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Caroline Parry

Caroline Parry

freelance journalist

The gift that keeps on giving

It is vitally important to protect one of the sector’s most prized assets – the army of volunteers helping bring museums to life

Focus | Running virtual events

Venues are pivoting from being event organisers to broadcasters

The power of virtual networks

Networking doesn't have to stop during the coronavirus lockdown

How to create effective e-newsletters

Communicating with audiences during Covid-19 shutdown

Play time

The museums that are using play to engage younger visitors

Giving communities a voice

The Museum of Transology allows people to choose how they reflect their own experiences

Graphic interpretation for visual storytelling

Vagina Museum finds that humour can help break taboos

Rethinking museum labels

Changes in attitudes are prompting many museums to reconsider tone, format and role

Engaging visitors through interpretation

Lifting the curatorial curtain at the Jewish Museum

Staying alive

Company archives are a rich source of social history, but their existence is threatened when a business fails or is taken over

Slow progress in increasing diversity of charity trustees

Museums and galleries are among the charities that are trying to diversify their trustees in order to better reflect the communities that they serve

Creating greener museum toilets

From water consumption to toilet paper