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Money Talks: Income Generation for Museums

Discover practical, creative and achievable ways that museums can generate sustainable income.

All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums

Exploring how museums can be more accessible and embed anti-ableism across their operations.

Future of Museums: Engaging Volunteers

This event brought together practitioners, academics and researchers to radically rethink how volunteers can contribute to the sector.

Reach Out: Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums

Practical advice and case studies that demonstrate how museums can build relationships with underserved audiences such as teenagers and young adults.

Breaking Barriers: Radical Curatorial Engagement

With the growth in participatory practice and the drive to tell wider and more inclusive stories with our collections, this event explores how the role of the curator is evolving.

Future of Museums: Disposal

Exploring how museums can have a positive and proactive attitude towards ethical disposal of collections.

Come Together: Building Sustainable Partnerships

Exploring how museums can create organisational change and ensure community engagement work is sustainable, embedded and equitable.

Don't Stop Me Now: Launching Your Museum Career (2022)

This event is aimed at students and people seeking to work in museums who want to find out more about their options.

Future of Museums: Collections

How are museums using their collections in exciting, engaging and socially impactful ways?

Getting to Know You: Understanding Museum Audiences

Explore the latest approaches to visitor insight and share methods to connect with new and existing audiences.

Moving on Up: Making an Impact with your Career (2022)

Our essential careers conference for professionals who are ready to take the next step.

All Together Now: Embedding Community Participation

Exploring how museums are engaging with underserved audiences and working with community interest groups in participatory and equitable ways.

Amazing Spaces: Designing Great Exhibitions

This conference on exhibition design is for anyone involved in creating permanent or temporary displays and exhibition.

Future of Museums: Curation

How is curation changing and what might tomorrow’s museum curators look like and do?

Digital Futures: Embracing New Strategies

Exploring how the Covid pandemic has changed our understanding of digital engagement and forced museums to think more creatively about how to reach and connect with different audiences.

Museums and Black Lives Still Matter

In collaboration with Culture&, a joint UK and US symposium on how our museums are responding to racism and what needs to happen next.

Learning and engagement webinar

This seminar explored the current state and future potential of museum learning and engagement ahead of the launch of the Learning and Engagement Manifesto.

Members Together Online: Ethics

We discuss approaches to ethical decision-making and how we make the new Code of Ethics relevant, usable and fit for purpose. This event took place on 22 January 2025.

Members Together Online: Advocacy

The second in our series of online-only members’ events, in which we discussed how to advocate for your museum. This event was held on 11 December 2024.

Members Together Online: Wellbeing

Workforce development lead Tamsin Russell held a discussion on how we can improve workforce wellbeing in the sector on 16 October 2024.

England – November 2023

Watch our hybrid Members Together: England meeting, which was held for MA members in Manchester and online on 29 November 2023.

Northern Ireland – June 2023

Watch our hybrid Members Together: Northern Ireland meeting, which was held for MA members in Belfast and online on 27 June 2023.

Scotland – March 2023

Watch our hybrid Members Together: Scotland meeting, which was held for MA members in Glasgow and online on 2 March 2023.

Wales – September 2022

Watch our hybrid Members Together: Wales meeting, which was held for MA members in Cardiff and online on 27 September 2022.

Advocating for your museum

In these challenging times when decision makers are having to make difficult choices to balance budgets, it’s more important than ever to advocate for the great work that your museum is doing. This discussion took place on 20 September 2023.

A new deal for museums

We gathered a panel to reimagine the future of museums at a time when the sector has never been more vulnerable. This discussion took place on 9 March 2023.

Workforce wellbeing

In this conversation we explore workforce wellbeing at an individual, organisational and sector level. This webinar took place on 9 February 2023.

Learning and Engagement Manifesto, webinar three

The final panel discussion, covering two headings from the Learning and Engagement Manifesto: research and evaluation, and partnerships.

Learning and Engagement Manifesto, webinar two

A panel discussion about three headers of our Learning and Engagement Manifesto: community participation, workforce and collections.

Climate Crisis

A panel discussion looking at what museums could and should be doing as part of their commitment towards climate justice.

Learning and Engagement Manifesto, webinar one

A panel discussion about the first two headers of our Learning and Engagement Manifesto: cultural rights and cultural democracy, and social justice.

The Future of Museums

A panel discussion reflecting on the fallout of global events from the past year – and looking forward to what the future might hold in 2021 and beyond.

Museum Ethics

A panel discussion about some of the ethical ramifications of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.

Dismantling Racism in Museums

A panel discussion organised by the Museums Association and Museum Detox about how individuals and museums can confront racism in the museum and heritage sector.

Front of House

Sharon Heal, Director, Museums Association, chairs a panel discussion about how Covid-19 closures and regulations are impacting front-of-house staff and volunteers.

The Future of Civic Museums

Sharon Heal, Director, Museums Association, chairs this Zoom panel discussion on what the future holds for civic museums.

Rethinking Museum Learning & Engagement

Dhikshana Pering, Head of Engagement and Skills, Somerset House, and Board Member, Museums Association, chairs this panel discussion.

Workforce Wellbeing

Catch up with this panel discussion about the importance of wellbeing in our workforce and how we can support this during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

Collections

Sharon Heal, Director, Museums Association, chairs a panel discussion exploring new ways of thinking, working and engaging with collections in a post Covid-19 world.

Reopening Museums

Watch this webinar about how museums can welcome back visitors when they are able to reopen.

Future of Our Workforce

Watch this panel discussion about the future of our workforce in light of the Covid-19 crisis.

Leadership During a Crisis

The first in a series of webinars the Museums Association (MA) is running for its members in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Decolonisation: moving towards a more holistic perspective and relational approach

As the conversation has expanded to consider how museums reflect the voices and experiences of a diverse range of audiences and communities, approaches have become less transactional.

Leading digital at a time of uncertainty

It’s time to recognise that digital change in museums is about supporting people and not just mastering technology.

Time for change: tackling underrepresentation

Championing equality and inclusion is a step towards challenging current underrepresentation and bringing about positive change, but is this radical enough to create a culture shift and change mindsets?

Community engagement: inspiring engagement

What working examples can be shared to demonstrate how community engagement looks different in other countries, and how can we go from mission statement to practice?

From an unsustainable past to a sustainable future

A sustainable future needs sustainable museums, just as a sustainable future will be no place for unsustainable museums.