YAG Meeting, 24 August 2012

In this meeting, we explored a team agreement of house rules for the Youth Advisory Group. We looked at ways to include everyone's ideas to make this a safe, co-operative, respectful place for learning and sharing. We came up with lots of good suggestions, including bringing enthusiasm and a positive attitude, have the right to opt out, and allow others to fully explain their ideas before starting a new conversation.

Youth Advisors sharing ideas

We also talked about making  YAG handbook for new members to join, containing a history of the YAG and the Museum, what we do, previous projects, contact details, maps (perhaps with highlights of the collection from the Youth Advisors), trivia about the Museum and fun stuff! We will explore this more and hopefully get to work with the Museum's Design team to make it happen.
We talked about the questions we will explore over the next year in order to understand and share the themes of the National Maritime Museum...

Why is the sea so important to Britain?

How has it shaped British history, identity and place in the world?

Why is Greenwich at the centre of this story?

How is it relevant today?

What does it mean to me?

 

The Youth Advisors started adding their ideas to these questions and sharing what ideas we have about the sea.

 



Playing games in the Museum

Our next meeting will be in September - Shauna is seeing about a trip to Museum of Docklands to meet with another youth group there...

 

 

About Us

The National Maritime Museum's Youth Advisory Group have been together since 2008.
We work with the Museum to create youth-led opportunities. We welcome young people aged 14-21 years to take part in creative and heritage workshops to share skills and ideas.
We meet once a month to work on new and exciting projects. Refreshments included at each meeting.
New members are always really welcome. To see a film made by previous Youth Advisors talking about their work here, please visit http://www.rmg.co.uk/about/youth/

Please contact Shauna O’Brien, Youth Participation Officer, if you'd like to find out more
Tel: 020 8312 6787
Text: 07930 869 658
Email: SAO’Brien@rmg.co.uk


Youth Advisors in the Museum Galleries