
Ever wondered what makes a memorable museum or heritage experience? Or what it takes to lead engaging discussions around art, objects and ideas?
I offer a variety of specialist in-person training courses at your location to meet your team’s requirements.
VISIBLE THINKING IN THE MUSEUM TRAINING COURSES
Bespoke interactive courses for teams of museum and heritage educators; museum guides, docents and volunteers; teachers and learning practitioners in how to use the Visible Thinking in the Museum method to create engaging discussions about art and museum objects. Below we see an example of the typical agenda that I provide.
I have booked several courses with Thinking Museum over the years (Visible Thinking and Global Thinking). The courses always give inspiration to the guides and to the whole team. It makes everybody reflect upon their own style, role as a guide and techniques. Furthermore the courses give very practical tools to make guided tours more interactive, memorable and fun. I would recommend these courses to everybody.
It was a pleasure to work with Claire Bown, both in the planning, and implementation of the online training sessions.
Her in-depth knowledge of art, the museum context and thinking routines made the customisation of the training for an advanced team fun and professional.
We arranged the training in two parts, one part more focused on working with children and schools and one part more focused on general audience and adult groups.
The sessions have provided a common area of reflection for our team as well as new practical tools in facilitation.
We just finished our virtual training sessions with Claire Bown and it was absolutely fantastic! There are 90 Docents in our Museum program and I received nothing but positive feedback. The strategies, activities, and questioning tools provided will have a lasting impact on the quality of our Docent Program
Claire, thank you so very much for your incredible slow looking masterclass for my art museum education graduate students. We were all completely riveted by your calm, even demeanor and soothing voice. We could have listened to you all day. You were like the Pied Piper of Art Museum Education! You could have led us anywhere and we would have followed!
I was incredibly impressed with your organization both leading up to and during the session, the flow of class, the captivating piece of art you chose for our discussion, and the content of your presentation. It was everything I hoped it would be and more! I would love for all of my future cohorts of students to get the same opportunity to study with you. Thank you, Claire!”