National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Specialist
museums and heritage consultant with two economist colleagues from the University
of Birmingham School of Public Policy which carried out the Quinquennial
Review of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales for the National
Assembly. Trustees, key staff and stakeholders were interviewed and the 8
national museum sites were visited to assess: corporate governance; financial
control; strategic policy; collections management; education; training; staff
development; marketing; interpretation and access.
Black Country Living History Museum
Feasibility
study and options appraisal for the development of a visitor centre
adjacent to the canal tunnel at Todd’s End for the Black Country Museum,
Black Country Canal Navigation Trust and British Waterways. This involved
an assessment of the issues affecting the strategic development of this key
site on the Black Country Canal network, an assessment of the options, opportunities
and constraints and brokering an agreement between the three main stakeholders
who had competing strategic aims.
Design, Print Production and Project Management
We have carried out Copywriting, Design and Production of fixed interpretive media at a range of locations including: Weoley Castle,Prestatyn Roman Baths; Fotheringhay Church and Castle and other County Heritage Sites throughout Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes Parks. Collaborated with landscape architects in Milton Keynes to produce a series of neighbourhood play areas with 3D play equipment/sculpture inspired by local archaeology and geology, including a very popular ‘Jurassic park’.
We have written, designed and project managed a range of exhibitions, leaflets guidebooks and community newsletters at: Milton Keynes Archaeology Unit; Buckinghamshire County Museum service; Wellingborough Heritage Centre; Rockingham Castle; Northamptonshire County Heritage Sites; Canterbury Archaeological Trust; Marshfield Archaeological Project (Avon); Clwyd and Powys Archaeological Trust, Sabbath Walks LHI pilot project, and Warley Woods Community Trust.
Community Events/ Archaeology in Education/Community Arts
The
Bancroft Villa Thriller, Milton Keynes. Worked for 6 months with community
artists and more than 200 pupils from four schools in Milton Keynes to research,
devise and stage a spectacular performance inspired by real archaeological
evidence to reveal the stories of two young people who lived around 2000 years
ago on the site of the park. This innovative project involved the pupils as
archaeologists making their own discoveries and using real evidence to produce
their own interpretations; they collaborated through storytelling, theatre
and performance arts culminating in a dramatic fireshow where the pupils delivered
their performance to an enthralled audience.
Archaeological Monographs
Canterbury,
Marlowe Car Park excavations: Joint author of two volume monograph
on a four year continuous programme of excavations on deeply stratified
urban deposits in the centre of Canterbury (link to Time Team Big Dig page)
Rhuddlan: Joint author of monograph on an important programme of excavations
at Rhuddlan North Wales from Mesolithic to medieval. Council for British Archaeology
Research Report 95.
Design + Content, Marion Blockley - Heritage Management