Opinion
How national reviews benefit local museums
National Museums Scotland is midway through its third national strategy, Across Scotland: 2016-2020. This focuses on sharing Scotland’s collections, engaging and inspiring people, and strengthening skills and expertise nationally. Our national programmes began in 2006, and since then there has been a desire from the Scottish museum sector for us to share collections expertise …
The conversation
Should the sector change its view on the rationalisation of archaeological collections?
My career was shaped by an apprenticeship
Despite my love for learning, I never saw myself as a museum educator. But in 2015, I decided that if I had to work for a living, then I was going to pursue a job doing something I love. My number-one love is art, and I became determined to find a role in the creative …
Challenging inequality via active language
In a forthcoming publication on inclusion in the museum sector, I have mediated on the language we use when pursing equality, diversity and inclusion, by deconstructing those three words and placing them within the larger context of the conversations in which they are used. Mostly, this means looking to activism and how it affects policy …
