Communities

Case study | Programming with the community

Heba Abd el Gawad shares lessons from a community takeover of Horniman

Cornish communities invited to shape museum redevelopment

Online and in-person consultation launched to plan the future of Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery

Case study | Addressing missing narratives through public programming

Katherine Green shares community collaboration for Music is Black exhibition at the V&A East

‘Power has shifted’: Northern Ireland’s community-led museums

A growing number of heritage projects are allowing local people to explore and share their own stories rather than having others speak for them. By Simon Stephens

Communities in north Wales to get better access to national collections

Amgueddfa Cymru and Wrexham University sign Memorandum of Understanding to increase access

Community engagement initiatives recognised at sector awards

Birmingham Museums Citizens’ Jury and Horniman’s All Eyes on Her among the winners

Inclusivity drive for museums in South-West England

Connected for Change project led by Museum Development South West

Quay to success | Poole Museum, Poole, Dorset

These restored historic galleries take in a modern twist

Q&A | ‘We want to avoid the static, glass-case model and create a place that excites curiosity’

Crispin Kelly, the chief executive of Baylight Properties, tells us about a flagship new cultural development on Ipswich Town’s waterfront, Clay 1A

Radical Museums | S3E2: E-J Scott

Simon Stephens travels to south London to interview E-J Scott, founder of the Museum of Transology

Radical Museums | S3E1: William Mitchell

Sharon Heal meets William Mitchell, project director for the Action for Community Transformation (ACT) Initiative in Belfast

Powell-Cotton Museum seeks community input in redisplay of Zulu collections

A museum-wide reinterpretation project is currently underway at the Kent institution