The Garden Museum is a small, accessible and friendly museum.
The Garden Museum aims to inspire learners through its collections, temporary exhibitions, architectural setting and gardens.
Learning opportunities are provided through hands-on practical activities.
Gardens and gardening can be a source of well being and enrichment for children and adults and also a focus for greater awareness about issues relating to the environment and sustainability. Activities offered at the museum range from gardening to cooking to art. The museum’s education room is used for all year round activities.
Outreach
The museum can provide some outreach and advice to schools in Lambeth for garden related activities e.g. gardening clubs. Please enquire by email as to availability.
Environmental Education
Environmental education and learning outside the classroom is becoming increasingly important especially for schools trying to achieve Eco School status. Three of the topics in the Eco Schools programme are relevant to gardening activities: ‘Bio-diversity’, ‘Healthy Living’ and ‘School Grounds’. A fourth ‘Global Perspectives’ has potential for gardening topics. Recently the Garden Museum provided some bottle top waterers to a school in South Africa for using to water vegetables in their school ‘tyre’ garden.
Teacher’s Evenings
The Garden Museum has teamed up with ‘LEEF’ (London Environmental Education Forum) to provide training and networking opportunities for environmental educators and teachers.
Examples of Projects in 2009
Garden Starter Kits for Schools
The Garden Museum instigated a scheme to provide every primary school in Lambeth with a Garden Starter Kit. The project was funded by the Ernest Cook Trust and enabled a crate with gardening equipment, seeds and gloves to be delivered to each of the 62 schools. They were delivered by electric van and milk float!
White Hart Dock Community Engagement Project
Children from local schools made seedbombs in the museum for guerrilla gardening. Wooden boats made by Year 4 from Vauxhall School with sculptor Lea Torp Nielsen are on display in the education room.
http://www.handspringdesign.co.uk/whitehartdock/gardens.htm
Contact
details
Janine
Nelson
Schools & Community Officer
Telephone: 020 7401 8865 *836
Fax: 020 7401 8869
E-mail: janine@gardenmuseum.org.uk
