BACKGROUND TO MK Y2Y CONSULTATION

Millennium Kids (MK) is working with the Western Australian Museum and the Commissioner for Children and Young People to offer young people an opportunity to have a say about how the Museum presents it’s exhibitions and collections through an innovative series of workshops and training activities. It’s all part of a new initiative to consult with young people about the future directions of the Western Australian Museum.

Millennium Kids will be scouring the region for inspiring people with stories to tell or exhibit to inspire young people in the lead up to the workshops.

The MK Team have already consulted with a number of people who have some fabulous exhibition concepts around the things that inspire them about the local region.

On the 1 April a team of thirty interested young people will be trained as facilitators who will lead the one day workshop on 2 June with one hundred young delegates.

Photographs of Albany Times Past - IMAGES COURTESY ALBANY HISTORY COLLECTION, ALBANY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Monday, June 29, 2009

What the Children's Commissioner has to say!

Hi Bloggers,

I want to congratulate you all for thinking about new ways people can experience exhibitions at the museum. Your ideas on what and how things could be displayed like the ‘feel case’ suggested by Kyle are great ways of doing things differently.

The Indigenous Message Sticks were my inspiration and I am thrilled so many of you are interested in bringing different cultures together in celebration. I am very impressed with the range of ideas on the blog, from the environment to human rights issues and interesting things in everyday life.

It’s great you have taken the time to have a say and to see it in action here in this blog. I’m always telling people that kids have many fantastic ideas and want to have a say about what goes on in their community.

Keep blogging in the Great Southern and enjoy the exhibition.

Michelle, Commissioner for Children and Young People

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