Claudina Romero Mayorga, Education Officer at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (University of Reading) developed a virtual collaboration with the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. This is Claudina’s report about the collaboration.
Although the original idea was to travel to Cyprus to become familiar with the educational programme of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, the pandemic hindered this endeavour. The digital offer provided by the Ure Museum (University of Reading) and the BOCCF over that difficult time, however, allowed us to develop an online relationship, establishing this new arena to re-design the project.
The Ure Museum preserves objects from many ancient Mediterranean civilisations – including 100 artefacts from Cyprus and the BOCCF holds the Museum of George and Nefeli Pierides (donated by Clio and Solon Triantafyllides), covering a wide chronological arc of local archaeology. Both institutions rely on similar pedagogies: object-based learning, storytelling, theatre activities, etc., which encouraged us to develop projects to learn from each other.
While “Cyprus in 3D” at the Ure Museum focused on 3D printing a series of figurines of Kamelarga style (750-480 BC), the BOCCF was also experimenting with replicas made of limestone, plaster, clay, and filament. The new project proposed to deliver a series of online tutorials to our Cypriot colleagues to introduce the use of 3D technologies with the hope of creating a “new” joint online collection to promote the development of shared educational activities.
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