Penguins and Polar bears!

Although we’ve been a little quiet on the blog front, we have been working away behind the scenes here at Creative Learning HQ getting ready for a brand new exhibition we know you’re going to love!!!

This weekend the museums new temporary winter exhibition ‘Among The Polar Ice’ brings together two major series of artworks by leading Scottish artists Frances Walker and James Morrison. The exhibition features the extreme landscapes of the Polar Regions at a time when melting ice and rising sea levels are making world headlines. The spectacular paintings offer a visual record of these fragile areas and raise awareness of global warming.

You will notice our ‘Family Space’ may appear a little icier than usual … the penguins have escaped from an original Frances Walker print and made it feel a little more like home! Wrap up warm with our ‘Polar Dress Up’ corner and prepare for your own expedition to see how many penguins you can find! We also have an exciting new range of books for you to enjoy, and lots of other creative activities to keep your little polar explorers busy!

 

Our Exhibition ‘Among the polar ice’ in the Here & Now Gallery, opens on Saturday 7th September. Play and learn in the Museum’s Family Space. Drop in each day to try out our fun creative activities, themed costumes, books and games  The Family space is open daily 10am until 5pm and returns this weekend.

 

Meet the Team!

Hello and welcome to our Creative Learning blog. We are Sharron and Kim and we work at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum in the Creative Learning Team. We are passionate about Arts & Heritage, learning, history and creativity.

We create and shape arts and heritage workshops and projects, tailored around exploring and interpreting the museum’s fantastic collection. Our main focus is to help to bring the collection to life for all our visitors. We want to know why the museum is important to you and what makes The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum the people’s museum!

We work with lots of visitors including school pupils, community groups, college and university students and children and their families. We are based in the museum and do most of our work in our Learning Studio. We work with many city partners and organisations outwith the museum to help us bring elements of the collection to life – there are no two days the same for us and we love working with people on lots of exciting projects.

Keep up to date on how our blog develops as we’ve got lots more to share with you!