Opinion
Post-Great Transition: the museum of 2030
According to an old Tibetan saying: “If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment.” This captures our efforts at the NWFED (formerly the North West Federation of Museums and Art Galleries) to get our hundreds of members prepared for a dramatically changed future. The saying works in …
Letters
You can close our museums but you can’t take our dreams I am an out-of-work museum professional, writing an open letter to ask the government for more understanding for people in my situation. My maternity cover contract could not have ended at a worse time – a few months after the election last year. Since …
Are museums doing enough to address LGBT history?
The question of whether museums are doing enough to address Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) audiences has been debated in Museums Journal before (see link below). It was previously suggested that few museums or galleries had addressed the need to collect, frame and interpret the lives of LGBT people, and that few institutions had …
Letters
The legacy of a language Bannaghtyn. (Greetings.) You can’t tell from this written communication that I retain a Lancashire accent and occasionally use dialect phrases picked up from the county of my birth. My schoolteachers would be ashamed of me – because they did their best to stop me “talking common”. I am pleased they …
Take advantage of the Chinese museum Zeitgeist or miss out
I have just returned from a British Council-sponsored visit of Chinese museums with a group of colleagues from the UK. It was a trip of a lifetime and left me reeling from the number and nature of new experiences – all of them positive. The 21st century is China’s century and the major advances in …