UL Beyond the Campus Maria Cagney The Hunt

‘ UL: Beyond the Campus’ Maria Cagney, The Hunt Museum

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How Do We Engage THE HUNT MUSEUM DEVELOPS AND PROVIDES MANY LIFE LONG LEARNING ACTIVITIES: • Docent led Permanent Collection and Temporary exhibition tours • Lectures on the Collection and other subjects. • Creative arts classes for adults • Creative activities and camps for children • Docent led schools curriculum linked programmes • Community outreach programmes and projects • Hosting Community festivals • Development and delivery of learning resources to support engagement with the past • Special events - Culture Night, Heritage Week etc. • Dynamic internship programmes for post graduates

Education Priorities and Planning Priorities identified: 1. Absence of digital learning opportunities 2. Insufficient programming for - young families - young people 3. Need to upgrade existing learning resources esp. loan boxes 4. Need to highlight the Hunt legacy in relation to relevant historical sites and to connect with these to create new learning opportunities

Progressing Priority Areas Projects: Current & Forthcoming Early Childhood ‘Play for Toddlers’ (with Parent/Carer) ICTeens Intergenerational project

‘UL: Beyond the Campus’ How can we work together in a mutually beneficial way to connect with the City and its Citizens?

Social Media ICTeens (Intergeneration) project Relevant Historic Sites

ICTeens (Intergeneration) project Phase I: Supported by The Ireland Funds • Young people will share their social media skills with our Docents and in exchange they will offer their knowledge of our prehistoric collections. • Using social media, they will then collaborate to produce digital stories revealing life in ancient Ireland connect our collection to relevant historic sites. Phase II: funding to be secured • Requires us to draw on Phase I digital content to produce open access learning resources to support classroom based learning in relation to the above. A key objective is to highlight the role played by the discipline of archaeology when interpreting life in the past. Could post graduate students of Local History and Technical Communication and Instructional Design contribute to this process with the Education Technologies Centre?

Storyteller’s Chair Opportunities for students completing the MA in Creative Writing or BA Performing Arts to assist with the programming of this space. For example: 1. To co-ordinate and deliver a programme of lunch time sessions enabling students to engage the public in their practice. 2. Creative writing mentoring programme for young people which will enable them to share their practice with the public.

Working Together Become a Museum Docent and… UL PRACTICUM PROGRAMME The Hunt Museum is a GAISCE Challenge Partner. Students aged 25 or less can take assist us in our mission ‘to inspire [in our on our Research & Interpretative Tour visitors] a natural curiosity and creativity, and Guiding challenge. a desire to know more’.

Thank you for your attention. Your questions, comments and ideas please! Email: maria@huntmuseum. com Telephone: 061 312833