Members Together: Wales offers a brilliant opportunity to familiarise yourself with what is happening at the MA, from our work on climate justice, decolonisation, wellbeing and anti-racism to the funding opportunities we offer.
Find out how to put our guidance into practice in your museum and hear how to make the most of your membership benefits. It also offers the chance to hear updates from, and network with, your colleagues in Wales.
Getting our members together for interactive, lively discussions, key information and feedback is core to our membership offer and one of the many ways we highlight and celebrate our diverse membership. It ensures your voice is heard and that the MA reflects your work in our policy campaigns.
Join us at Wrexham Museum and a Football Museum for Wales, for an event that is open to all individual members, commercial members and anyone who works for an organisation that is an institutional member.
Please note that this is an in-person only event.
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1100-1330
Optional career conversations with Tamsin Russell – Sgyrsiau am yrfaoedd gyda Tamsin Russell (dewisol)
Tamsin Russell, Workforce Lead, the Museums Association, is available for informal career one-to-ones ahead of the event starting. To book a half-hour slot please email Tamsin@museumsassociation.org
Mae Tamsin Russell, Arweinydd y Gweithlu, Cymdeithas yr Amgueddfeydd, ar gael i gynnal sesiynau anffurfiol un-i-un cyn i’r digwyddiad ddechrau. I gadw slot hanner awr anfonwch neges ebost at Tamsin@museumsassociation.org
Speakers
Tamsin Russell
Workforce Development Lead, Museums Association
1300-1400
Registration and networking – Cofrestru a rhwydweithio
Tea and coffee available
Te a choffi ar gael
1400-1410
Introduction by chair – Cyflwyniad gan y cadeirydd
Esther Elin Roberts introduces our Members Together event.
Esther Elin Roberts yn cyflwyno ein digwyddiad Aelodau Ynghyd.
Speakers
Esther Elin Roberts
1410-1425
Welcome – Croeso
Rachael Rogers, the Museums Association’s vice president, welcomes delegates to the event and gives an update on the work of the MA.
Rachael Rogers, is-lywydd Cymdeithas yr Amgueddfeydd (MA), yn croesawu pawb i’r digwyddiad ac yn rhoi’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am waith yr MA.
Speakers
Rachael Rogers
Vice-president, Museums Association and Museums and Arts Manager, MonLife Heritage
1425-1500
Winning hearts and minds – Ennill calonnau a meddyliau
This session will explore our latest policy initiatives including work towards social justice and how we can make a strong case for the value of our museums to politicians, stakeholders and the public. The session will cover how we can put the recommendations from Empowering Collections into practice including using collections to explore issues of place and identity and working with communities to ensure that our collections are relevant and reflect society.
Bydd y sesiwn hon yn mynd i’r afael â chynlluniau polisi diweddaraf yr MA yn cynnwys gweithio i sicrhau cyfiawnder cymdeithasol a sut y gallwn ni gyflwyno achos cryf i wleidyddion, rhanddeiliaid a’r cyhoedd dros werth ein hamgueddfeydd. Bydd y sesiwn yn trafod sut y gallwn roi argymhellion Grymuso Casgliadau ar waith, yn cynnwys defnyddio casgliadau i archwilio materion yn ymwneud â lle a hunaniaeth, a chydweithio â chymunedau i sicrhau bod ein casgliadau’n berthnasol ac yn adlewyrchu’r gymdeithas.
Speakers
Sharon Heal
Director, Museums Association
1500-1530
Museums for Climate Justice – Amgueddfeydd dros Gyfiawnder Hinsawdd
Find out how our Museums for Climate Justice campaign can support museums in tackling the climate and ecological crisis and hear from Alice Briggs, Programme Manager for Tir Canol, about the landscape partnership in Mid Wales which delivers artist residency programmes and works on projects supporting climate action, coastal adaptation initiatives and nature recovery.
Cewch wybod sut y gall ymgyrch yr MA, Amgueddfeydd dros Gyfiawnder Hinsawdd, helpu amgueddfeydd i daclo argyfwng yr hinsawdd ac ecoleg. Yn ogystal, bydd Alice Briggs, Rheolwr y Rhaglen Tir Canol, yn sôn am y bartneriaeth yng Nghanolbarth Cymru sy’n darparu rhaglenni ar gyfer artistiaid preswyl ac yn gweithio ar brosiectau i hybu gweithredu ar yr hinsawdd, a chynlluniau i addasu’r arfordir ac adfer byd natur.
Speakers
India Divers
Policy and Ethics Lead, Museums Association
Alice Briggs
Programme Manager for Tir Canol and MA Rep
1530-1540
Break – Egwyl
1540-1610
A Vision for Culture and Sport in Wales: calls for evidence – Gweledigaeth ar gyfer diwylliant a chwaraeon yng Nghymru: galwad am dystiolaeth
Please join us as we want to hear your views to inform the development of our new Culture and Sport Strategy for Wales.
Ymunwch â ni gan ein bod am glywed eich barn er mwyn llywio’r gwaith o ddatblygu ein strategaeth ddiwylliant a chwaraeon newydd ar gyfer Cymru.
Speakers
Eleri Davies
Head of Culture and Sport Strategy Engagement, Welsh Government
Catrin Hughes
Head of Policy and Strategy, Culture, Welsh Government
1610-1625
MA Funding – Ariannu’r MA
The Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund will continue in 2027 with an updated focus on work that strengthens communities, using collections. Hear about applying to the Communities and Collections Fund; how the new phase of the fund has developed from the MA’s Empowering Collections research; and how this relates to the other funds the MA runs.
Bydd Cronfa Cymunedau a Chasgliadau Esmée Fairbairn yn parhau yn 2027 gan ganolbwyntio o’r newydd ar waith sy’n cryfhau cymunedau, gan ddefnyddio casgliadau. Cewch glywed sut i ymgeisio i’r Gronfa Cymunedau a Chasgliadau; sut y datblygwyd y cam newydd hwn o waith ymchwil yr MA, Grymuso Casgliadau; a’r cysylltiad â’r cronfeydd eraill y mae’r MA yn eu rhedeg.
Speakers
Sally Colvin
Head of Policy and Programmes, Museums Association
1625-1640
Workforce inclusion and wellbeing – Cynhwysiant a llesiant yn y gweithlu
We are committed to a supporting the workforce through our work around inclusion and wellbeing. In this session we hear about the most recently published report into Wellbeing and Ableism and what the sector, leaders and co-workers can do to create an inclusive and non-ableist culture.
Mae Cymdeithas yr Amgueddfeydd yn ymroi i gefnogi’r gweithlu drwy ein gwaith ym meysydd cynhwysiant a llesiant. Yn y sesiwn hon, cawn glywed am yr adroddiad diweddaraf a gyhoeddwyd ar Lesiant ac Ableddiaeth a’r hyn y gall y sector, arweinwyr a chydweithwyr ei wneud i greu diwylliant cynhwysol ac an-ableddol.
Speakers
Tamsin Russell
Workforce Development Lead, Museums Association
1640-1710
The new Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum – Amgueddfa Bêl-droed newydd Cymru ac Amgueddfa Wrecsam
Hear how the new museum was developed, including the team’s approach to community engagement and the way that learning has been embedded across the gallery spaces.
Cewch glywed sut y datblygwyd yr amgueddfa newydd, yn cynnwys y ffordd y bu’r tîm yn ymgysylltu â’r gymuned a sut y cafodd dysgu ei ymgorffori yn y gwahanol orielau.
1710-1800
Networking and tour of the venue – Rhwydweithio a thaith dywys
An exclusive tour of the new Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum led by the museum team. Delegates will also get the chance to network over drinks and nibbles.
Taith dywys arbennig drwy Amgueddfa Bêl-droed Cymru ac Amgueddfa Wrecsam o dan arweiniad tîm yr amgueddfeydd. Bydd cyfle i rwydweithio dros ddiodydd a nibls hefyd.
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