Collaborate project spotlight
Find out more about the research project between Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum and Aisling O’Boyle, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language Education Research, Queen’s University Belfast.
Yours, mine and ours
Research partnership:
Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum with Aisling O’Boyle, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language Education Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Research focus:
Establishing sustainable collaborative relationships with local migrant communities and exploring cultural inclusion, belonging and the value of museum learning.
This partnership was awarded a research grant in June 2023 as part of the second round of the Centre for Cultural Value’s Collaborate programme.
The fund supported innovative new partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics to explore under-explored questions around cultural value.
What is the project exploring?
Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum and Aisling O’Boyle are developing sustainable collaborative relationships with local migrant communities exploring cultural inclusion, belonging and the value of museum learning.
People from local migrant communities are co-designing the project via workshops, capacity-building sessions, craft sessions and an end-of-project public engagement event. Through a shared authority approach, the project will facilitate the creation of a textile piece(s) entitled “Our Stories” for the museum’s permanent collection.
Research findings will support future relationship-building with migrant communities and develop the museum’s collections to reflect contemporary local demographics. The ambition is that the project outcomes will inspire wider practice and have significance across the Northern Ireland museum sector.
We will update you with more findings from the project over the next year.
