Welcome to Museum Learning!
Work with my colleagues and me!
I am Elizabeth Roper BA (Hons), MA Heritage Management, historian, founder and lead practitioner of museumlearning.org.
I am an original content writer, and I work with a talented and creative team of illustrators and digital creators to help you make the most of the formal and informal learning opportunities in your collection or site.
I have been designing and delivering learning programmes for museums and historic sites for over three decades, winning the Sandford Award for Heritage Education in partnership with Rachel Hathaway Illustration in 2019.
I have always worked closely with schools, colleges and life long learning groups while worked as a Tutor, a Project Manager, a Learning Officer, an Interpretation Officer, an Outreach Worker and for the past 13 years as a freelance consultant and creative producer.
My past clients include regional museums, the National Trust, the Wildlife Trusts, Historic England, archives, castles, country estates, small collections and social projects, as well as direct delivery for schools.
Find out more below about the breadth of our experience, and about packages I offer for the management of museum learning. Visit the store for instant downloads on popular school visit topics, for background reading or use in workshops.
Services for museums & fees
Learning Programme launch or refresh with elizabeth
Recommended 5 - 10 days consultancy to include visits.
Package includes: matching collection to school curriculum needs; easily understood action points report (5 days), or writing and designing of workshops in addition (10 days)
Optional published learning materials and digital content
Day fee - consultancy: £250
Illustration and digital fees subject to project needs - please get in touch
BESPOKE EVENT CREATION
We plan and deliver a broad programme of events, from intense learning for a few families to a themed outdoor gatherings for 1000. Recent examples include a public drop-in event for a collaboration of six environmental organisations, and a family drop-in on medieval dyeing. Our past events have also included two storytelling festivals, a 6 week history course for families and video content for a remote consultation day.
If you need event design and a clear delivery plan to share with operations staff, we offer an affordable hourly rate with mutually agreed outcomes.
Event research, planning and creation
£30 per hour, billed monthly with scheduled updates
Remote or in-person teachers liaison for your museum - keeping them up to date and engaged with your offer
£25 per hour, billed monthly
Our clients and creations!
Case study: RHONDDA CYNON TAFF Council - Published learning materials - coming soon
“Linking medieval monasticism with PSHE”
Case study ‘creative response’ history workshops for Museum of gloucester public programme - coming soon
Anglo-Saxon remedies mapping for Gloucester City Council
CASE STUDY: cross curricular PSHE workshops for english heritage site -blackfriars priory - coming soon
The creative team
Elizabeth is lucky enough to work with illustrator/ designer, Rachel Hathaway whose vivid imagination and beautiful illustration style has bought so many historic characters to life. Our work has included learning materials for Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Tetbury Police Museum, Blackfriars Priory, Rhondda Heritage Park and the National Lido of Wales, Lido Ponty.
Rachel’s work can also be found at www.rachelhathaway.co.uk
In 2022 we worked in conjunction with Squeaky Pedal mulitmedia to produce short films for use in the Museum of Gloucester learning programme. Elizabeth wrote the story board and scripts while Squeaky Pedal recorded and edited footage.
