Forager Education

At Forager Education, we have a mission to innovate the education sector and provide professional curriculum expertise to cultural organizations searching for ways to better engage their collections in a classroom setting. We seek to build a cultural sector that has the skills and resources to promote the shared history housed within their collections. We were inspired by conversations with museum curators during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of losses in funding, staffing shortages, and general capacity issues, no one gave up. The passion for preserving and promoting unique histories shone through even during the hardest times. From those conversations, Forager Education was born. Our founder, Bryce Mathew Watts, an anthropologist and ethnobotanist, wanted to find a way to get involved in the recovery through collaboration and industry development opportunities. Partnering first with the BC Museums Association, Forager Education began work on developing The VR Voyage Classroom as an outlet for educational programming that museums across British Columbia were developing. Through the support of the Association and Futurpreneur Canada, Forager Education embarked on a year-long research and development journey to create The VR Voyage Classroom and the curriculum services offered to our partners. Now with The VR Voyage Classroom live and our team of educators in place, we are launching our next phase of programming. Working with a significant number of British Columbia’s cultural institutions, we are bringing together curriculum development programs with audience generation and monetization opportunities to build a stronger cultural sector through collaboration, funding connection, and digital support services. This unique business model was one of the reasons that Forager Education and founder Bryce Mathew Watts were selected as official Canadian delegates to the G20 YEA Summit in Milan, Italy in 2021.