Since November 2009 we have been working with an amazing group of young people, known to the Museum as the Young Consultants. Kway Elvis Adelah Godwin Will Over the last 18 months these five young people have helped to shape our policies and ways of working with young people across the Museum. They have [...]
Saturday 23rd July was the first official planning session for the young volunteers. The aim over the next 5 weekends is for the young people to plan a series of family activities for visitors, which will be delivered during the final week of the summer holidays (29th August-2nd September). The theme for the activities, as [...]
Following on from my ‘On Broadway’ post, I looked at a station that’s trying to stop their customers from merely passing through without noticing what’s going on around them. Oval Station, like a few others on the Underground network, have a ‘Thought Of The Day’ board, where staff write philosophical and interesting quotes for their customers to [...]
Every day, millions of us enter our local station, scan our Oyster card, head down the escalator and jump on a train to work. Other than perhaps stopping to pick up a free paper, top up our credit, or check for service updates, most of us will whiz through our stations week after week [...]
I arrived at the Museum bright and early this morning to join the wonderful Vicky from Design and Kath from Displayways for the installation of new text panels and graphics in our World city walk gallery. It’s always exciting to see the outcomes of projects we’ve been working on go into the main galleries. I [...]
