Our Museum Session Today at Museums Association Conference
The Museums Association Conference will take place in Birmingham from Thursday, 5 November to Friday, 6 November. Piotr Bienkowski, Project Director of Our Museum: Communities and Museums as Active Partners, a Paul Hamlyn Foundation special initiative, will chair Friday’s Community Work session.
This session shares learning from Our Museum, which aims to facilitate a process of development and organisational change within museums and galleries that are committed to active partnership with their communities. Piotr and Tracy-Ann Smith, Resource Producer at Our Museum, will introduce a multi-media web-based resource that looks at various aspects of organisational change to embed participation. Delegates will be invited to consider the practicalities of embedding participatory community engagement and to find supporting material most relevant to them.
PHF Chief Executive, Moira Sinclair, will also participate in the Big Debate: Ethics panel at the conference, which will examine how organisations and individuals think about ethical decision making. Drawing on learning from the Our Museum programme, she will discuss their new code of ethics, in particular what the responsibilities are to actively engage and collaborate with existing audiences, to reach out to new and diverse audiences and to use collections for public benefit.
Visit the Our Museum website for more information on this ground-breaking project.
