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How Can Museums Foster Empathy and Social Change?

In an era marked by division and misunderstanding, how can museums become spaces for fostering empathy and driving social transformation? The Empathy Museum stands as...

Best practice in making Museums more accessible to visually impaired visitors

Museums have a duty to cater to people with a wide range of needs and this includes visually impaired people. This is not a small...

How Can Museums Change Lives With Apprenticeships?

Nestled in the heart of Baltimore, The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, stands as a testament to the city’s rich history and its ongoing commitment to...

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam’s Pioneering Exhibition on Poverty

In the heart of the Dutch city of Schiedam, where one in six children grows up in poverty, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, a pillar of...

Transforming Community Engagement in Unexpected Spaces

When you think of a museum, a bustling shopping center might not be the first place that comes to mind. But for the Migration Museum...

What Does It Mean to Decolonize a Museum? The Answer Might Surprise You

In recent years, a notable movement towards decolonizing museums has emerged across the US, Europe, and Australia. However, the very meaning of decolonizing is being...

Evaluating the Evaluators: Investigating Museum Survey and Research Practices

Brianna Casas, Katherine Duval, Nicolas Lord — Master of Science, Museums and Digital Culture Program, Pratt Institute Introduction In the spring of 2024, students taking...

Centring cultural change: how to ensure that anti-racist engagement goes deeper within the museum sector

Elma Glasgow, founder of Elma Glasgow Consulting, is a national award-winning engagement consultant, storyteller, and communications expert. She shares her expertise in influencing positive change...

Dynamic decolonisation: how the Wilberforce House Museum is inspiring lasting change

Heritage consultant Ali Bodley shared her work on decolonising collections and uplifting marginalised voices at the Wilberforce House Museum in Hull. Through award-winning programming and...
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How Museums are Helping Homeless People

Museums are helping homeless people in a variety of ways. Homelessness is an important issue in the United States. The US Department of Housing and...

Poverty Proofing Museums

Museums, galleries, and heritage sites, along with the many wild, weird and wonderful organisations that make up the UK’s vibrant cultural sector, have a unique...
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Museums Working With Refugees And Migrants

How do museums fit into the narrative around the refugee and migrant crisis? Migration is a big political issue, both in North America and Europe....

Can Museums Be Neutral Or Should They Take A Stance?

Issues like sustainability, representation and diversity dominate modern society, but should we expect museums to take a stance? We’re living in an increasingly political and...

People behind the museums: Eleanor Root, Collections and Learning Curator (Community), Colchester + Ipswich Museums

  MuseumNext sat down with curator, Eleanor Root, to find out why she had been inspired to create a working document filled with ideas to...

Museum Thought Leaders Urge One-to-One Action to Support Ukraine’s Museums

Renowned museum thought leaders Elaine Heumann Gurian and Linda Norris have called upon the museum world to support Ukrainian institutions and those who work in...

Understanding the essential role of progressive social engagement in successful audience development

By taking a stand when it comes to visitor engagement, cultural institutions can reach new levels of success Like any organisation looking to grow, a...

How are Museums working with Prisons, Ex-Offenders and exploring the justice system?

Prisoners and ex-offenders have a complex set of needs. These need to be met in order for them to be effectively rehabilitated into society. Museums...

The Lampedusa Cross, currently touring English museums, is a symbol of refugees’ plight

It is a simple construction, made from the remnants of a boat carrying refugees wrecked near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast...

New museum opened along Korean Demilitarised Zone is a beacon for peace and unification

The odds of peaceful dialogue between North and South Korea were seemingly shattered last year when Pyongyang blew up a joint liaison office in its...

Multaka-Oxford refugee project at Oxford University Museums gets five-year extension

A £1m donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies will allow the innovative Multaka-Oxford project at Oxford University’s History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum to run...

Secret Museum to tell ‘true’ impact on homelessness during pandemic

Homelessness in the UK is on the rise year-on-year but in March 2020 as the World Health Organisation announced COVID-19 as a pandemic it seemed...
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Hello Future: Manchester Museum’s redevelopment – becoming ‘the museum our city needs’

At the end of last month Manchester Museum closed its doors until October 2022 to put the finishing touches to its £13.5m Hello Future project,...

Action on sustainability must speak louder than words if museums and attractions are to play their part in a greener future

There are few (if any) cultural organisations in the world today that would argue with the need to make sustainability a top priority for the...

Why 2021 will be momentous for social justice in museums

If 2020 was a year that put social justice issues in the spotlight, 2021 will be a year for some landmark changes to remedy these...

The Representation of Mental Illness in Museums

In 2016 the Mental Health Foundation released a document titled Fundamental Facts about Mental Illness 2016, which stated that problems concerning mental health are one...