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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: A shared authority project with local migrant communities
Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum with Aisling O’Boyle, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language Education Research, Queen’s University Belfast
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 funding of the Centre for Cultural Value’s Collaborate programme.
The fund looks to support innovative new partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics to explore under-explored questions around cultural value.
What will the project explore?
Through this project, Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum and Aisling O’Boyle aim to establish sustainable collaborative relationships with local migrant communities exploring cultural inclusion, belonging and the value of museum learning.
Local migrant communities will co-design 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. There is also the hope that the project outcomes will inspire wider practice and have significance across the Northern Ireland museum sector.
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