Amazing Spaces: Designing Great Exhibitions

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When: Sep 16, 2021 11:00 AM London
Topic: Amazing Spaces: Designing Great Exhibitions

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1100-1110 Welcome from the Chair
Simon Stephens, Head of Publications and Events, Museums Journal

1110-1140 What does home mean to you? Designing the Museum of the Home
Sonia Solicari, Director, Museum of the Home, and Adam Zombory-Moldovan, Director, ZMMA, share insights into the design process following its £18.1m redevelopment

1140-1200 Our Planet: using collections to address the climate crisis
How can design help make natural history collections relevant to audiences – especially considering the climate crisis and ecological emergency? Jan Freedman, freelance museum consultant, shares the design approach to the bold new natural history gallery he designed at The Box, Plymouth.

1200-1220 Open Wide: a human-centred approach to medical museums
Sue Mackay, Director of Collections & Programme, Thackray Museum, discusses how community curation – and a commitment to inclusion – helped shape the museum’s redesign

1220-1300 Q&A
With Sonia Solicari, Adam Zombory-Moldovan, Sue Mackay and Jan Freedman

1300-1345 Lunch

1345-1405 Different, together: Welcome to Manchester Jewish Museum
Alexandra Cropper, Curator, Manchester Jewish Museum, welcomes delegates back from lunch with a video tour of the new museum following its £6m redevelopment

1405-1425 Decolonising the museum
Grant MacKenzie, Director (Interim), David Livingstone Birthplace, shares how it has approached recontextualising the story of Livingstone’s journey from Blantyre to Africa

1425-1455 What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Experimentation and Provocation at the National Football Museum
Jon Sutton, Exhibitions Manager, National Football Museum, and Tim Ashmore, Graphics and Interpretation Producer, National Football Museum, share their experimental approach to designing temporary exhibitions

1455-1515 – Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place
Aleema Gray, Community History Curator, Museum of London Docklands, discusses how collaborative community collecting helped shape this temporary exhibition exploring the role food plays in Black entrepreneurship and identity in South East London

1515-1555 Q&A
With Grant MacKenzie, Jon Sutton, Tim Ashmore and Aleema Gray. Natalie Milor, Curator, David Livingstone Birthplace, also joins the discussion

1555-1600 Close

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