GLAM Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums - 'Find your Wings'
The GLAM sector is open to people of all abilities, all ages, all interests. Galleries, libraries, archives and museums are stimulating, welcoming, and accessible as therapy spaces. The environment encourages exploration, and hands-on-learning. Participants choose their own interest areas and ways of engaging actively. Adam and Russell below, choose to pat a baby T-Rex. The experience evokes imaginative conversations and sharing ideas. The sensations are new and encourage our creative thinking as we play and move out or our comfort zone. Image 1: Russell and Adam pat a baby T-Rex by seamusmccauley is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . Libraries can stimulate storytelling and evoke imagination as we find our wings to read and write. We can grow by thinking about new concepts and ideas. We enter new time periods, by reading about history, the present and the future. We encounter diverse cultural knowledge and traditions through reading and listening to stories. ...