This document discusses crossing borders and frontiers in various contexts such as culture, geography, and learning. It contains snippets of poems, quotes, and discussions on a range of topics including Danish culture in the UK, hands-on history, audience research, community ownership, medical research priorities, storytelling techniques, and the aspiration of museums. The overarching theme is about exploring new ideas and perspectives through heritage, culture, and learning.

1. Crossing the borders
With Nick Winterbotham
Horsens, March 2013 1

2. Danish culture in the UK
• Borgen
• Forbrydelsen
• Carlsberg
• Bacon
• B&O
• Sensible politics
• The DNA of more than half of the UK population
And yet NOT
• Dinner for One

3. Crossing frontiers
.. and across the frontiers of darkness
There will always be safe passage for
the smugglers of light..
Proverb 3

4. ???

5. ???

6. Crossing frontiers
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T S Eliot
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7. Hands-on history

8. pivotal experiences 8

9. ???

10. ???

11. Crossing frontiers
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12. Crossing frontiers
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13. Hunting in packs?

15. Hands-on history

16. ..and anyway what happens to
gallery-based knowledge?

17. ..and anyway what happens to
gallery-based knowledge?
FACTS

18. The memory is challenged, but the
attention is captured
FACTS

19. ..and attention leads to engagement,
but..
FACTS

20. ..and so we move from the cognitive
domain (knowledge)..

21. .. to the affective domain (feelings)
Where we’ll always
remember the first time we
met Mona Lisa
And we might even
remember how we felt about
her

22. .. and we might pick up our pencils
again

23. .. Or take up body-building..

24. .. One thing’s certain, we will have
shifted our perspective!
Probably
forever..

25. Crossing frontiers?
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26. Crossing frontiers?
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27. ???
Genocide Museum, Yerevan

28. ???

29. The Nail Puzzle
challenge..
.. And how we learn

30. We hold these things to be self-evident
1. Our heritage is not about things it is about people
2. Everyone has a right to know about and be at ease
with heritage
3. Heritage embraces the past and present of all
cultures
4. Heritage is essential as the cradle of everyone’s
tomorrow
5. Heritage encompasses all literature, science,
technology, environments and arts

31. We hold these things to be self-evident
6. The multiple narratives of heritage deserve respect
7. Learning is an entitled journey; not a destination
8. Heritage learning is an entitlement for everyone
9. The development of heritage learning skills and
techniques must be a perpetual excellence.
10. Learning is not simply a justification for cultural
spending, it is the ultimate justification for cultural
spending.

32. The Nail Puzzle challenge..
• Mission
• Resilience
• Experience
• Team-working
• Digital cognition
• Anxiety management
• Flow
• Pay-off

33. Time for some audience research
Hands up all those that can
remember your first English
lesson?
..And now your first visit to a
museum?
..And now your first visit to a
Planetarium?

34. “What they need
to know is...”

35. What they need
to know is...

36. What they need
to know is...

37. What they need
to know is...

38. What they need
to know is...

39. What they need to
know is… they and
their views matter

40. Community ownership through
co-creation in Birmingham
Expertise in inclusion
Building on established
community networks
Delivering initiatives driven
by the community
Getting more and more
local people involved 40

41. And what we discovered by this
simple expedient..
“None of us is as
smart as all of us”
Satchel Paige

42. What should medical
scientists work on next?
“A cure for cancer (my Nan died of
it) and a way of slimming that doesn’t
involve starving myself..”
Girl, 15, Birmingham 42

43. Reaching out in Halifax
The Eureka! Bakoo spirit 43

44. Does it use all our senses?
Visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic
Olfactory
Gustatory

45. The world’s best museum script..?
Theatre in education
Grandad

46. Video stories
and
drastic surgery

47. Juxtaposition
and images

48. Interpreting the invisible

49. Tell it in sounds

50. Saying it in images.. And quantity

51. Say it in
suitcases

52. The sky as art
and animals that
read!

53. Hands-on history

54. Hands-on discovery

55. Learning environments
Family learning

56. The lure of storage

57. NRM & MMSI

58. Cultivate competence – with a
sense of humour
National Railway Museum
Public Services team

59. Fun ..
..the oxygen of
learning
Glæde er den
bedste
fødselshjælper
for læring

60. ..and the visitor’s take will give us a
learning opportunity..

61. ..and the visitor’s take will give us a
learning opportunity..

62. Our motto should be..
“If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance”
Derek Bok

63. Tell the truth?

66. Richard Feynman
"If you think you understand
quantum mechanics, you don't
understand quantum mechanics".

67. And in case you missed it…

68. The Aspiration
To be :
• Highly relevant
• Fun
• Accessible
• Well marketed
• High performing
• Learning- and curriculum-friendly
and
• To create narrative through dialogue

69. The Quaintification principle
‘9-11’ = an outrage
Lockerbie = a disaster
Aberfan = a tragic event
Omaha Beach = a hard-fought victory
Gallipoli = a great movie
Titanic = a romantic script
Battle of Waterloo = a colourful spectacle
Battle of Marston Moor = a jolly good
weekend’s fun for the Civil War Society

70. Would Mo Farah have come to a racist and
exclusive Britain?

71. Why it’s important
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

72. ???

73. The voice for heritage learning
Thank you
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