Caroline Parry, Author at Museums Association

In practice Digital

How to create effective e-newsletters

Communicating with audiences during Covid-19 shutdown

Feature Play

Play time

The museums that are using play to engage younger visitors

In practice Labels

Giving communities a voice

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

In practice Labels

Graphic interpretation for visual storytelling

Vagina Museum finds that humour can help break taboos

In practice Labels

Rethinking museum labels

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

In practice Interpretation

Engaging visitors through interpretation

Lifting the curatorial curtain at the Jewish Museum

Feature Archives

Staying alive

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

Analysis Diversity

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

In practice Sustainability

Creating greener museum toilets

From water consumption to toilet paper

In practice Access

Installing a Changing Places toilet in your museums

Providing access to visitors and their families

In practice Access

Core functions: good practice for museum toilets

Creating safe, accessible and functional spaces for all visitors

Feature

New horizons

Ten years ago there was an explosion of new and refurbished regional galleries in England. A decade on, how have these institutions adapted to harsher economic realities and changing priorities?