A consultation event with Glasgow Museums' Intercultural Youth Group

We need your help! Glasgow Museums' Intercultural Youth Group (ICY) are looking to develop a kit of objects for our Open Museum that specifically represents African and Caribbean histories and communities in the city of Glasgow, highlighting migration and community building from 1900 onwards.

Do you have any objects that you think would fit the theme and would be happy to part with? Or any ideas that could inform the kit?

Then join us for an informal meeting on Monday 21st September from 6-8pm at Kelvin Hall (Seminar Room 1). Please feel free to drop by at any time, for as little or as much time as you would like. There will be an opportunity to see other examples of Open Museum Handling Kits, take a look around some of the social history collection in the stores at Kelvin Hall, and chat about our plans for the project.

The ICY is a group of young adults from Global Majority backgrounds who have been working with the museum service over the past 2 years to share ideas, advise on projects and produce artwork.

The Open Museum is Glasgow Museums' outreach service which takes objects from the museum collections out to communities across the city. This is done by loaning out handling kits, which feature objects that are part of the museum collection and are linked to a certain theme.

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We are specifically on the lookout for objects that people might be willing to donate to the kit. These objects would become part of Glasgow Museums permanent collection. ICY group members working on the project have suggested some of the following things:

- Posters / Leaflets for Afro-Caribbean events or traditional festivals

- Leaflets for events or traditional festivals

- Adverts for services (hair salons etc)

- Food wrappers (imported foods etc)

- Fashion

- Books representing Black Diasporic writers in Scotland (Jackie Kay, Maud Saulter)

- DVDs/Videos

We are really open to any form of collaboration as historically these histories haven't been represented in the collection. So if this resonates with you, please come along!

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