CO-CREATION
It is our ambition that future exhibitions will be co-created with our primary audience: children and young people. We make research accessible, and involving our audience is essential to creating exhibitions that are relevant and thought-provoking.
By co-creation, we mean a process in which all participants contribute their experiences, perspectives and preferences, shaped by their own lives.
Children and young people bring their perspectives, researchers bring their specialised knowledge and museum professionals bring their curatorial expertise - and we value collaboration with teachers, artists, designers, specialists and anyone with an interest in our exhibitions.
We organise co-creation as an extended process, allowing different participants to explore, develop and reflect together over time.
Co-creation is not a puzzle in which individual ideas are collected and assembled into one big picture. Such an approach would fail to respect the shared creative process that unfolds across lived experiences and areas of expertise.
Instead, co-creation acts as a catalyst, allowing different ideas and perspectives to come together and become something new that no one could have anticipated. This means that participants may not recognise their individual ideas in the final result, but hopefully everyone will be able to relate to the exhibition.
Our goal is to create a museum that fosters reflection and curiosity, inspiring visitors to leave with a renewed and deeper fascination with the world around us.
