Leiden Culture Menu
The Leiden Culture Menu consists of 6 parts:
- Research in the museum
- Research questions in the classroom
- Ethnographic research
- Design the future
- Exhibition
- Storytelling and audience
Research in the museum: investigating the past
- Critically ask questions:
1) with regard to the object
2) with regard to the object and its context
Source: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
The students go working in groups in the museum, we call them Creative Squads. Every Creative Squad goes out the same object explore the museum.
Source research is carried out, where critical questions are asked using the Object Maps. Sources can be found via the Object Maps*.
This can be physical sources in the museum, but also individuals or online sources can be consulted. After this part we go to the place where the object is and discover what the object is.
* Students can also choose to provide source material themselves
to be searched.
Source: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
Example: The Object & Object Analysis
What do you see?
What material is
made this object?
What does the object say about the time in which it was made?
Do you think this object is part of something bigger?
Do you know what is this object?
