museum updates
Director’s Message 2020 got off to a great start with the New Year’s Day Classic
Gathering. I was working up on the Campbell Gate helping to get everyone on site as quickly as we could. It was great fun welcoming Members and other visitors in their wonderful cars, motorcycles and other vehicles.
The beginning of the year has been busy with preparations.
We are working on some new signage and wayfinding which will be installed for the summer and we are planning a bigger, better version of the Brooklands fete for the summer, this year with a VE Day Second World War theme. We are also starting to make plans for the Museum’s long-term future. This was the focus of the Trustees’ away day in January and, following on from their discussions, we are appointing architects to create a masterplan for the site and help us identify the next major area of the Museum to develop. Once the architect is selected, we will be asking Members, visitors and volunteers to share their thoughts about the Museum’s future.
In February HRH Prince Michael of Kent visited the Museum to unveil a statue of Alcock and Brown, the first people to cross the Atlantic non-stop, which they did in a Brooklands-built Vimy. This is the subject of the First to the Fastest exhibition which the Members funded last year. The statue is on loan from Heathrow and we were delighted to be joined by Chris Garton, the Chief Operating Officer and by Tony and Anne Alcock, niece and nephew of John Alcock. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum soon. Tamalie Newbery
Learning and Participation As we move through the Spring term of the 2020 school year
it is an opportune time to reflect on what we have achieved. In 2019 we welcomed more than 13,000 children to take part in organised school visits. Primary school children took part in Guided Tours of Aviation and Motoring, scientific workshops, self-guided trails and activities centred around Brooklands’ history such as the Meet an Aviation Hero workshop. Secondary school students participated in Engineering Taster Days, Snapshots of History, It’s an Ingenious World guided tours and Inside Track, our STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) focused careers day for young girls. The next is a conference-style day when students and their families can learn more about different careers in STEM on 28 May. Schools were able to explore the Aircraft Factory, Motoring
Village and Stratosphere Chamber, among other exhibitions. We have also developed and delivered a sensorial story telling workshop specially designed for Special Educational Needs and Disability schools. We visited Teen Tech in November to promote the Museum’s
learning events and ran an activity where students made a stop- motion film featuring Brooklands’ famous aircraft, building on the popularity and significance of the First to Fastest exhibition. Teen engagement has also been targeted through the relaunch of the Brooklands Museum Youth Panel, a program where teenagers gather to work towards making new friends, gaining new skills and making the Museum more relevant to their peers.
Holiday learning activities soared in 2019. The August Summer Fete saw families write and create their own impromptu puppet show, make your own puppet craft activity, and a successful series of interactive storytelling sessions held on a double-decker bus from the London Bus Museum. Our monthly Mini Aces Club continued to positively impact children aged 0-5, one highlight being where the Mini Aces, after constructing cardboard wings to become a fleet of aeroplanes for the morning, made a trip to the Factory to make a metal plane. It was a truly wonderous and charming experience for all children and parents. For 2020, we are launching our newly developed foundation- stage workshops to nursery schools, beginning with the Wheels on the Bus in February. This is an engaging and exciting workshop where children learn about shape, colour and materials through tactile exploration, puzzles and singing together. We will also be running another Twilight Opening on the 28 February with new activities developed by the Learning team. We have more than 150 Cubs and Scouts from the local areas currently booked to attend and are looking forward to another fun event. There’s another of these events on 24 April. Currently, we are looking to recruit more volunteers to assist in delivering the many activities mentioned above. Full training is provided and if you are interested in volunteering please contact our Learning Officer Laura Barclay on: lbarclay@
brooklandsmuseum.com
Laura Barclay MARCH - APRIL 2020 | BROOKLANDS BULLETIN 11
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