All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums

Ableism – prioritising the needs of non-disabled people over disabled people – remains pervasive across the museum sector. Disabled people still face barriers in our buildings, policies and structures, and are chronically unrepresented in our workforce and collections.  

All Inclusive is the Museums Association’s annual online conference exploring how museums can become anti-ableist in everything that they do. Anti-ableism recognises abled privilege and actively looks to challenge and dismantle it through theory, actions and practices.   

Come to All Inclusive to hear provocations, case studies and panel discussions and discover… 

• what an anti-ableist museum might look like in practice 
• how to challenge and dismantle ableism in your museum 
• ways to elevate the perspectives of D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people 
• how to remove barriers in buildings and policies 
• ideas to build a representative workforce. 

This event is for you if… 

• you work in any aspect of people or volunteer management 
• your role involves engagement with the public 
• you manage a small museum with wide-ranging responsibilities 
• you are responsible for access, diversity and inclusion in your organisation
• your orgnisation is aiming to become anti-ableist
• you have an interest in how museums can become more inclusive spaces.

A full programme will be available in due course.

Please note that this event will be recorded and available exclusively to delegates for three months. After that time, it will be made available to members on the Museums Association website.  

We aim to present a diverse range of speakers from across the UK and internationally at our one-day conferences. If you are interested in speaking at one of our events, or have a project you’d like to see explored, please tell us more by emailing the Events Team. 

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Event fees

Concessionary Member – £36
Freelance and Consultant Member – £41
Member (Essential, Full, Institutional and Commercial members) – £46
Non-member – £67

Not a member? Join today and pay a discounted price for this event as well as receiving lots of other great benefits.

Inclusive event places

The Members Support Fund will provide five free places to this event to individual members who face barriers due to ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, and gender identity or sexual orientation (LGBTQ). 

These free places are part of our wider work towards creating a more inclusive sector. We will also support any accessibility requests such as provision of British Sign Language (BSL), audio description or closed captioning. The deadline to apply for an Inclusive Place is 11.59pm, 7 April 2025. 

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