In this blog post, Hoyee Tse discusses employment patterns for Asian museum professionals in the UK, uncovering signs that they have very restricted possibilities for paid work, usually focussing on exhibitions ABOUT Asia. Hoyee recently curated the Butterfly Project exhibition by Undone Theatre, and was the 2022 Design Trust Curatorial Fellow at the Royal College Read More…
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Li Yuan-Chia and the LYC Museum – an amateur artist-curator?
In this blog post, Mark Liebenrood discusses the LYC Museum and what it might be able to tell us about the categories of amateur and professional in museum work. Mark has most recently been Visiting Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester, in 2022–23, and in October 2023 he Read More…
Call for participation, Workshop 2, 4-5 December 2023 (online)
The call for participation in our second workshop, Navigating Museum Careers: Pathways, Training and Communities, 1850-Now, which will be held online on 4-5 December 2023, is now live! – click here
Programme and booking now available for workshop 1
Please see Workshop 1 page for programme and booking – open to all!
More keynote speakers confirmed for Workshop 1
We’re delighted to confirm that keynote speakers for Workshop 1 now include Dr Errol Francis from Culture&, and Louise McAward-White from Fair Museum Jobs! These join existing keynotes, Professor Fiona Candlin (Birkbeck) and Tamsin Russell (Museums Association).
First workshop call for participation
Call for participation, Workshop 1: Museum Work: Hierarchies and Barriers, Exclusion and Inclusion 23rd May 2023, at Birkbeck, University of London The Making Museum Professionals network responds to growing campaigns in the museum sector for fairer recruitment and career structures. Across the world, campaign groups have highlighted the systems of inequality facing many of those Read More…