Impact Objectives:
The Mobile Museum project was designed to have a significant impact beyond the research. Overall its objectives are to:
- Enrich understanding of biocultural collections amongst a wide range of actual and potential users
- Enable heritage professionals, collection managers and museum curators to develop new ways of engaging with their collections
- Promote new approaches to the educational uses of collections through pilot museum projects in schools and the provision of learning resources
Beneficiaries:
- Collection managers and heritage professionals
- Museum curators and exhibitions staff
- Representatives of source communities
- Enthusiast historians and botanists
- Educators in schools and museums
- Pupils and students
Events:
- Seminar series Collections in Circulation (Jan-May 2018)
- Workshop – UK museum curators and managers (11 May 2018)
- Workshop – primary school teachers (25 Feb 2019)
- Conference – international researchers (9-10 May 2019)
- Open House weekend at Kew (21-22 Sept 2019)
