Unwrapping the Past
Black Country Living Museum Trust was awarded a Designation Development Fund grant to improve its packaging and advertising collection, spanning the late 1800s-1950s. Hear from members of the Collections Team about the collection, their research and the digitalisation of c. 3000 objects.
To book a free ticket please email development@bclm.com directly.
Unwrapping the Past
Wednesday 17 August, 5.30pm-7pm
Black Country Living Museum, DY1 4SQ
Future of Museums: Collections
Three years on from the publication of the Museums Association’s (MA) Empowering Collections report, how are museums using their collections in exciting, engaging and socially impactful ways? What new approaches to collections care, interpretation and display are emerging – and what trends might be on the horizon.
From the climate crisis to anti-racism work, decolonisation to co-production, this event from the MA explores how museums’ collection work continues to evolve and have a positive impact on people and places.
More information and booking for Future of Museums: Collections
Future of Museums: Collections
Thursday 22 September, 11am-4pm
Online
Heritage Volunteering Group (HVG) West Midlands
The next HVG West Midlands meeting will be held in person at 2pm, kindly hosted by the West Midlands Police Museum, please email Becky Benson if you plan to attend.
The regional networking group covering Shropshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Black Country, Birmingham and Telford and Wrekin. The group is for anyone who works with volunteers in the heritage sector in the West Midlands. It meets quarterly to problem solve together, share best practice and learn from each other.
West Midlands Police Museum, Steelhouse Lane Birmingham B4 6BJ
Dialect & Heritage Project: Oral History Workshop
Are you interested in interviewing people and recording their voices for posterity; for heritage or community projects?
The Dialect and Heritage Project has a number of opportunities for volunteers to conduct interviews that could become part of the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture. This training session is for anyone who might like to take part and develop valuable skills that will enhance projects across the West Midlands.
This self-contained course, organised jointly by the Heritage Lottery Funded Dialect and Heritage Project and Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings aims to be an informal and practical introduction to oral history interviewing.
This training course covers the following areas:
- The Dialect and Heritage Project Oral Histories: An introduction
- What is oral history?
- Who to interview, aims and objectives, question approaches
- Choosing your recording equipment
- The interview: dos and don’ts
- Practice interview session and evaluation
- Documentation: summarising, transcription, copyright, archiving
Collections Trust Conference 2022 – Rethinking Cataloguing
At Collections Trust they believe that cataloguing should be an open ended, inclusive, and flexible activity. But how can we make this a reality?
The conference theme is Rethinking Cataloguing. The excellent line-up of speakers will:
- consider ethical principles for cataloguing
- discuss the importance of transparency and recording past practice
- explore practical challenges and (hopefully) solutions for increasing access to collections information and managing contributions from different sources
Find out more about the Collections Trust Conference
Collections Trust Conference 2022 – Rethinking Cataloguing
Thursday 6 October, 9.30am-5pm
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield S1 2PP
MA Conference 2022 – day 3
Exploring how museums can create better places to live and work
With hope growing that the worst of the global pandemic is over, this year’s conference explores how museums can create better places to live and work in a post-Covid world. To do this, museums need to tackle a number of crucial issues, including the climate crisis, inequalities and racism, the legacy of empire, and wellbeing.
Conference sessions will cover:
- How museums can become more sustainable organisations and use their collections, buildings and knowledge to support communities to make positive environmental changes
- What systemic racism is; what an anti-racism museum looks like and what changes we need to create inclusive organisations
- Wellbeing and how museums can support workforce wellbeing and work with their communities to recover from the pandemic
- The legacy of empire and slavery, including how can we empower communities to help decolonise our museums in a dynamic, collaborative and inclusive way
In Edinburgh you can expect three days of interactive and topical content, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, social events, physical tours and practice sessions. If you can’t attend in person, joining online for some or all of the event gives you the opportunity to access great content at your own convenience.
Click here for more information, to view the full programme and to book your place
Thursday 3 – Saturday 5 November
Edinburgh International Conference Centre EH3 8EE and online
MA Conference 2022 – day 2
Exploring how museums can create better places to live and work
With hope growing that the worst of the global pandemic is over, this year’s conference explores how museums can create better places to live and work in a post-Covid world. To do this, museums need to tackle a number of crucial issues, including the climate crisis, inequalities and racism, the legacy of empire, and wellbeing.
Conference sessions will cover:
- How museums can become more sustainable organisations and use their collections, buildings and knowledge to support communities to make positive environmental changes
- What systemic racism is; what an anti-racism museum looks like and what changes we need to create inclusive organisations
- Wellbeing and how museums can support workforce wellbeing and work with their communities to recover from the pandemic
- The legacy of empire and slavery, including how can we empower communities to help decolonise our museums in a dynamic, collaborative and inclusive way
In Edinburgh you can expect three days of interactive and topical content, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, social events, physical tours and practice sessions. If you can’t attend in person, joining online for some or all of the event gives you the opportunity to access great content at your own convenience.
Click here for more information, to view the full programme and to book your place
Thursday 3 – Saturday 5 November
Edinburgh International Conference Centre EH3 8EE and online
MA Conference 2022
Exploring how museums can create better places to live and work
With hope growing that the worst of the global pandemic is over, this year’s conference explores how museums can create better places to live and work in a post-Covid world. To do this, museums need to tackle a number of crucial issues, including the climate crisis, inequalities and racism, the legacy of empire, and wellbeing.
Conference sessions will cover:
- How museums can become more sustainable organisations and use their collections, buildings and knowledge to support communities to make positive environmental changes
- What systemic racism is; what an anti-racism museum looks like and what changes we need to create inclusive organisations
- Wellbeing and how museums can support workforce wellbeing and work with their communities to recover from the pandemic
- The legacy of empire and slavery, including how can we empower communities to help decolonise our museums in a dynamic, collaborative and inclusive way
In Edinburgh you can expect three days of interactive and topical content, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, social events, physical tours and practice sessions. If you can’t attend in person, joining online for some or all of the event gives you the opportunity to access great content at your own convenience.
Click here for more information, to view the full programme and to book your place
Thursday 3 – Saturday 5 November
Edinburgh International Conference Centre EH3 8EE and online
Regenerating Communities through Social History day 2
Social History Curators’ Group Conference 2022
The past two years have been challenging ones not just for museums but for the whole world. However, amongst these challenges cultural and heritage organisations continue to make a positive impact on their local community and are often central to regeneration projects. Areas and communities in need of regeneration are often ones where a void has opened up after the decline of a key industry, such as fishing, milling, mining, textile or other manufacture – industries that are central to many social history museums and their collections.
Find out more and book the Regenerating Communities through Social History.
Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July
Leeds City Museum and Thackray Medical Museum
Regenerating Communities through Social History
Social History Curators’ Group Conference 2022
The past two years have been challenging ones not just for museums but for the whole world. However, amongst these challenges cultural and heritage organisations continue to make a positive impact on their local community and are often central to regeneration projects. Areas and communities in need of regeneration are often ones where a void has opened up after the decline of a key industry, such as fishing, milling, mining, textile or other manufacture – industries that are central to many social history museums and their collections.
Find out more and book the Regenerating Communities through Social History.
Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July
Leeds City Museum and Thackray Medical Museum
