Are you looking forward to leading your tours this year? Are you getting excited by the thought of the new season starting? If you’re… Read More »Stuck in a Tour Rut? 6 Tips to Refresh your Guided Tour
In my previous post on facilitation skills, ‘A Quick Guide to Facilitation Skills on Guided Tours‘, I talked about the many skills required to being… Read More »Core facilitation tools to make your museum programmes more interactive
Much has been written about the power of art works, objects, artefacts to inspire, provoke curiosity and interest. It is generally accepted that looking at… Read More »Slow-Looking: In-Depth Experiences with Art and Museum Objects
During my workshops teaching the Thinking Museum® Approach, I introduce participants to the 8 Practices associated with the method. One of these is facilitation. What… Read More »A Quick Guide to Facilitation Skills
Routines are an important part of the guided tour experience. As you welcome guests or visitors at the start of a tour, you will take… Read More »How to Use Visible Thinking Routines on Guided Tours
Visible Thinking and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) often get confused. Here are some of the differences and similarities between the two frameworks. So, deep breath, here we… Read More »Visual Thinking Strategies and Visible Thinking
When we talk about engagement in the museum, we are often referring to engaging young people, teenagers, non-traditional museum-goers and school groups. However, museums are… Read More »Designing engaging museum experiences for adults
I was recently talking to a fellow museum educator about how they were given a 10 minute training on how to use thinking routines (from… Read More »More than a strategy: using questioning frameworks in museum discussions
Originally posted by Rebecca Shulman Herz on Museum Questions: “A number of people have reached out to me to share ways in which they, too,… Read More »Field trips that teach thinking skills
Maybe looking at art is not the first thing that springs to mind when we talk about sharpening transferable skills and building strong teams, but… Read More »5 reasons why art discussions build strong and successful teams