Catch up on the full recordings of our one-day conferences, Members Together meetings and more
One-day conferences and other webinars
Open Minds: Understanding Copyright in Museums
Examining what our changing digital and legal landscape means for the sector and the way we approach copyright.
Helping Hands: Harnessing the Power of Volunteers
Whatever your museum's approach to volunteering, take this opportunity to radically rethink how volunteers can contribute and what you can offer them.
Empowering Growth: Sustainable Fundraising Strategies
Exploring how years of austerity, Covid and rising costs have impacted the fundraising landscape, and how museums can face the future with confidence.
All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums
Our annual online conference exploring how museums can become anti-ableist in everything that they do.
Moving on Up 2025: Making an Impact with your Career
Moving on Up 2025 gave attendees a motivation boost and helped identify areas for progress, develop networks and discover how to demonstrate impact in the sector.
The Future of Museums: School Programmes
Looking at the current landscape for school programmes, and exploring how museums might adapt them into the future.
Take Care: Putting Collections at the Heart of Climate Change Work
Exploring effective and innovative ways that collections might be used to educate audiences and engage them as active citizens.
Shout Out: Successful Marketing, PR and Social Media Strategies
Through panel discussions, practical talks and case studies, delegates hear how museums big and small can raise their profile in a crowded marketplace.
Go Your Own Way: Successful Freelancing in Museums
Whether you are entirely self-employed or balance freelance work alongside in-house roles, this is an essential event to support your journey.
Money Talks: Income Generation for Museums
Discover practical, creative and achievable ways that museums can generate sustainable income.
Future of Museums: Engaging Volunteers
This event brought together practitioners, academics and researchers to radically rethink how volunteers can contribute to the sector.
Reach Out: Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums
Practical advice and case studies that demonstrate how museums can build relationships with underserved audiences such as teenagers and young adults.
Breaking Barriers: Radical Curatorial Engagement
With the growth in participatory practice and the drive to tell wider and more inclusive stories with our collections, this event explores how the role of the curator is evolving.
Future of Museums: Disposal
Exploring how museums can have a positive and proactive attitude towards ethical disposal of collections.
Come Together: Building Sustainable Partnerships
Exploring how museums can create organisational change and ensure community engagement work is sustainable, embedded and equitable.
Future of Museums: Collections
How are museums using their collections in exciting, engaging and socially impactful ways?
Getting to Know You: Understanding Museum Audiences
Explore the latest approaches to visitor insight and share methods to connect with new and existing audiences.
All Together Now: Embedding Community Participation
Exploring how museums are engaging with underserved audiences and working with community interest groups in participatory and equitable ways.
Amazing Spaces: Designing Great Exhibitions
This conference on exhibition design is for anyone involved in creating permanent or temporary displays and exhibition.
Future of Museums: Curation
How is curation changing and what might tomorrow’s museum curators look like and do?
Digital Futures: Embracing New Strategies
Exploring how the Covid pandemic has changed our understanding of digital engagement and forced museums to think more creatively about how to reach and connect with different audiences.
Members Together
Members Together Online: Communicating Climate Justice
Museums big and small are actively engaging with climate justice across their work – how can we share this work with audiences? This meeting took place on 3 March 2026.
Members Together Online: Launch of the Code of Ethics
At the launch of the updated Code of Ethics, members explore the code in more detail and discuss how it can be applied in practice. This meeting took place on 14 January 2026.
Members Together Online: Wellbeing
Chaired by Tamsin Russell, the MA’s workforce development lead, this online event explores our wellbeing campaign and how it can support you and your work. The event took place on 11 September 2025.
Members Together Online: Fostering Inclusivity and Challenging Racism
This interactive workshop delves into the vital role museums play in addressing racism and Islamophobia. This event took place on 5 June 2025.
Members Together Online: Climate Justice
Our panel answer your questions and share their views on how we can make the sector more sustainable and tackle the climate and ecological crisis. This event took place on 27 February 2025.
Museum Conversations
Advocating for your museum
In these challenging times when decision makers are having to make difficult choices to balance budgets, it’s more important than ever to advocate for the great work that your museum is doing. This discussion took place on 20 September 2023.
A Meeting Place webinars with the British Council and ICOM
Decolonisation: moving towards a more holistic perspective and relational approach
As the conversation has expanded to consider how museums reflect the voices and experiences of a diverse range of audiences and communities, approaches have become less transactional.
Leading digital at a time of uncertainty
It’s time to recognise that digital change in museums is about supporting people and not just mastering technology.
Time for change: tackling underrepresentation
Championing equality and inclusion is a step towards challenging current underrepresentation and bringing about positive change, but is this radical enough to create a culture shift and change mindsets?
