The Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), which merged with Wandsworth Museum last year, is creating a moving museum as part of efforts to to reach new audiences.
Initially bicycles will be used to transport the museum – comprising historical objects, flat-pack workshop materials and information and items relating to the centre’s projects.
The museum will travel to schools and other venues in the London borough of Wandsworth and beyond. It will seek to create emotional connections between local communities and their heritage.
The museum's first major project, London Stories, will take place in November and will see Londoners recount tales of arriving in the city from other parts of the country or the world. The stories and sentimental objects that relate to them aim to offer an alternative view on migration than the one portrayed in the media, said a statement from BAC.
“Each storyteller will share an object that illustrates their experience – something that they held on to on their journey here or something that they became attached to since being here. London Stories will be a Moving Museum project – we will be creating a temporary museum of memories, anecdotes and personal artefacts that shine a light on the city’s history of migration," said a statement from BAC.
The museum, featuring objects from two collections relating to local history and the BAC site, is designed to inspire new activities and iterations of those already delivered by the centre, including performances, activities, installations and the digital archive. It will also highlight the heritage and restoration being carried out at the centre, which was partially destroyed by a fire last year.
BAC said there were plans to eventually host the moving museum on a bus.
Initially bicycles will be used to transport the museum – comprising historical objects, flat-pack workshop materials and information and items relating to the centre’s projects.
The museum will travel to schools and other venues in the London borough of Wandsworth and beyond. It will seek to create emotional connections between local communities and their heritage.
The museum's first major project, London Stories, will take place in November and will see Londoners recount tales of arriving in the city from other parts of the country or the world. The stories and sentimental objects that relate to them aim to offer an alternative view on migration than the one portrayed in the media, said a statement from BAC.
“Each storyteller will share an object that illustrates their experience – something that they held on to on their journey here or something that they became attached to since being here. London Stories will be a Moving Museum project – we will be creating a temporary museum of memories, anecdotes and personal artefacts that shine a light on the city’s history of migration," said a statement from BAC.
The museum, featuring objects from two collections relating to local history and the BAC site, is designed to inspire new activities and iterations of those already delivered by the centre, including performances, activities, installations and the digital archive. It will also highlight the heritage and restoration being carried out at the centre, which was partially destroyed by a fire last year.
BAC said there were plans to eventually host the moving museum on a bus.