About this site

How to use My Learning

• Museums from the top navigation bar. The term museum covers museum, galleries, libraries and archives. This search will bring up in alphabetical order all the museums in Yorkshire that have learning journeys on My Learning. The information that is supplied about a museum will give information such as address, opening times and contact details, education programmes if applicable and more information about the museum specialism. This page will also have a link to learning journeys created by that museum. You can also search here for specific words and if a learning journey has that word in its title it will be highlighted, or if it is in the main body of text it will identify learning journeys with that word in.
• Geographical regions of Yorkshire from the area map on the left column of the Home Page. The regions include South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and The Humber. This search will bring up all the museums with learning journeys on My Learning in that region.
• Word searching for museums from the search box at the top right of the home page will highlight museum names.

Background to My Learning

The My Learning website is a joint initiative between the Renaissance Yorkshire Hub and MLA Yorkshire (Museums, Libraries and Archives in Yorkshire).

In 2003 research carried out by MLA Yorkshire with schools all over Yorkshire showed that one of the factors that would encourage more schools to visit museums was for teachers to be able to access online resources. Teachers indicated that they wanted flexible resources that could be used as stand alone teaching aids or as a planning tool to prepare for a visit. They also suggested that they wanted a ‘One stop shop’ for Yorkshire recognising the benefits of using local and regional museums regularly as well as the occasional ‘big long distance visit to a national’.

This research coincided with the Renaissance Yorkshire Hub deciding that e-learning should be central to the learning element of its 2004- 2006 plan. The Renaissance Yorkshire Hub consists of the five museum services of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York.

The website, launched in 2006 was conceived as a pre and post visit resource for teachers offering an integrated approach to learning with museums. Working in partnership with MLA Yorkshire My Learning has developed into a resource from museums, galleries, libraries and archives all over the Yorkshire and The Humber region.

The coordination and publishing of content for the website is led by: