Bringing Museums to Schools Project

 

"BRINGING MUSEUMS TO SCHOOLS PROJECT"

SMA Negeri 1 Purwosari - TLBBH Foundation

(To achieve SDG 4) 

A year ago I was trying to do SDG4 at my school by "Bringing museums to schools Project". I was supported by TLBBH Foundation and also museums in UK gave me the permission to use their photos in my Museum Project.

At that time I was planning to hold it for 13 months from December 2019 to December 2020, but it was only 3 months: December, January and February 2020. Then it stopped because of some reasons, one of the reason was because of Covid 19. The school was closed!.

I was full of spirit at that time, I wanted to achieve SDG4. I wanted to make my students have a lot of information about museums in other countries and also museum in my country. I have contacted some museums in other countries to get permissions to display their photos in my project. I also came to visit museums in my country to get the photos to display. I used my own money to buy the things that I needed in making or holding that project even I have spent my money to go to Museum of The First President of Indonesia in Blitar and stayed for a night there.

The museums were:

a. Museum of London (December 2019) 

b. Museum of London Docklands ( December 2019)

c. Mpu Purwa Museum in Malang, East Java ( January 2020)

d. Ganesha Museum in Malang, East Java ( January 2020)

e. Natural History Museum in London ( February 2020)

f. Sukarno Museum in Blitar, East Java ( March 2020....still planning) the school was closed

Reflection:

I found that principal, teachers and students were more interested in the display racks than seeing and reading the photos. They wanted to have the display racks to do their activities. Actually they had ideas to do like what I was doing but the problems were on the fund. They did not have the ability or were no brave to sacrifice to do it.  I used my own money and every month had to spent for displaying photos and also bought the display racks for the first month.

It seemed that all person at my school had different perspectives in museum project, That's why I did not get the optimal response from the school. Many heads must be many opinions.  Actually the power of principal had the powerful decision. I got the permission to do museum project only permission, still need optimal support from the powerful person at my school. I was so disappointed because only 2 or 3 teachers of 70 teachers that used my museum project for teaching. I found that Changing the mindset of teachers is more difficult than changing the mindset of students. 

Then how to make Indonesia achieve SDG4 if we do not hand in hand to improve the quality education? If there are still many different opinions about something that someone is doing then some persons still focus on the selfishness then we have to stuck at the place where we stand forever while other countries are running to achieve SDGs. 

Due to Covid 19, maybe I have to learn how to make virtual museum project so that the students can visit it from their homes. What I have to think is that the virtual museum must be like online games, I think it will be more interesting than the displayed photos. Who can teach me to do it? I still have some homework I have to do ........

In December - Photos from Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands	Sabil was helping me to display the photos. There were about 120 photos that displayed
Naufal was helping me to put the photos on the display racks	I asked some students to arrange the photos again when they found the photos almost fell from the display racks.
I was so happy when I found my students visited my museum project	To make them visit the museum project, as the teacher I forced them to visit it
The students that visited my project were the students in the classes I taught	They wanted to visit because I gave them assignment that they had to do by using the photos in the museum project
When they went home they could spend a while to visit the museum project	Sometimes I helped them by explaining the photos
I had to move the display rack in order to be safe. It seemed that students and teachers did not like the display racks was put there because they felt that the racks disturbed their way to walk	The second month of exhibition  The photos of Mpu Purwa Museum and Ganesha Museum

Every morning I found my museum project in this condition. I myself had to put all photos one by one and put them again on the display racks Some said that the wind and the rain blew them but my students said that there may be something else.

I moved the museum project to other side in order to be safe and wished that students were curious to see, and read them but they just passed the museum project without being curious. How to make students, teachers curious ? Or maybe my museum project was not interesting for them.