Community Outreach

Community Outreach at Tullie House has been developing some exciting projects and programmes that communities in Carlisle and District have been able to participate in and enjoy. Young people from Longtown and Botcherby youth groups, inspired by the Body Space fashion exhibition at Tullie House, went on to produce their own fashion pieces made out of recycled materials.

Children from a Morton West youth group were able to handle old cameras from the museum’s handling collection. Inspired by the No Such Thing as Society photographic exhibition, and the notion of, ‘community’, they took photographs and produced framed collages which will be hung in their local school.

Elderly groups have also enjoyed visiting exhibitions at Tullie House, and, having been inspired, have gone on to produce their own artworks with the help of an artist and support from the Tullie House volunteers. Elderly groups can also enjoy reminiscence sessions that volunteers, trained in reminiscence, deliver using themed reminiscence boxes. Some of the boxes include, 1940s, Childhood Memories, Holidays and Rural Life.

During the summer at community centres, local families can enjoy a range of themed art and craft activities, handling objects from the collections and meeting a re-enactor. All the community projects are linked to the museum’s collections and exhibitions and very often the communities get the opportunity to showcase their work at Tullie House.

Susan Child
(Community Outreach Officer)
01228 618763