Greenwich Foundation
Greenwich, Londonion
The Greenwich Foundation, which cares for the former Royal Naval College, is addressing the challenge of involving the community, especially children of school age, in understanding more about the architectural heritage of the Wren masterpiece, the people who built it and inhabited it, their predecessors in the Tudor Palace, and more widely the landscape and built heritage of the whole World Heritage Site. The relationship of the World Heritage Site to its historic surroundings and the history of areas such as Deptford and the Isle of Dogs, and more recently the Greenwich peninsula, are bound in with the Old Royal Naval College. Telling the whole story in one helps to explain the relevance of this high status site to the people who live around it today. As well as reaching out from architectural history and archaeology to construction techniques, engineering, earth sciences and environmental studies, the exploratory approach involves people in the creation of the exhibits: as a visitor you are an interactive part of the exhibition. It is a radical new approach for a site of such architectural quality to be combining a conventional visitor centre with a varied and lively educational experience. UK
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