Luostarinmäki is the only continuous district of wooden houses that survived the fire of 1827 in Turku. These houses are over 200 years old and still standing in their original building sites. The museum tells the story of pre-industrial urban craftsmanship. The Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum was opened to the public on 29th June 1940. The museum grounds consist of 14 courtyards and their buildings with approximately 80 furnished interiors.Turku Museum Centre actively develops its museums to better and update the customer experience. Luostarinmäki development project 2018-2021 strives to follow the vision and idea behind the Museum Centre of Turku: provide various ways of experiencing Turku and find new ways of being a museum. Luostarinmäki is going through a renewal of it's concept. The project endeavors to find new innovation, trends and collegial support from the international museum field.Project will make a job shadowing period in one of the Great Britain's most popular museum destinations, Beamish Museum near Stanley. Beamish Museum is an open air museum telling the story of life in North East England during the 1820s, 1900s & 1940s. Because of its long history and experience, popularity and similar approach, Beamish Museum is a great learning platform for the Luostarimäki project. Beamish Museum also has a large scale development project in process 2017-2021 that is of great interest for the Luostarinmäki team. Open air museums in Great Britain are known for their progressive work with volunteers and stakeholders as well as engaging visitors and these are fields that coincide with Luostarinmäki's development strategies.Participants are museum specialists in their own fields which include museum pedagogy, cultural heritage, collections, conservation, customer services and museum development. Participants are members of the Luostarinmäki development team and a responsible for their own special fields. Participants will perform the job shadowing period in two parts that include studying the target as a group during one day and focusing on ones specialty individually during two days. This method gives possibility to analyze the target as a group with different viewpoints offering larger perspective. It also functions as an educational tool deepening the participants knowledge of their special fields and encourages to build lasting relationships with English colleagues.Projects aims are to support individual learning, increase competence of the organization and find new ways to develop Luostarinmäki museum. International networking supports collaboration and exchange of knowledge between open air museums at large. All these aspects influence directly in the high-quality customer experience that Luostarinmäki strives to offer and develop further in the future.

Museums as multidisciplinary learning environments for adult visitorsWe are developing new ways of being a museum.We want to provide knowledge and experiences that correspond to today´s varied needs. Together with our audiences we want to create and find new and innovative contents with the aim of being more relevant and important for different target groupsProfessional development.The museum education is often the unit that shakes up and wakes up the museum and brings new ways of looking at the past or the present. We promote equality and diversity and we strive towards being an inclusive museum. With the Job Shadowing development project, we want to create connections, get peer support and find innovative views and development trends, so that we will be able to better serve our audiences in the changing society.The Museum Education team at Museum Centre of Turku.The Job shadowing group of the Museum Education team consists of highly educated museum professionals with good language skills. Currently we have 13 experts, such as art historians, a cultural historian, an archaeologist, ethnologists, a community pedagogue, art instructors, art educator and museum educators in the team. The members of the team will get acquainted with the chosen museums and follow their work. They will have the opportunity to discuss and learn from the colleagues in other museums as well as work side by side with them to follow their daily routines and processes. The members of the team will keep a diary based on questions made before the visit. The insights and experiences will be shared and evaluated during and after the Job Shadowing time. The purpose of this is to get all the different views, customs and benefits for the use of the whole team. Concrete effects and outcomes:The team will gain knowledge on: -How to reach adult groups-How to work with adult groups-How to get the benefits and good ideas implemented in the activities and strategies-How to get the organization to commit to the things learned-How to resource and prioritize the work-How to evaluate and further develop the workThe long-term benefits and goals of the project.The museums of the Museum Centre of Turku are relevant and interesting places, that you want to visit again and each time you find new angles or get fresh insights. The museum education is participating, the contents are made in collaboration with the audiences and different target groups. The museum does not only operate inside its own walls, it will reach out to the community.

<< Background >>Libraries in the regions of Southwest Finland and Satakunta had a need to monitor the development of other countries, particularly in three broad topical issues: guiding citizens' digitalisations,promoting social and cultural dialogue, and promoting and maintaining literacy.The libraries in the region wanted to network internationally as well as have experiences of other libraries to share in networks locally.<< Objectives >>We wanted to learn how libraries reach different target groups and work as multicultural and democratic places. Libraries of the area wished to have concrete tips to co-operate with different organizations and customers as well as how to develop the marketing of the library.<< Implementation >>Four librarians of he project consortium had a mobility periods in different libraries in Europe.<< Results >>Mobility gave us plenty of new ideas and we try to figure out how to have those ideas to action in our libraries. Experiences will be shared to all libraries in the area.

The youth council exchange was implemented in 22.-28.9.2017 in Sindelfingen, Germany. 11 members from Turku youth council and 19 members from Sindelfingen youth council took part in the youth exchange. In addition to that 4 youth workers from both countries also took part in the project. According to the initial plan there was supposed to be two different youth exchanges. One in Germany and another one in Finland but the project got funding for one youth exchange. The project idea was developed by two young person from Germany and Finland while they met each other in Council of Europe. The main objective of the project were to learn about the work of both youth councils, learn each others good practices and cultural exchanges between Finland and Germany. In order to achieve the objectives the youth exchange included workshops, group work, prsentations of both youth council's work and study visits. This project provided the youth councils a chance to exchange their practices and to learn from one another. The project provides a great arena for young people to have in dialogue on youth participation it´s importance in todays life.

The KARMA-project (Greece, Macedonia and Finland) have been formed by young individuals who were looking for making an educational video where different sketches view common day situations where stereotyping, predjudism and racism are illustrated. The project is planned and completed by a youth team consisting Finnish, Macedonian and Greece youngsters. A group of young adults that in different way are inhibited in their socialization-process and victims of the concepts focused in the project. The purpose of the project is to find common grounds to stand on when it comes to elucidate the concepts of agenda. Trough social interaction in workshop-forums they will form constructive discussions about experiences and problem solving. The methods used in the project is informal dialogue and diversity exercises to lift the participants’ level of awareness. The benefits among the youth will be shown within lifelong learning with an elevated lift of courage. They will gain knowledge to notice the society and tools for dialogues with others.