Category: Museum Development North
National Lottery Heritage Fund Case Study – Roots & Branches
National Lottery Heritage Fund have produced a case study for the award winning Roots & Branches environmental sustainability project led by Museum Development England, Manchester Museum and the Carbon Literacy Project. Read the case study here
MDE EDI Research Project Survey
You are invited to take part in an online survey which is part of a Museum Development England (MDE) research project looking at Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training in the museum sector in England. The objective of the project is to support and help MDE to develop new national EDI programmes for the museum sector workforce (including trustees, senior leadership/senior staff […]
Advice And Guidance Following Recent Riots
Security As a response to recent events some museums contacted us seeking advice on the security of historic buildings. All of Arts Council England’s security resources are available on Collections Trust’s website – Security advice – Collections Trust. These include the Museum Security Toolkit and Security Audit to help venues review their security and identify […]
Success for Northern Museums at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024
We are very pleased to announce that the Roots and Branches programme has been awarded Sustainable Project of the Year at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024. It won the award jointly with The Scottish Crannog Centre for their 1000 Fingerprints 1000 Voices project. Roots and Branches is a collaboration between The Carbon Literacy Project, Museum Development England, and Manchester Museum. It is […]
GEM – Case Studies
GEM has shared their spring Case Studies, the theme of which is ‘Reimaging Engagement’. A number of northern museums have been included in the case studies selected; The Judges Lodgings, National Museums Liverpool, The Auckland Project and Vindolanda. Read the case studies on the GEM website
IAASF Conference 2024
This year’s theme will discuss Developing Resilience for the Protection of Cultural Venues at Redworth Hall Hotel, County Durham on the 16th and 17th of October 2024. We welcome speakers and delegates from around the world, with the Middle East, Europe, New Zealand and Canada being on the list last year. We currently have an early bird offer Our […]
Get Your House In Order – Collections Documentation Programme
Do you know what you have, where it is and who owns it? Can you afford not to know this? Our ‘Getting Your House in Order’ programme focuses on the planning and work required for museums to get their collections documentation in order. You can book now for our first 3 sessions, an Introduction to […]