LEM - The Learning Museum Network (LLP/Grundtvig - 2010-2013) is a network project which aims to establish a permanent network and webspace for museums and adult educators to participate in a learning society and in a knowledge based Europe.

ECHOE – Education for Heritage, Outdoor Education (LLP/Grundtvig - 2010 - 2012) will explore ways to combine education for/about heritage (especially related to historic and archaeological sites) with outdoor education (including ecology, heritage protection, sports, leisure and open air activities). The project will identify the difficulties faced by the local stakeholders in taking this approach (published in the form of a needs analysis report), it will develop a series of methodological papers providing guidance to both adult educators and cultural operators, and it will explore through a series of workshops what would be a practical way of creating and implementing such blended educational programmes.

INTERMUSE (LLP/Comenius - 2008-2010) started from the idea that museums represent valuable resources for intercultural education but innovative methodologies need to be developed to increase motivation for learning, particularly among upper-secondary school pupils. The project aims to stimulate pupils’ active involvement in intercultural learning and their reflection on sensitive and complex issues regarding cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, as well as their willingness to learn other languages, by engaging them in the design of computer games in the framework of school-museum cooperation.

VOCH - Volunteers for Cultural Heritage (LLP/Grundtvig - Nov 2007 - Oct 2009) started out by acknowledging the increasing importance of the voluntary sector for preserving cultural heritage and running cultural institutions, such as museums. It explored this phenomenon at European level, identifying different types of voluntary work and the areas of activity in which cultural volunteers are engaged, with the objective of designing training addressed both to volunteers themselves and to the people responsible for volunteer programmes within cultural organisations.

MAP for ID - Museums as Places for Intercultural Dialogue (LLP/Grundtvig - 2007-2009) aimed to develop the potential and practice of museums as places of intercultural dialogue and to promote a more active engagement with the communities they serve.

When we first started to assemble a bibliography that might support learners involved in Labyrintheme, we realized that our job is both easier and harder than we expected.
It is easier because we found very few relevant titles: some on performing in museums and other heritage-related spaces (which mainly refer either to performers using museum spaces as 'passive' stages, or to re-enactment approaches), some on site-specific performance, and next to nothing for labyrinth or sensory theatre. And it is obviously harder because it seems we will have to create our own bibliography. Not quite bad for a rather small project that primarily aimed to introduce staff working in heritage institutions to an innovative tool to render their institutions more participatory.

Please enjoy the list below and submit any addition proposal to labyrintheme @ gmail.com.

Museums, performance, education

The Performance, Learning and Heritage research project is an investigation into the uses and impact of performance as a medium of learning and interpretation in museums and at historic sites. Funded by a major research grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the project ran for three and a half years from 2005 to 2008. The project generated the volume Performing heritage. Research, practice and innovation in museum theatre and live interpretation - Anthony Jackson, Jenny Kidd, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)

The Participatory Museum - Nina Simon (Museum 2.0, 2010)

The Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide - Erica Pastore (2009)

Museums and Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance - Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (Routledge, 2007)

The Role of Museums in Society: Education and Social Action - George E. Hein (2005)

Performing Objects: Museums, Material Culture and Performance in Southeast Asia - Fiona G. Kerlogue, ed. (Horniman Museum & Gardens, 2004)

GEM (Group for Education in Museums) Museum Education Bibliography

Site-specific performance

Site-Specific Performance - Mike Pearson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Site-Specific Performance at Historical Sites: Resources, Bibliographies and Examples - prepared by Katie Chavez (August 2005)

Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation - Nick Kaye (Routledge, 2000)

Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of the Oppressed - Augusto Boal (Pluto Press, 2008)

Games for Actors and Non-actors - Augusto Boal (Routledge, 2002)