Celebrating Museums

Celebrating Museums 2026 was a full day in-person event held at the Cloth Hall Court, Leeds on Thursday 12 March 2026. The event was organised by Museum Development North in partnership with Arts Council England.

Presentations were on a range of topics:

• Wakefield Museums and Castles, A World of Good
• Heritage Doncaster, Time Odyssey Partnership; a new way of engaging KS2 pupils
• Ordsall Hall, Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall: Using Creative Health to Explore Historical Sleep
• Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life, Just Keep Trying or how to get funding to undertake a Collections Project
• Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Museum on the Move
• Culture Warrington, A Greener Way of doing things
• Tees Valley Museums Group, Museums Inside
• Armitt Museum, Thinking INSIDE the box: Diversifying experiences and income through escape boxes
• National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool, The Changing Tide, an Inspiring Journey with Hartlepool’s South Asian Community
• West Cheshire Museums, Carbon Literacy as a Local Authority Museum
• Keswick Museum, Connecting past and present multi-sensory exhibitions at Keswick
• Hopetown Darlington, A Year of The Space – A Year of Community
• Kiplin Hall and Gardens, Museum Store Move
• Epworth Old Rectory, Out of the Box – Improving our inclusivity & relevance
• Rotherham Museums, SELF: There’s More To Me Than What You See

You can find the slides from all presentations here and some of the presentations were recorded for our YouTube channel.

You can still watch presentations from the 2025 event here

Next year’s event will be held in March 2027. We’ll release more details closer to the date.