Education

Visual artist, curator and Director, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Dr David Sequiera began his creative research residency in July at the Grainger Museum, ‘waking up’ the museum from over a year since shutting its doors in March 2020.

Amy Vanderharst, Sociology of Culture class tutor, writes about her students’ engagement with the Grainger Museum.

Emilie Walsh, PhD student in Visual Art at the VCA and employee of Research Platform Services, UoM, writes about her experience engaging with the Grainger Museum in the area of teaching 3D modelling and printing.

The Grainger Museum Archives provides rich resources for students in musicology, such as those who visited the Grainger in Prof Kerry Murphy’s MUSI30032 Music Research.

The Grainger Museum is bringing regular music making back to its walls through the new Open Rehearsal Series.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) students from the VCA visited the Grainger to sketch and respond to the objects in the museum.

The Grainger Museum provided a rich context for student seminars in the 3rd year subject HIST30004 A History of Sexualities, coordinated by Dr Una McIlvenna, Hansen Lecturer in History.

Postgraduate students in the subject POPH90270 Bioethics and Public Health used the Grainger Museum in a seminar that stimulated ethical thinking through explorations of the life story of Percy Grainger.

The Grainger Museum was filled with infectious rhythms as students were shown dance moves by Cuban Artists.

Grainger Museum artefacts featured in a workshop at Arts West on 21st March 2017, as part of Diversity Week. Utilising the new object based learning labs, participants had the opportunity to engage with a variety of objects that showcased the cultural and physical diversity of the Grainger Museum’s rich archive.