenation in the Czech Republic, the result of it is the series of the textbooks for Civics teachers through the seminars and summer schools. Her published works are focused on regional and cultural history and the didactics of Civics.
Download presentation in English: ‘Hrachovcova.doc’ (69 kb)
Download presentation in Czech ‘Hrachovcova MuzeopedagogikaI.ppt’ (82 kb)

David Hrbek

David Hrbek (b. 1968) studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc (graduated in 1991) and worked as an editor of a publishing house in Olomouc, before becoming a teacher of Czech, English and American literature at a grammar school. Since September 2000 he has worked as a teacher of animation in Olomouc Museum of Arts.

Manuela Lübben-Konstantinoff

Manuela Lübben-Konstantinoff was born in 1954 in Freiburg/Breisgau, and worked first as a kinder¬garten-teacher in a Swiss private school before stopping to bring up her family of four children. Later she trained as communi¬cation-assistant at Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, working for several years as technical editor and since 1989 as a freelancing computer and e-learning-trainer. She is now museum Education Officer at the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen in the Black Forest.

Birgitta Olsson

I am a media educator and film consultant responsible for Film in Halland, a regional resource centre for film and video. In all Swedish regions, the county councils have set up regional resource centres for film and video. Connected to these are regional film and cinema consultants responsible for supporting work with film in education. These consultants procure contacts among schools, municipal authorities and cinema managers. They arrange preview screenings of current films appropriate for the school-cinema programme and help to organise certain training in cinema and media studies for teachers. Many regional resource centres also run major programmes designed to support the filmmaking efforts of children and young people in school and in their spare time. I have been working for many years in animation workshops with young people and educators.

Stephen Pizzey (U.K.)

Stephen Pizzey is the founder and director of Science Projects, an educational charity which operates The Observatory Science Centre. The centre is located in the south east of England at the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory which moved its telescopes there in the 1950’s. Science Projects also operates travelling exhibitions from its design and production workshop in London which specialises in the development of hands-on exhibits. Stephen was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to research his topic of science in the landscape - looking at the science in our natural surroundings and exploring exhibit ideas which bring attention and understanding to these phenomena.

PaedDr. Zdena Poláková

PaedDr. Poláková is in charge of Education at the Children's Museum in Brno, Czech Republic and delivered a Power-Point presentation on the activities at the museum, where a rolling programme of themed interactive sessions are laid on. For further information contact her at detskemuzeum@mzm.cz

Michael Truckenbrodt

Michael Truckenbrodt is an historian. He was responsible for educational work at the historical site of the Reichsparteitagsgelände (Nazi party rally area) in Nuremberg and was head of educational services in the Jewish Museum of Franconia in Fürth. He has also been involved in numerous media projects. Since 2000, he has worked as an author and producer of museum media at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. His main projects there are: the Virtual Library of the Middle Ages; the multimedia project “Jewish Life in Germany” in co-operation with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education); and the content-management system for the multimedia of the German Historical Museum’s permanent exhibition. He was responsible for content editing, technical design and project management. He has also taken part in the production of six documentary films for German television.

Alena Vavrdova

Dr. Alena Vavrdova was a primary teacher from 1980 to 1993, a lecturer from 1993 to 2002, and senior lecturer since 2002 in the Department of Primary Education in Palacký University, Olomouc, gaining her Ph.D. in 2002, specialising in history and geography methodology. She is a teacher trainer for in-service primary school teachers’ seminars in cooperation with local educational centres for further teacher training. She is also coordinator of the Socrates-Erasmus programme at the Department of Primary Education, which has led to study stays in Sweden and teaching in Finland.

Thomas Wahlström

Born 1964, Thomas Wahlström currently lives and works in Bor?s, Sweden as an artist and writer. Wahlström has had around fifty exhibitions in Sweden and in Europe, mostly painting but also graphics, installations and conceptual art. He has also published ten books, mainly poetry. Thomas Wahlström has led writing workshops for children and adults on painting and the art of seeing. In Kungsbacka, Sweden, Wahlström curated a project (Aspect time) that integrated modern art with historical museum objects (clocks), so his contribution in Lorsch will be his second input into the ‘Exposition of Time’ project.

Vicky Woollard (U.K.)

Vicky Woollard gained a B.Ed from the Froebel Institute London and taught for four years in an inner London Primary school. She then entered museum education for 18 years at the Horniman Museum, Museum of London and The Geffrye Museum. She is currently Senior Lecturer of Museum management and education at City University, London, where she leads an MA programme. She has also carried out training programmes for the British Council and academic institutions across the world and is co-author of “Museum and Gallery Education – A manual of good practice”.