Museum Education – Jenny Pistella Associates

Podcast launch

Our New Museum School trainees have all written, recorded and produced their own podcasts about issues, objects, collections and narratives inspired by their placements at their host museums. I’m so proud of them! You can listen to them here: https://www.cultureand.org/podcasts/

ICOM CECA conference 2018

Last week I went to the ICOM Committee for Education and Cultural Action (ICOM-CECA) conference in Tbilisi, Georgia #ceca2018 Thank you to the International Council of Museums – ICOM UK for sponsoring me to come with a travel grant. Tbilisi is a beautiful city and we were looked after so well at our host site,Continue reading “ICOM CECA conference 2018”

Little Flamingos Club

In the 1900’s, Lionel Nathaniel de Rothschild (1882 – 1942) kept Flamingos as pets in the grounds of his home in Gunnersbury Park. So when I was commissioned to create a new Early Years’ series of workshops and resources for babies and toddlers for Gunnersbury Park Museum, choosing a Flamingo as a mascot for theContinue reading “Little Flamingos Club”

Immortalised

I have been working with Poppy Szaybo on creating schools resources and some case studies for the fantastic Immortalised project for Historic England. Immortalised is a season of activity to explore how, why and who England remembers in its streets, buildings and spaces. There are more statues of men called John than there are of real, non-royalContinue reading “Immortalised”

Shadow boxes

Here are some photos from a recent project I worked on for UCL Culture From September – November 2017 I ran an Art Club for 15 Year 6 students at William Tyndale Primary School in Islington. We had workshop sessions every Wednesday from 3.45-5pm where we learnt about UCL Museums collections and objects from the PetrieContinue reading “Shadow boxes”