Projects
Hackney Museum is actively engaged with our local community. We run our own projects, working in partnership with local groups and individuals, but also contribute to the project work of other local organisations, museums and heritage organisations across London.
Current projects
See link on the left of this page.
Past projects
London Museums Hub Refugee Heritage Project
We worked with members of three Kurdish community organisations, Day-Mer, Halkevi and KCC, over three years to record aspects of Kurdish culture and heritage, created a loan box of objects that schools can borrow, and educational resources for teachers.
For more information see the Museum of London website or the Refugee Heritage Report.
Abolition ’07: Commemorating the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade
Museum staff worked extensively with members of the African-Caribbean community in Hackney along with members of the project steering group, to devise and develop an exhibition, a documentary film, theatre performance and poetry based interactive exhibition tours for visiting school groups. They also commissioned new art work and art projects for local groups in response to the parliamentary abolition of the slave trade.
Allen Road Project
Hackney Museum supported this project run by the local Residents Association, which successfully applied for HLF funding to process and digitally ‘stitch together’ a panorama of photographs taken in Allen Road in 1972, and to commission new photography to create a contemporary record of the road.
Page updated: 5 Jun 2008