Members Together: Wales

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

Tea and coffee available

Simon Stephens, Head of Publications and Events at the Museums Association, introduces our Members Together event.

Rachael Rogers, the Museums Association’s vice president, welcomes delegates to the event and gives an update on the work of the MA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Speakers TBC

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.