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| AdminHistory | In 1975 Gene Adams became the Art and Museum Education Advisory Teacher in the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Art Inspectorate attached to the ILEA Teachers' Centre at Elephant and Castle due to her previous teaching and museums experience. Her initial role was to develop new links in education between museums and ILEA education staff and schools. At first Adams developed activities with national museums and then began to develop links with the staff and curators at the historic houses owned by the Greater London Council (GLC). Adams also developed a series of leaflets giving advice to teachers wishing to take children on visits to London's museums and galleries, including 'museum charts' which listed information on all London museums with education facilities.
In 1978 she moved to the ILEA Centre for Learning Resources as the Museum Education Advisor under Inspector Leslie Ryder. The new post gave Adams access to the ILEA educational resources at the Centre including an art and craft collection, film and theatrical costumes which used to develop a series of educational activities in the GLC's historic houses. Adams also became also responsible for co-ordinating the in-service courses for ILEA teachers which were run by various museums in London and offered advice to museums who wished to develop educational services.
In the last years of ILEA, under the direction of the ILEA member overseeing cultural activities, Adams also sat as the non-voting educational advisor on the Advisory Committees of the Geffrye and Horniman Museums during their transfer to new executive bodies. She also produced a report examining how local schools had used museums and galleries in London |