museumaker is a prestigious national project, involving sixteen museums across four participating regions.
museumaker is unlocking the creative potential of collections through imaginative interchanges between the heritage and contemporary craft sectors.
museumaker will run continuously until Spring 2011 with the first seven projects taking place over the Summer of 2010. Major events will take place in the four museumaker regions (East Midlands, London, South East and North East). museumaker is also organising a number of public lectures and workshops.
As well as offering new experiences for current museum visitors, museumaker will demonstrate innovative ways of developing audiences; especially children, families and young people. Each museum has commissioned one or more outstanding makers to create intriguing new work in response to the venue and its collections. A maker-led participatory project, engaging a wide range of visitors, will be integral to each programme. There are also opportunities for partner museums to develop new products for retail.
museumaker originated in the East Midlands and is a Renaissance East Midlands project.
museumaker is supported by Arts Council England, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and its programme Renaissance.
Along with The Shape of Things and Forming Ideas, museumaker is one of the three projects which comprise Forming the Future. This is the Arts Council England’s major strategic initiative which spans England and reaches out to international craft practice with the aim of taking contemporary craft forward strategically.
