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Exploring how museums can become truly inclusive spaces and representational platforms, championing equality at every level.

Exploring how museums can create organisational change and ensure community engagement work is sustainable, embedded and equitable.

This event is aimed at students and people seeking to work in museums who want to find out more about their options.

How are museums using their collections in exciting, engaging and socially impactful ways?

Explore the latest approaches to visitor insight and share methods to connect with new and existing audiences.

Discover practical, creative and achievable ways that museums can generate sustainable income.

Our essential careers conference for professionals who are ready to take the next step.

Exploring how museums are engaging with underserved audiences and working with community interest groups in participatory and equitable ways.

This conference on exhibition design is for anyone involved in creating permanent or temporary displays and exhibition.

How is curation changing and what might tomorrow’s museum curators look like and do?

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.

In collaboration with Culture&, a joint UK and US symposium on how our museums are responding to racism and what needs to happen next.

This seminar explored the current state and future potential of museum learning and engagement ahead of the launch of the Learning and Engagement Manifesto.

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.

We gathered a panel to reimagine the future of museums at a time when the sector has never been more vulnerable. This discussion took place on 9 March 2023.

In this conversation we explore workforce wellbeing at an individual, organisational and sector level. This webinar took place on 9 February 2023.

Watch our hybrid Members Together: Northern Ireland meeting, which was held for MA members in Belfast and online on 27 June 2023.

Watch our hybrid Members Together: Scotland meeting, which was held for MA members in Glasgow and online on 2 March 2023.

Watch our hybrid Members Together: England meeting, which was held for MA members in Birmingham and online on 29 November 2022.

Watch our hybrid Members Together: Wales meeting, which was held for MA members in Cardiff and online on 27 September 2022.

The final panel discussion, covering two headings from the Learning and Engagement Manifesto: research and evaluation, and partnerships.

A panel discussion about three headers of our Learning and Engagement Manifesto: community participation, workforce and collections.

A panel discussion looking at what museums could and should be doing as part of their commitment towards climate justice.

A panel discussion about the first two headers of our Learning and Engagement Manifesto: cultural rights and cultural democracy, and social justice.

A panel discussion reflecting on the fallout of global events from the past year – and looking forward to what the future might hold in 2021 and beyond.

A panel discussion about some of the ethical ramifications of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.

A panel discussion organised by the Museums Association and Museum Detox about how individuals and museums can confront racism in the museum and heritage sector.

Sharon Heal, Director, Museums Association, chairs a panel discussion about how Covid-19 closures and regulations are impacting front-of-house staff and volunteers.

Sharon Heal, Director, Museums Association, chairs this Zoom panel discussion on what the future holds for civic museums.

Dhikshana Pering, Head of Engagement and Skills, Somerset House, and Board Member, Museums Association, chairs this panel discussion.

Catch up with this panel discussion about the importance of wellbeing in our workforce and how we can support this during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

Sharon Heal, Director, Museums Association, chairs a panel discussion exploring new ways of thinking, working and engaging with collections in a post Covid-19 world.

Watch this webinar about how museums can welcome back visitors when they are able to reopen.

Watch this panel discussion about the future of our workforce in light of the Covid-19 crisis.

The first in a series of webinars the Museums Association (MA) is running for its members in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

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.

It’s time to recognise that digital change in museums is about supporting people and not just mastering technology.

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?

What working examples can be shared to demonstrate how community engagement looks different in other countries, and how can we go from mission statement to practice?

A sustainable future needs sustainable museums, just as a sustainable future will be no place for unsustainable museums.