Coursebook

Welcome to the British Museum’s Annual Programme Coursebook

Since 2012 we have created an annual coursebook to sit alongside our International Training Programme (ITP). The aim of the coursebook is to give you all the background information that you’ll need for the Annual Programme, all in one place, and will sit alongside session guidelines for the ITP e-learning and an individual programme created for you for your onsite visit.

The coursebook includes the following:

• A brief history of the British Museum (BM) from its inception in 1753 through to today.

• 2022 and beyond will tell you where we are now at the Museum and share with you our future plans.

• The mission of the BM will tell you more about the Museum’s aims and objects – what we hope to achieve and how we do it.

• Museums in the UK will set the scene of the cultural sector in this country – how the sector is structured and how it is funded.

• Collections and non-collections departments will share the structure of the British Museum and our many and varied departments – many of which you will hear more about as part of the Annual Programme 2021.

• What’s new? Here we will tell you about our current temporary exhibitions at the Museum and highlight some of our recent acquisitions which have been added to our collection over the past year.

• British Museum Departmental Representatives will introduce you to the colleagues around the Museum who have helped us shape our e-learning programme and will welcome you when to come to the BM. You will spend time with our Departmental Representatives when you come to the UK where they will share their collections, projects and programmes with you.

• UK Partner Museum Representatives will introduce our colleagues from around the UK who will welcome you to their institutions in Belfast; Glasgow; Lincoln; Manchester; Newcastle; Nottingham and Norwich.

• And finally, the welcome to the British Museum e-learning programme will share more information on our digital learning plans for you from August to October 2021.

Your coursebook is located in Materials tab of this module located at the top of this screen.