Saltash is a small town on the Cornwall and Devon border on the Tamar estuary. The museums impact in rural communities can not be underestimated. They can also provide a way of building confidence and self-worth through volunteering and identification activities.
They offer coffee mornings, reminiscence events, and sometimes just a friendly chat and comfortable environment. So, community museums are crucial for older people facing later life loneliness.
People may be able to drive, but the challenge of taking out a car and navigating narrow lanes and parking spaces makes travelling to larger towns more difficult and not to be tackled lightly. In communities like these older people in particular suffer from rural isolation. This access to culture is vitally important in rurally isolated locations that have little public transport. A school visit or work placement in a friendly, welcoming organisation can establish a lifetime’s pattern of cultural engagement. These museums potentially form people’s first route into culture and play a vital role in establishing wider audiences for arts and heritage. If they have space they offer activities such as yoga, art classes and heritage talks. They focus on heritage but provide a richer cultural blend learning sessions will include storytelling and drama, music, drawing and creative writing. These museums usually offer the only access to cultural activity within their locations. These museums must innovate to survive, they have to stay relevant and engage and they do this because they are, first and foremost, community focussed. Many of these museums achieve Museum Accreditation meeting and maintaining national standards, and they are almost entirely volunteer run and managed, self-generating all income required to operate. They might more accurately be called micro museums. The grassroots museums discussed in this paper are located in often isolated rural communities and receive far fewer visitors. The Association of Independent Museums defines small museums as those receiving less than 20,000 visitors a year. ‘Small museums’ is a generic term for what others call community museums, or those museums based in rural locations small towns and villages that receive no regular, core funding.
The touchscreen will not respond when children touch the nonmatching side, but children will experience lights, animations, and music when they touch the side of the screen that matches the number of objects in the picture. At first, the side of the screen with the number of objects that matches the number of objects in the picture will light up to encourage children to touch it. In the game, children will be shown pictures on a touchscreen that displays 4 items on one side and 8 items on the other side. We are interested in whether the game helps improve children’s ability to differentiate between quantities.
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Children will not be told how to play this game, but will learn the game by playing it. In this study, children (ages 16-36 months) will play a matching game.
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