Videos

VID 1 MUSEUMS IN ACTION DAY - 16.10.1993
A record of the teacher’s workshops and familiarisation day held at three museums as part of SMCC Education Programme

VID 2 HANDLING AND PRESERVING FAMILY RECORDS. (Public Record Office)
The video guide to caring for documents, textiles and objects from the past.

VID 3* BUILDING NEW AUDIENCES FOR MUSEUMS
A video and booklet introducing leisure learning programmes as an exciting, stimulating way of interpreting exhibits and attracting a larger, broader audience.

VID 4 PLEASE TOUCH
A record of an exhibition by the Norfolk Museum Service for the visually impaired.

VID 5 MISSING LINKS? (The Museum Documentation Association)
Together with fact sheet. It explains the importance of proper labelling and marking and demonstrates recommended techniques for a variety of collections.

VID 6 USING MUSEUMS
for Primary and Secondary Schools. Museums today can offer exciting forms of collaboration between teachers, museums curators and education officers to provide children with outstanding educational experiences. Two programmes, shot around Britain, show excellent examples of this work in practice - one focusing on primary schools, the other on secondary. Projects for primary children always involve active learning. Work for secondary pupils is more concerned with museum collections and practical problem solving. Both programmes demonstrate the importance of preparation and follow-up work.

VID 7 THE MAKING OF SURREY
A video from the gallery of Guildford Museum

VID 8 ACCESS ALL AREAS
This short video offers help and reassurance - simple, cost effective, common sense solutions to some of the problems facing disabled tourists.

VID 9 WEBSITES THAT WORK
Shows Website designers that accessible Website design is easy to implement and of huge benefit to disabled Internet users.

VID 10 THE STORY OF THAMES DITTON
A video presented by the Thames Ditton Junior School

VID 11 KEEPING UP WITH THE PAST: Making Historic Buildings Accessible to Everyone (English Heritage / Centre for Accessible Environments, 1997)
With the advent of the National Lottery and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, accessibility is the hot potato of conservation and this video focuses on the importance of full understanding, early consultation and good design in the management of change and inevitable alteration. It intends to increase awareness and to aid access groups, conservation officers and design professionals to improve access for disabled people to historic properties.