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Highlights

Here we share some of our work highlights through case studies. These stories showcase the wonderful work that has been going on across our partner museums. We hope they will inform and inspire you!

Each story provides contact details so you can speak to the relevant museum or person for further information.

A group of young children and parents at a junk modelling workshop.

Micro-volunteering

A WW1 project that engaged an army of new volunteers.
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Micro-volunteering -
Wiltshire Museum

The Meaning of Things

Using objects to reach out to people who don't usually visit our museums.
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Community engagement -
Wiltshire and Salisbury Museums

Student volunteering

A major increase in student volunteers thanks to Duke of Edinburgh projects.
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Student volunteering -
Wiltshire Museum

Trustee recruitment

How Wessex Museums changed its approach to trustee recruitment - with great success.
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Trustee recruitment -
Wessex Museums

Crowdfunding

How Wiltshire Museum ran its first Crowdfunder campaign - and hit its target amidst the pandemic!
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Crowdfunding-
Wiltshire Museum

Community art

Wiltshire Museum and Arts Together used Hardy's 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles’ to inspire creativity in isolated and vulnerable older people.
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Engaging older people -
Wiltshire Museum

Podcasting

Youth panel creates Wiltshire Museum's first podcast series.
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Podcasting -
Wiltshire Museum

Crowdfunding

Wessex Museums’ Crowdfunder for the Thomas Hardy exhibition was a huge success but also a learning curve for all involved.
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Hardy Crowdfunder -
Wessex Museums

Mental health

Salisbury Museum is working with three organisations in the city to support people in the community with mental health needs.
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Museums and mental health -
Salisbury Museum

Sensing the past

A co-creation project led by – and for - blind and visually impaired people.
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Visually impaired people -
Dorset Museum

Work Placements

A collaboration between disabled young people and museums to create meaningful work experience opportunities.
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Disabled young people -
Wessex Museums

Work Placements

How we created the Hardy podcasts, starting with zero experience!
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Hardy podcasts -
Wessex Museums

University placements

How to build meaningful placements that benefit the museum and the student.
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University placements -
Wessex Museums

University placements

A series of art workshops with the Dorset Deaf Activities Group inspired by Frink.
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Awakened by Frink -
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery

University placements

A collaborative project with Girlguiding South West England, Polydron, and STEAM to inspired girls and young women in the local area.
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Exploring engineering at STEAM -
STEAM

Focus on sustainable fashion

How to address sustainable fashion conversation with young people by using museum collections.
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Empowering young people through fashion

Back to Our Work

Sawfish are also called carpenter sharks...but they are rays, not sharks!

There’s also a species called a sawshark, but that’s, well, a shark!

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What the heck is a lek?

Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.

Road Runner!

The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.

Belly Buster!

The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!

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