We have added a call for participation for workshop 3 which will have an online and an in person component, across May and June 2024 – see here. Please spread the news!
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News – recordings of workshop 2 now available
Recordings of the presentations at our second workshop are now available here. We hope you enjoy watching!
Recruiting and selecting curatorial staff at the British Museum in the 19th and 20th centuries: Civil servants and the ideal of the classical education
Archival material held at the British Museum (BM) reveals that staff recruitment was a fairly bureaucratic, rule-driven process over which considerable trouble was taken, certainly compared to many non-national museums where recruitment was ad hoc, informal, and concerned with spending as little money as possible above all else. Although museums have changed their recruitment practices Read More…
Workshop 1: abstracts and bios
Making Museum Professionals Workshop 1, 23 May 2023: Museum Work: Hierarchies and Barriers, Exclusion and Inclusion Abstracts and speaker details Keynotes: Dr Errol Francis, Towards inclusivity and relevance in UK arts and heritage Abstract: Culture& is a black-led arts and education charity based in London. Culture& provides consultancy and research and has co-curated a number Read More…
Diversification and Diversity: The Employment of Asian Museum Professionals in the UK
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…
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…