Bookbox Making Workshop: Care and Handling of paper/books with a practical workshop in building archive boxes for books. May 28th at Charles Hastings Education Centre, Charles Hastings Way, Worcestershire Royal Hospital, WR5 1DD An excellent free session (lunch included) for those working with books or paper. Session will be run by Birmingham Museums Trust’s Jane Thompson-Webb and […]
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So, what is @MuseoMix?
It’s that @mardixon again – another fabulous international idea brought to this country. For three days the participants co-create and test new ways of approaching exhibitions. A hands on, imagination flying, international mash-up of ideas…November 8, 9, 10 and open day on 11th at Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (Museum of Iron, Enginuity). “We bring together museum professionals, […]
new kids on the track..
Rail enthusiasts in Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond are gearing up for a treat in May, as award-winning Electric Railway Museum opens for the first time this year, allowing visitors of all ages to explore its rich collection of iconic transport. Electric Railway Museum’s Spring Gala Weekend will take place on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 Mayfrom 11am – 5 pm both days. Admission is FREE! […]
Leisure courses – sweating your assets?
More and more museums are beginning to offer leisure courses on site. This can be yet another creative way to interpret and attract new users to your collections or heritage skills, they can also be more wide ranging, encouraging the use of the site as an attractive venue for learning or sociability. Whether you are […]
Bid for Free Collections Care Support
Making Collections Count is part of the a West Midlands MDO programme, the Flying Collections Assistant is offering up to 3 days of free collections care support and advice to museums across the West Midlands. Museums can choose from a range of projects or suggest their own ideas. There is also a small amount of project support […]
Green Chedham’s wows the Apprentice’s advisor
Another deserved celebration for Chedham’s Yard, this time at Walton Hall with Nick Hewer the dour faced advisor on BBC’s the Apprentice. Follow the Museums:Going Green blog
Art Fund collect 2013 – deadline
£75,000 will be allocated to Art Fund Collect 2013. Now in its sixth and final year, this special funding initiative, organised in partnership with the Crafts Council, aims to recognise curatorial excellence and foster the ambition and scope of contemporary craft collections in the UK. from the Art Fund: The Crafts Council and the Art Fund feel […]
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 […]
Moving Targets: a Culture24 report
Culture24’s recently completed Moving Targets report seeks to unpack the complex and ever changing user needs within the cultural tourism information landscape. Get out your cultural tourist and marketing vocabulary lexicon for this ….don’t be afraid, it really is a very useful bit of research which can feed into your digital and exhibitions thinking… make sure there […]
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 […]
