Community
Our Community Learning team works to build meaningful and engaging relationships with local communities in the New Forest and the surrounding counties.
We aim to make the National Motor Museum a hub for all people in our surrounding communities. We encourage cross-cultural exchange to widen the reach of our collections and remove barriers to participation.
Our relationships with community partners allow us to celebrate the story of motoring through a colourful lens, to put the people who matter in the driving seat and to embrace the diversity of a shared societal journey.
Motopia? | Laboratory
This collaborative one month living installation featured a variety of different workshops, each led by a professional artist, poet or architect, exploring the many ways in which street furniture and road signs have impacted our lives.
Graffiti road signs, mural skylines, still life drawing, sensory sign making, road rhythm rhyming poems, DIY magazine making, memory map making, creative journey prose and collages for personal journey signage. These were all created by people within the community and put on public display forming the core of what became a continually evolving art exhibition that was open all day, all week and free of charge.
Sound and Emotion
What would happen if you took a black and white film that was recorded without sound, one that featured a Land Speed legend, and passed it to a group of 10 year olds with access to a Foley sound stage?
We found out.
With Foley Artist Louise Brown and Sound Engineer Rick Blything at the controls, students from Redbridge primary School were handed the keys to the soundscape sweet box and encouraged to use their imaginations to bring life to a long silent film.Â
Everything from vegetables, old bicycle pumps, egg whisks and brass pots were used in this recording, but what you hear gives none of that away.
A Caravan for the Community
A pretty grand title for what is a very humble vehicle, but what appears small in stature is mighty in reach.
Our Sprite 400 is a true leveller in the world of motoring, you just cannot help but love it. This caravan draws people toward it, they want to see inside, to remember a place, a moment, a loved one. To recall traffic jams in May, hot holidays in August, or perhaps a quiet moment with a cup of tea away from the crowds.
This caravan is being renovated with help of the community for the use of the community. It will visit cities, villages, homes and parkland, and it will bring with it conversation and joy.
Follow us on Instagram as we transform the vehicle and the conversation around transport. Petrol heads are welcome, but so too are knit bombers, heritage heroes, craft lovers or anybody else.
This may be our Sprite 400 but it is your "Chatty Caravan".
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