Abstract
Yours, Mine, and Ours (YMO) is a research partnership project between Dr Collette Brownlee, Education Services Officer, Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum and Dr Aisling O’Boyle, Director (SFHEA) Centre for Language Education Research, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast, with the support of Prof Olwen Purdue, Centre of Public History, and Prof Tony Gallagher, Centre of Shared Education.
This partnership was awarded a research grant in June 2023 as part of the UKRI funded Centre for Cultural Value’s “Collaborate” Fund, which supports innovative partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics to explore under-explored questions around cultural value. Lisburn Museum and the Yours, Mine, and Ours Project was selected as one of the five funded projects from over 200 applications across from the UK. The aims of the YMO project were to establish sustainable collaborative relationships with local migrant communities to explore cultural inclusion, belonging and placemaking; to support non-user migrant communities in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area to become involved in their local museum.
The creative aspects of the YMO project involved groups of people coming together in the museum to create their own artefacts. Providing an authentic welcome and bespoke programme was integral to encouraging a sense of wellbeing, addressed feelings of isolation and exclusion and examined views on placemaking. As with other Lisburn Museum social engagement projects Yours, Mine and Ours, used a shared authority approach to museum-based experiences, the topic of Collette Brownlee’s doctoral thesis (2020). As part of the academic partnership, the YMO project was designed as a seedbed for the development of an Impact Toolkit for the local museum sector, with a design that could be easily adapted for museums across NI and beyond.
This partnership was awarded a research grant in June 2023 as part of the UKRI funded Centre for Cultural Value’s “Collaborate” Fund, which supports innovative partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics to explore under-explored questions around cultural value. Lisburn Museum and the Yours, Mine, and Ours Project was selected as one of the five funded projects from over 200 applications across from the UK. The aims of the YMO project were to establish sustainable collaborative relationships with local migrant communities to explore cultural inclusion, belonging and placemaking; to support non-user migrant communities in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area to become involved in their local museum.
The creative aspects of the YMO project involved groups of people coming together in the museum to create their own artefacts. Providing an authentic welcome and bespoke programme was integral to encouraging a sense of wellbeing, addressed feelings of isolation and exclusion and examined views on placemaking. As with other Lisburn Museum social engagement projects Yours, Mine and Ours, used a shared authority approach to museum-based experiences, the topic of Collette Brownlee’s doctoral thesis (2020). As part of the academic partnership, the YMO project was designed as a seedbed for the development of an Impact Toolkit for the local museum sector, with a design that could be easily adapted for museums across NI and beyond.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 36 |
Publication status | Published - 17 Aug 2024 |