Tag: helmets

• Recipe for Learning

  

  Salford 5th February 2020 A tale of a meet and greeter at IWM North, Manchester Take a good handful of young minds and interesting artifacts from a fire engine to a British tank under some really unusual lighting give them a tale of a teapot smashed and hold their attention with items in a display […]

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  5 Feb 2020

  IWM North, Poetry

  attention, Greet, handling, helmets, IWM, IWM North, Jet, Learning, Manchester, meet, Museum, objects, Plane, Salford, Schools, Table, Teapot, Trafford

• Capture it….

  Enthusiasm Young minds wondered aimlessly around the museum space hearing the sounds around them as they found their place   The colour returned – to their eyes upon seeing my trolley – to my surprise and hearing a colleague veterans tale it was like we’d found the holy grail   Stories were told as they wore […]

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  21 Dec 2016

  Heritage, Historical, History

  Collection, Colleges, Education, Enthusiasm, handling, helmets, Interests, IWM North, Learning, Listening, Memories, Museum, Poetry, Pupils, Schools, Stories, Veteran, War

• New Day of Vollying

  

  Monday Afternoon saw me returning back over the Bridge to the Home of the Imperial War Museum in the North, on the Trafford side of the Manchester Ship Canal Today has seen me on the Information point Handling trolley, where visitors from all around the country have been able to look at objects and pick them […]

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  3 Oct 2016

  Heritage, Historical, History, Memorial, Memories, Military, Museum, Museums

  Blogging 101, blogging101, Gasmasks, handling, Hats, helmets, Imperial War Museum, Manchester, Museum, North, objects, Volunteering, War

• On the exhibit floor

  

  Salford, 4th May This afternoon I’ve been helping out at the Imperial War museum North, after discussing the next project with BASICs photography group. The plan is to produce another exhibition in the centre from our work over their year. I covered the main gallery today with two fellow volunteers.  The information station was set […]

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  4 May 2016

  BASIC, Historical, History, Museum, Museums, Photography, War

  handling, helmets, Imperial War Museum, Information station, Manchester, Museum, objects, Trafford