OBJECTS IN FOCUS: TEACHERS’ RESOURCES
REACHING BEYOND THE MUSEUM WALLS
Introduction to Jewish Museum London
1932
Woburn House
1983-1995
London Museum of Jewish Life
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
1995-2007
Albert Street
2010 Museums merge, reopen in Camden
Judaism: A Living Faith
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
History: A British Story
Arts Council England. Museums and
Schools Partnership Programme
o National project across 10 regions.
o Responding to Henley Review.
o Aim for the visits is to spark young people's curiosity and encourage a lifelong
passion for culture and learning.
o Jewish Museum brief was to welcome 5000 students on 3 visits to the
museum. 15,000 visits in total.
o Develop ‘downloadable resources from the website and offer the opportunity
for hundreds of schools to engage with the programme’.
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
Brief for Objects in Focus
o Further study options to support existing
workshops.
o Downloadable resources to support First World
War workshop.
o Enable the Museum to extend engagement with
wider audiences.
o Develop ideas that prepare, embed and extend
the museum visit in a concrete and meaningful
way either pre or post visit.
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
The Aims of Objects in Focus
 To create a online platform that enables teachers and students to interact
with beautiful and unique items from the museum’s collections.
 To create a valuable pre and post visit extension resource for teachers.
 To support teachers in teaching religious studies, East End history and
Holocaust studies and to create cross-curricular links to enable multiple
department collaboration.
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Design Concept
Design used the ACE Quality Principles as a framework
o Designed to be used primarily in the classroom
o Visually engaging and easy to navigate
o Ease of Maintenance
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Timeline and Budget
Budget of £5000, excluding staff time
ACE project
begins
Fran
recruited
Objects in
Focus begins
Budget
signed off
November
2012
January
2013
February
2013
March 31st
2013
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Objects in
Focus goes live
October
2013
Shortlisted for
M&H award
March
2014
Starting a Hierarchy of Information
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Building a Template
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Choosing the Objects
Many of these were
not used.
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Object Information
Next stages
o Review the objects displayed and respond to student/teacher evaluation and
curriculum changes
o Increase the number of Digital Takeaways
o To test feasibility of adding audio layer
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Evaluation
o Google Analytics
o First 3 months 3833 page views
o Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll
o Student Response – what we discovered
o Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll
o We were intrigued that students wanted to see video interpretation exploring how
objects were made or used
o Students enjoyed the objects that showed more than one image of the object
o The majority of the students wished to have interpretation of the objects by museum
staff.
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/objects-in-focus
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Questions
Tali Krikler
Frances Jeens
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources