Pitt Rivers Museum and Ruskin College collaboration
Ruskin student Denise Pakeman with Polynesian artists George Nuku and Rosanna Raymond
Ruskin College is based in Oxford and specializes in providing educational opportunities for adults with few or no qualifications. It aims to recruit and develop those many adults who want a 'second chance' in education and offers university-standard courses in the informal setting of a small residential college. For further information about Ruskin College please visit http://www.ruskin.ac.uk
In establishing this arrangement in 2010, Ruskin College and the Pitt Rivers Museum are seeking to build a strong, positive and enduring relationship between their two organizations and to provide a framework to consolidate and advance the collaboration. As part of the agreement, access to voluntary work placements at Pitt Rivers Museum will be made available to students of Ruskin College. In return, the College will help further invigorate the Museum's work through widening its potential audiences and providing established channels to additional sources of opinion and approaches to education.
The primary purpose of the collaboration is to work together to enhance learning opportunities. The key aims are to:
- Open up and share each other’s facilities and/or expertise in appropriate ways
- Broaden the sectors of the community with which each organization establishes links
- Widen access to educational, historical and anthropological resources and networks
Ruskin college and the Pitt Rivers Museum 2010-11
Short film exploring volunteer students' expectations and experiences of the inaugural year of the collaboration between the Pitt Rivers Museum and Ruskin College, Oxford.
List of resources to be added to:
Exploring culture and identity through moko tattoos and wooden carvings
An article describing an encounter with Polynesian objects, people and places.
(pdf download)
A Turkana apron from Kenya
Exploring how a single object in the Museum can be a gateway to stories about a collector and another culture's lifestyle and customs. (pdf download)
