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This webpage describes the goals and background of a new program for older adults launched in February 2022 by the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University. Talking Memory is designed to enhance older adult audiences’ engagement with the museum, stimulate them to recall their own narratives and create new memories, and promote social exchange in the public space of the museum.  It involves a series of sequential programs during the summer of 2022 that comprise gallery talks, coffee discussions, and artmaking related to the collections discussed.  The Ashmolean sees older adults an important audience and the new program is intended to foster new connections between audience members, museums staff, and museum collections while fostering increased wellbeing.

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