Are you ready for this? Challenging museums to be challenging! Some coffee time inspiration from Bridget McKenzie…nb pleased to note that fair number of things mentioned here are already being put forward through our MDO Marches Network programmes.. leading or what!
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Major leadership programme opp. for local leaders
A really exciting opportunity for emerging leaders in the regional museum and cultural sector is being offered, with ACE funding, by Black Country Living Museum. Just 12 places (so pretty competitive) are open on this, Clore-type, programme which will include intense learning retreats, one to one mentoring, masterclasses, overseas research trip and help in investing […]
The day Happy Museums came to town
After their two exhausting, enlightening and thought provoking open workshops, in Birmingham and Newcastle, the Happy Museums peopls have created a blog post about ‘how it all turned out all right’ – to use the phrase used in their research paper…Read it here and look out for the new round of funding to be launched […]
“Meet me at the museum…”
Museums are the equivalent of the town clock as a place of rendezvous, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery have gone one step further and ensured their sites are places where all kinds of conversations go on.. and they have got awards for it too… How does you museum help people ‘make connections’? http://creatingconversations.wordpress.com/about/ Since January […]
Campaign for Good Curatorship
That Nick Poole is at it again. Let us not be cowed: Museums need curators! Specialist knowledge is not a bad thing. Experience is not a bad thing. These are not the only things that make museums great, but we can, surely, articulate that it is ok for some people to have more knowledge than […]
No Victorians for junior school pupils
Most of you will have heard about the proposed changes to the schools History curriculum. History teachers, the Museums Association, the Arts Council and AIM have all responded – on one way or another. The museums community in general are worried that, if the proposed reforms go through, primary children will miss out on engaging […]
Whose History is it Anyway? Public History in Perspective Conference
This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, […]
Women, War and Work: myths, memories, and remembrance
The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network invite you to attend Women, War and Work: myths, memories, and remembrance. A conference to be held on Saturday 16th March 2013, at The National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire The contribution of women’s wartime work is now included in histories of World One and Two. Images and memories of nurses, […]
please fill in British Museum Sharing Expertise Survey
Over the last five years the British Museum has developed a series of programmes with a focus on sharing knowledge and expertise across the museum and gallery sector. The British Museum wants to make these programmes work better so they would love to hear your thoughts about the needs and priorities of your own organisation. […]
Collections Link:review of the year
As usual Collections Link have a lot of good sense things to say… read their review of the year and here are their 10 predictions … anywhere near your predictions? 10 Predictions for 2013 In spite of what you might think, we’re not clairvoyants here at Collections Trust, and we don’t have magical powers, so […]
