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Two weeks to go: Conference 2026

Join at the museum event of the year in Birmingham and online, 2-4 November.

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Socially engaged museums and a representative workforce. Turning values into action. We advocate for and support museums and everyone who works in and with them.

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Conference 2026: Museums Connecting Communities

2-4 November 2026

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham

Members Together: Scotland

2 December 2026

Canmore Room at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

Intelligent Futures: Understanding the Impact of AI

9 December 2026

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The guide | Benchmarking your governance

Keith Arrowsmith explains how your governance framework can support cognitive and cultural diversity 

Feature Black history

Building the museum before the building exists

Five years on from the Black British Museum/Museum X takeover edition of Museums Journal, the question is no longer whether a Black British Museum is needed. The question is what kinds of social relationships, infrastructures and experiments are required to build one

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Welsh Museums Festival celebrates 12th year

More than 60 venues taking part in a week-long programme of events, exhibitions and other activities

Museums Connecting Communities

Conference 2026

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2-4 November 2026

Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Restoring civic pride. Creating hope. Encouraging social change. Join us as we celebrate how museums are finding innovative ways to show up for their communities.

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Annual Reports

Our previous and future work and details of this year’s Annual General Meeting

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The state of pay | Tell us about salaries in your organisation

Take part in this year’s questionnaire to inform our research into pay in the sector

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Charity trustee opportunity | Members Support Fund

We are looking for two new members to join the existing committee, bringing an understanding of charitable giving

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Ableism and wellbeing

Our research and recommendations to improve the experience of disabled museum professionals

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Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund: 2026 grantees

We're pleased to announce nine new grants to develop and continue groundbreaking health and wellbeing programmes

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Museums Change Lives | Wales

Celebrating Welsh museums as places of joy and reflection, challenge and understanding

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