Museum on the Move

 

'Museum on the Move' is an interactive, multi sensory museum exhibition, which is part of a collaborative project across the Black Country Museums and Staffordshire funded by Renaissance West Midlands

 

The exhibition itself, Beneath our Feet, uses artefacts, text and interactive activities to profile the Black Country history beneath us from a social, industrial and geological perspective. The 'Beneath Our Feet' exhibition explores how human exploitation of natural resources has made the Staffordshire and Black Country landscape look the way it is today.  A variety of resources, interactive activities and over 60 artefacts explore subjects such as mining, canals, and farming.

 

Children can engage in cross curricular activities, using a range of learning styles and developing practical and independent thinking skills. Dudley is keen to see the museum reaching as many people as possible, in particular excluded communities - and therefore we are wanting to concentrate on harnessing interest at public events such as events/festivals, town centres, attractions etc.

 

Museum on the Move, as the name suggests, is a touring exhibition sited on a single decker bus, approximately the same size as a mobile library van. It has wheelchair access and can hold a maximum of ten people. The bus has a driver and is staffed by two museum staff at all times, with the aim of getting the bus out in the borough for residents to come on board, learn and maybe even have some fun. The bus holds a max of ten people at any one time.

 

Dudley has the bus for the following dates:

16 - 29 June

18 - 24 August (to include Glass festival (22-24)

15 - 21 September (to include Stourbridge town centre Harvest Festival 20 Sept)

17 - 30 November (to include Stourbridge Christmas lights switch on 30 Nov)