Kids in Museums

We’re very lucky at Kids In Museums to have several highly skilled and dedicated volunteers helping us run the organisation…

MAY REDFERN has worked in the museum and heritage sector for the past twelve years. Since 2005 she has practiced as a independent consultant, providing management support to a variety of non profit organisations. Before that May worked at Harewood House Trust, Leeds, the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge and The Farmland Museum & Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire. May trained as a curator at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere where in 1997 she was the first recipient of a Modern Apprenticeship in Museums, Galleries and Heritage. She went on to complete an MA in Museum Studies in 1998 and a Clore Fellowship in 2005-7.

SAMANTHA SELF currently works for Handel House Museum at their Administrator and recently finished her MA in Arts and Museum Management at Salford. She volunteers for Kids in Museums in her spare time by assisting with bookkeeping, research and administration. Her MA speciality was collections digitisation and 2D/3D interpretation with her dissertation focussing on evaluating a specially created video game as an interpretive tool for young people at a museum in Preston. Before this Sam studied Ancient History and Archaeology at University of Birmingham where she realised her desire to work in heritage. Sam currently lives in Essex and enjoys visiting sites of historical and archaeological interest as often as possible as well as playing the violin.

ROSE SILVESTER is the Kids in Museums website moderator.
Rose works part time in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, providing technical support for the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Service. An Open University degree project led to her joining Bristol Magpies (now called the Friends of Bristol’s Museums, Galleries & Archives or FBMGA) and serving on the committees of this Friends group for several years in the 1980s. She was Newsletter Editor for the British Association of Friends of Museums (BAFM) 1994 - 1997 and Editor of BAFM’s annual journal, Museum Visitor for two years. She has recently completed another eight years on the FBMGA committee. All her museum activities are voluntary and unpaid and she is a firm believer in the mutual benefits of volunteering. Rose is also a member of the Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the Friends of Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury, and a supporter of Farms for City Children.

If you’re interested in volunteering for Kids in Museums, please email us at:

getintouch@kidsinmuseums.org.uk

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