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 […]
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Bookbox Making Workshop:
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 […]
Museum Photographic Workshop
Professional photographer Brian Wood will be offering a free one day workshop designed to get the best out of your camera within the museum environment..Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Monday 1 July, 10am – 4pm Brian will show you how to get the best pictures for marketing & advertising, websites and collections documentation. Please bring your camera […]
Museum Mentor needed..
Looking for some CPD opportunities, or wanting to ‘give back’ ? Many smaller museums, without professional museum staff need some ‘critical friend’ advice to support them through Accreditation. We are always looking for professionals with recent experience. Roman Alcester a fabulous small museum with significant collections, an active volunteer base and a good Trustee board […]
Retail .. matters – Training day free, 16th May
Retail Matters, the respected retail & training consultants for Heritage Sites & Museums are running a days training in Customer Service and Visual Merchandising on Thursday 16th May – Borough Museum & Art Gallery –Newcastle-under-Lyme – 10am – 4pm There are just 5 spare places open to people from outside Staffs. John Prescott always gives excellent advice, if […]
Making the Most of…Your Trustees (and more!)
This workshop will help you to recruit new trustees, allow you to reflect on what skills you already have to call upon and show you how to sustain, develop and nurture an effective board. Places are now available on Wednesday 8 May at Ludlow Library and Museum Resource Centre , with Hilary McGowan The workshop ensures you […]
Mounting Garments for Display
This archived webinar ‘Mounting Garments for Display’ and accompanying handout downloads from the US based Learning Times: Connecting to Collections seems a comprehensive reference resource for non-specialists. In the UK, even if you are not a member, do keep the Social History Curators Group website in your bookmarks bar… their firstBASE collections research site is […]
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 […]
MA members meeting
Members’ meetings are designed to keep members informed and give them more input in the policies and direction of the MA. 7th June at Thinktank – Birmingham, 1000 to 1600 and is open to all MA members in the West Midlands. It is free of charge for all Individual, Institutional and Corporate Members to attend. Click […]
1year training programme places
Natural History, Social History & Applied Art Training Opportunities. Heritage Lottery Fund ‘Skills for the Future’ The partnership offers a twelve month training programme commencing in May 2013 until April 2014. We are inviting applications for the following opportunities: One Natural History traineeship based at The Manchester Museum The University of Manchester One Natural History traineeship […]
