Our last week of the expressive arts and culture module we went a trip to Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. Kelvingrove is one of 20 museums in Glasgow and is one of Scotlands most popular free attraction.
I gained a lot of knowledge from this trip for a future teacher. Before I always thought school trips would be expensive but for schools outside Glasgow it would cost around £20. As a future teacher I feel it would be important to build positive relationships with local museums as it is a worthwhile learning experience and may be the only time children will get this experience will be through their primary school.
Our task in the museum was to choose a topic and take ten pictures throughout the museum. I chose family and love as my theme – which represents my evocative object.
Below are the ten images I took – there is a mixture between mothers and children, friends, marriage and religion. I have a range of different images from different galleries in the museum – I have taken picture of statues, ornaments, paintings and photographs which all share the common theme.
At the beginning I found this difficult to find what I was looking for, the museum has twenty-two galleries it was difficult to choose what galleries to go to that will have the images I’m looking for in a short space of time.
As a whole, I really enjoyed the trip to the museum and is somewhere I would visit with children in my class in the future. It is important for children to embrace culture and have the opportunity to visit museums and art galleries.
