Tips & Tools: 7 Tips to Get Over a ‘Tumbleweed Moment’
Have you asked a question to the participants on your tour and no one responds? You look around and all you can see are blank… Read More »Tips & Tools: 7 Tips to Get Over a ‘Tumbleweed Moment’
Have you asked a question to the participants on your tour and no one responds? You look around and all you can see are blank… Read More »Tips & Tools: 7 Tips to Get Over a ‘Tumbleweed Moment’
By Claire Bown How & when should we share information on guided tours? How can we do this productively and strategically? In this week’s post… Read More »Best Practices for Sharing Information on Guided Tours
How often do you think about how you position yourself on a guided tour? And how you position the group too? It can make all… Read More »Tips & Tools: Positioning on Guided Tours
Join me on 09 June at 16.00 hrs for a 90 minute online masterclass all about best practices for using information strategically. Knowing if, when… Read More »Information Overload: How Much is too Much on a Guided Tour?
How can you make museum-visiting with kids a stress-free experience? Here’s my quick guide to stress-free museum visits with kids – perfect for the school… Read More »Quick Guide to Stress-Free Museum Visits with your Kids
⭐️THINKING ROUTINE OF THE WEEK ⭐️ COLOURS-SHAPES-LINES This fantastic routine kicks off Day 2 of our ‘Visible Thinking in the Museum’ training. The routine helps people… Read More »Thinking Routine of the Week: Colour-Shape-Line
Parts-Purposes-Complexities is a thinking routine developed by Project Zero‘s Agency by Design research group. It is a wonderful routine for guiding inquiry into all sorts… Read More »Thinking Routine of the Week: Parts-Purposes-Complexities
3 Hours One Painting Jennifer Roberts, a professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, asks her students to select a painting from… Read More »Learning to Look: Slow Looking
On a guided tour, using an approach that appeals to all or some of the senses will help you to make your tour experiences more… Read More »Tips & Tools: Sensory Experiences on Guided Tours
As museum and tour guides, we want participants on our tours to look closely at objects. However, research has shown that the average time spent… Read More »Learning to Love ‘Boring’ Objects