Announcing this year’s cohort
The Anti-racist Museums Programme takes an annual cohort of senior museum leaders through a reflective programme of embodied change, to support them to develop anti-racist practice in their organisations.
It presents an opportunity to create meaningful change in the UK museum sector. It is our hope that the Anti-racist Museums Programme will create a thriving network of museums and leaders that are committed to personal and organisational change; collaboration and peer learning; and being at the forefront of anti-racist practice in UK museums.
The Anti-racist Museums Programme is part of the MA’s long-term commitment to dismantling racism in UK museums and we work in partnership with TalkListenCreate. Each year we invite applications from museums to create a cohort of 20-30 leaders representing 5-6 museums.
Learning from our experience, we adapt the programme each year and develop our long-term approach to evaluating the impact of the programme. This has led to a deliberate focus on positionality within the programme, for example, acknowledging the additional labour in participation for global majority leaders. You can now read our evaluation from the first two years of the programme.
We are delighted to announce the five museums that form the 2026 cohort of the Anti-racist Museums Programme:
- Bradford District Museums and Galleries
- Freud Museum London
- Glasgow Life Museums
- Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery
- Museum of the Home
“I am delighted that we are able to run this programme again and support successful applicants on their anti-racist journey. We have worked with sector experts to design a programme that is thoughtful and thought-provoking and we are looking forward to working with a new cohort of museums that are determined to become anti-racist organisations.”
Sharon Heal, director, Museums Association
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For more information about the programme, please contact Sally Colvin, head of policy and programmes, via sally@museumsassociation.org.