Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole investigates Smarthistory, the new US-based phenomenon that is opening up art history to millions of online learners via the Khan Academy.

Ask Dr Steven Zucker and Dr Beth Harris where they got the idea for Smarthistory (tagline “Art. History. Conversation”) and they are characteristically modest, “It started quite humbly. We couldn’t get our students to read their art history textbooks. We needed a better way to inspire a conversation about art.”

Fast forward four years, and Smarthistory is part of a new generation of massively open educational platforms, offering access to more than 500 instructional videos about art and art history, used by millions of learners.

The RMN is very pleased to publish The Power of the Plough by Sally Ackroyd and Judith Carruthers.

Being large items ploughs are awkward to accommodate, and nowadays few people fully understand the differences between one and another or how they were used. This makes them a challenge to interpret but Sally’s and Judith’s work considers the many interesting and absorbing ways we treat ploughs and ploughing in our museums.

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Janine Marriott, Learning Coordinator from Arnos Vale Cemetery talks about their project which looks at the history of medicine in Bristol. The presentation was delivered to the 2012 UKMCG ‘Becoming a Healthy museum’ conference.

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Lucy Marcovitch, education consultant and writer, discusses PSHE and working with schools in this presentation, originally given at the ‘Becoming a Healthy museum’ conference in May 2012.

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Presentation by Michelle Douek from Dulwich Picture Gallery given at the 2012 conference ‘Becoming a Healthy Museum’ which discusses health and wellbeing in gallery programmes.

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Presentation from Dr Mandy Chivers, Assistnat Chief Executive of Mersey NHS Care Trust given at the UKMCG ‘Becoming a Healthy Museum’ conference in May 2012. This presentation looks at creative projects within the Mersey Care Trust.

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Victoria Betton, Deputy Director of strategic partnership in Leeds and York NHS foundation trust, discusses NHS partnership working and the Love Arts Leeds project. This presentation was held at the UKMCG ‘Becoming a Healthy Museum’ conference in May 2012.

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Presented at the 2012 ‘Becoming a Healthy Museum’ conference, this presentation by Andrew Furber, Director of Public Health, looks at the changing landscape of health and the NHS.

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