Diversity

A new style of trustee?

Museums are seeking dynamic, entrepreneurial and imaginative trustees to help steer them through the coronavirus crisis and beyond

Manchester Museum makes moves towards repatriation and diversity

Initiatives show commitment to restitution and anti-racist education

Q&A | ‘The prospect of doing it alone lacked joy’

Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah on leadership, breaking barriers and job-sharing in a crisis

Culture& unveils new training programme

Scheme aims to address workforce diversity

Arts organisations awarded £1.27m to tackle racial inequality

Freelands Foundation says successful organisations are removing barriers to access through anti-racist education

Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah to share CEO role at Birmingham Museums Trust

Appointment marks an 'exciting new chapter' for the trust

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Transforming collections

Iniva is looking for a museum or gallery partner for its Future Collect project

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A more representative set of trustees will have a trickle-down effect on the workforce and provide a diversity of thought and life experience that will make for a better museum. Juliana Gilling reports

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Why has it taken a pandemic for museums to become more accessible?

The sector must remember disabled people when it reopens, says Samantha Bowen

Museum Detox launches hardship fund and crowdfunding appeal

Crowdfunding campaign is response to survey on how BAME workforce has been impacted by Covid-19

It’s time to move the needle on disabled representation

There are too few disabled staff in the sector, but some museums are embedding recruitment strategies that work

Iniva commissions first Future Collect artist

Programme designed to diversify public art collections