Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums
Oxford University
13 episodes
2 months ago
Scott Billings, Digital Engagement Officer, Museum of Natural History gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference. The Dodo Roadshow was a crazy tip-to-tip trip across Britain with one of natural history’s most iconic specimens. Scott talks about how the idea was developed from an initial suggestion around the director’s table to their arrival in John O’Groats barely one month later, having visited collections in 22 museums and galleries along the way.
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Scott Billings, Digital Engagement Officer, Museum of Natural History gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference. The Dodo Roadshow was a crazy tip-to-tip trip across Britain with one of natural history’s most iconic specimens. Scott talks about how the idea was developed from an initial suggestion around the director’s table to their arrival in John O’Groats barely one month later, having visited collections in 22 museums and galleries along the way.
Memories under the microscope: collaborations between Oxford University Partnership Museums and University of Oxford research departments
Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums
9 minutes
9 years ago
Memories under the microscope: collaborations between Oxford University Partnership Museums and University of Oxford research departments
Helen Fountain, Reminiscence Officer, Oxford University Museums and Kate Hamblin, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Institute for Population Ageing give a short talk for the Oxford University Museums Staff Conference. In 2015 the University of Oxford Institute for Population Ageing made a successful application to the Fell Fund to explore the impact of the Museum of Oxford’s Memory Lane on site reminiscence group on its participants’ wellbeing. This short talk covers the collaborative process from early discussions, developing a seminar series, the research process and the final research findings which have been published in a report.
Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums
Scott Billings, Digital Engagement Officer, Museum of Natural History gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference. The Dodo Roadshow was a crazy tip-to-tip trip across Britain with one of natural history’s most iconic specimens. Scott talks about how the idea was developed from an initial suggestion around the director’s table to their arrival in John O’Groats barely one month later, having visited collections in 22 museums and galleries along the way.
