On October 22, 2021 Troy Museum Kits Project's launch meeting took place at the Museum of Troy's Conference Room with the attendance of press members, ministry and museum attendants and project partners.

Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı'nın desteği ile gerçekleşen Troya Müze Kitleri Projesi'nin lansmanı, 22 Ekim 2021 tarihinde Troya Müzesi'nin Konferans Salonu'nda, basın mensupları, bakanlık ve müze görevlileri ve proje paydaşlarının katılımıyla gerçekleşmiştir. 

On 17-18 October 2021, 200 teachers received a 10-hours (5 hours theoretical, 5 hours applied) training in the Troy Museum Kits Project that was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. At the end of the two-day training teachers received their kits and the kits of their students’.  A public event was also organized in the Museum of Troy for the launch of our first Visitor’s Kit.

Sebla Kut moderated the session on ‘Role of Institutions and Capacity Building Activities for the Protection and Transfer of Cultural Heritage to Next Generations’, that was organized during the Bergama Theater Festival.

By the invitation of ICOM Turkey, Sebla Kut and Hüsne Nalbant, the co-founders of Komet, participated in the International Virtual Conference on Museums, organized by ICOM Pakistan and KUMID Turkey. They presented on ‘Rethinking the Museum Experience: The Museum Kit Project’ in the session series ‘Museum Education and E-Learning’, organized by ICOM Turkey and the MÜZEDER (Association of Museologs).

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Click here to watch our presentation (Starting from minute 1.55''). 

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Sebla Kut represented the Komet Culture and Art Projects in the Heritage Istanbul that took place in Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center in Istanbul. On June 24, she presented the Museum Kit Project at the ‘Heritage Talks’ session on ‘Use of Virtual Museum as an Educational Environment’ which was organized by Museums Directorate of Bursa Greater Municipality.

Sebla Kut and Hüsne Nalbant participated in the online symposium organized by the PETaL Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program and the Atatürk Faculty of Education, Marmara University. Their lecture to the graduate students of the Institute of Educational Sciences on ‘Museum Education and its Impact on Fostering Emphaty’ was followed by an applied session on the museum kits, and a feedback and Q&A session on the Museum Kit Project.

In the 7th session of the 2nd Troad Symposium held on 9-10-11 April 2021, a presentation titled 'An Innovative Approach in Making Meaning of the Museum: Troy Museum Museum Kit' was made under the moderation of the Head of Troy Excavation Prof. Dr. Rüstem Aslan, and with the participation of Troy Museum Director Rıdvan Gölcük, Archaeologist and Museum Instructor Hazal Fırat, and Komet Culture and Art Projects partner Cem Deniz Kut.

Sebla Kut participated in the online conference on ‘Use of Virtual Museum as an Educational Environment’ which was organized by the Museums Directorate of Bursa Greater Municipality with her talk titled ‘Is a Virtual Museum Tour a Museum Experience?’

Within the scope of ‘Communication with the Museums and Education’, an event organized by the ÖOYD (Pioneering Schools Directors Association), Sebla Kut organized and participated in the session on Museum Education Programs.

We participated in the sessions with teachers and specialists and discussed the transformation of museum education in the ‘New Normal’. The event was organized as part of the Museum Education Program organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education, and 150 teachers attended the program.

An online conference on Museum Education with the Museum Kit was organized in cooperation with the MMKD (Professional Association of Museology).

Komet, in cooperation with the District Directorate of National Education of Bergama, designed the project on ‘Museums and the Effective Utilization of Cultural Heritage in Education’, and realized the training sessions for teachers.

We took part in the ‘Museum Education for Teachers Program’ organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education. The program took place in Şanlıurfa with the participation of 200 teachers. 

The second kit of the Museum Kit Project by Komet was designed for the Pera Museum, with support of the Ministry of National Education. Together with the launch of the Pera Museum Museum Kit, its teacher training sessions were also realized in Istanbul with 54 teachers, on January 21-22.  

The first kit of the Museum Kit Project by Komet was designed for Topkapı Palace, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Following the teacher training sessions that took place on December, 14-15-21, 500 teachers in Istanbul were provided with Topkapı Palace Museum Kit. 10,500 students’ kits were also delivered to the 500 teachers who completed the program.

We took part in the ‘Museum Education for Teachers Program’ organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education. The program took place in Bodrum, on October 18-19, with the participation of 150 teachers from all around Turkey. 

Hüsne Nalbant delivered a speech on ‘Bringing the Cultural Institutions and Schools Together’ in the ‘Early Chilhood Development and Culture and Art Talk Series, organized by the IKSV (İstanbul Culture and Arts Foundation) on October,17.

We took part in the ‘Museum Education for Teachers Program’ organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education. The program took place in İstanbul with the participation of 200 teachers.

We took part in the ‘Museum Education for Teachers Program’ organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education. The program took place in Erzurum, on June 20-21 2019, with the participation of 200 teachers from all around Turkey. 

The pilot session of the ‘Museum Education for Teachers Program’ organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education was realized with the participation of 50  teachers in Ankara, on May 9 2019, at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations,. We took part in the program as area specialists together with the academics from Ankara University and Yıldız Technical University.

We took part in the ‘Museum Education for Teachers Workshop’ organized by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education in Ankara, together with other participants from universities.

We organized a workshop called ‘Another Museum Experience is Possible’ as part of the semestre break workshops of ÖRAV (Teachers Academy Foundation). We conducted a session on implementation of our Museum Kit Project with teachers of different subjects, including the class teachers and visual arts teachers. 

We came together with future teachers at Marmara University Institute of Educational Sciences and the Faculty of Education. We were impressed by their enthusiasm and interest in our Museum Kit Project.

We organized a workshop at F: Atölye in Adana and shared our Museum Kit Project with teachers there. We were pleased that the number of our ‘ambassadors’ in different cities of Turkey in addition to Istanbul are increasing by the day.

The pilot implementation of the Museum Kit Project was realized with the 5th graders at the Istanbul Secondary School. This meeting showed the effectiveness of the museum experience starting in classrooms under the guidance of teachers.

We made a presentation at the Teachers Network meeting of the Education Reform Initiative, ERG, the leading NGO in education in Turkey. ERG’s Teachers Network is an initiative that brings teachers together with their colleagues, people from different disciplines and various institutions. It aims the empowerment of the teachers through participation and collaboration. We were very pleased by the high reception of our Museum Kit Project. 

Within the scope of İKSV’s ‘Space for Culture Project’, we presented our Museum Kit Project to the participants from Gaziantep, Diyarbakır and İzmir, and discussed what we can do in different cities in Turkey.

We shared our Museum Kit Project for the first time in public in Budapest, in the training sessions at the ‘Europe in Perspective’ program designed under the leadership of Paul Collard, with museum staff, artists and teachers from 9 different European countries.