Case Studies
Case study: Pallant House Gallery’s dance collaboration
Our latest event case study comes from Sandra Peaty, Head of Learning and Community at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, who explains how her team collaborated with a dance company to develop a uniquely creative Museums at Night event idea. Our event For...
Case study: Developing sleepovers at the Novium Museum
Our latest guest post comes from Catherine Coleman, Learning and Participation Officer at the Novium in Chichester, who explains how her team has developed their museum sleepover offer. Why did we try sleepovers? Since first hearing about sleepovers in the Natural...
Guest post: Autumn Neagle describes a glimmering light installation at Cogges Manor Farm
Our latest guest post comes from Autumn Neagle, Marketing and Events Manager at Cogges Manor Farm, who helped attract visitors with a Museums at Night evening of music and an outdoor glowing light installation. The history of our venue Cogges Manor Farm is a historic...
A Curious Night at the Booth Museum
This is a terrific review of a well-thought-out after-hours event held recently at the Booth Museum in Brighton, written by Brighton Museums' latest blogger-in-residence. The event title is immediately intriguing - A Curious Night of the Slightly Strange - and in fact...
Guest Post: Museum Alive brings mannequin drama to Chippenham Museum!
Our latest guest post comes from Melissa Barnett of Chippenham Museum, who explains how she involved a drama group in bringing the museum's mannequins to life for Museums at Night....
Guest Post: Pat Brandwood explains how the Robert Owen Museum reopened during Museums at Night
Our latest guest post comes from Pat Brandwood, Curator of the recently reopened Robert Owen Museum in Newtown. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Owen was a social visionary and founder of the...
A group poem from author Guy Bass’s event at Trencherfield Mill
Trencherfield Mill in Wigan took advantage of Museums at Night's partnership with the Reading Agency, and welcomed children's author Guy Bass to lead a creative writing workshop about monsters for their family audience. Carole Ogden from Wigan Leisure and Culture...
Guest Post: Laura Crossley reviews Jessica Voorsanger at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe
Our latest event review guest post comes from Laura Crossley, a Heritage and Audience Development Consultant and friend of Museums at Night who discovered other worlds at 20-21 Visual Arts in Scunthorpe! ————————————————————————————————— Saturday night TV is rubbish....
Case study: How Wardown Park Museum attracted over 1000% more visitors than usual
Our latest case study guest post comes from Ellen Waghorn, Event Programmer at Wardown Park Museum in Luton. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wardown Park Museum took part in Museums at Night 2014...
Culture Collaboration, Culture Rescue
An interesting account explaining how Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collaborated with AndesCrafts to bring Chilean craft and culture into their successful Museums at Night event!
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