１、Collaborative Educational Programs between the Fukuoka Art Museum and the Fukuoka City Zoological Garden

 

Sayaka JIMBO

Fukuoka Art Museum

 

This presentation will focus on the collaborative effort regarding an educational program between the Fukuoka Art Museum and the Fukuoka City Zoological Garden in Fukuoka, Japan. This 2013 initiative was undertaken to explore new ways of working together beyond the boundaries of the humanities and sciences. This presentation will introduce audiences to two main programs, discuss how they were developed, and reveal what we learned through the collaborative process.

The first program is ‘Zoo at the Museum’, a gallery-based exhibition at the Fukuoka Art Museum that integrates a range of animal representations from the museum’s collections and includes a stuffed elephant and horned owl from the zoo’s collection. Here, audiences are given the opportunity to make comparisons and connections between physical animals and their interpretation by different artists. The second program is “Animal Art Tour”, a lecture-workshop based event held at the zoo (in summer) and the museum (in autumn). This program offers audiences an opportunity to hear from a museum educator and a breeder from the zoo sharing their unique perspectives on various animals featured in the exhibition.