Opinion
Reinvigorating our regional collections
Philippa Charles is the director of the Garfield Weston Foundation
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 …
Mendoza Review one year on
Last November, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) published the Mendoza Review: An Independent Review of Museums in England. Days later, I went to Manchester to talk about the review and the sector’s “strategies for success” at the Museums Association (MA) Conference. It was a pleasure to hear from people in the …