🎨 Artist Commission: Wakefield Pageant (1933)

Are you an artist passionate about community co-production?

Would you like to create an installation celebrating local heritage?

We want to hear from you!

Deadline: Monday 20 May
Fee: £4000 ex VAT

Info: creativewakefield.net/news/wakefield…

Huge congrats to Wakefield Museums & Castles and the young people in Wakefield who have been nominated for their work on the Where we are… project, supported by Youth Association 🙌

Where we are… is a UK-wide programme for young people that co-delivers local arts and cultural projects.

Are you aged 16 to 25?

Do you want to help us make our museums and castles more engaging and accessible for young people?

Apply to join our new Youth Forum! 📢

We will cover travel expenses and pay you £10 p/h (in vouchers) for your time.

More info at bit.ly/WMandCYouthFor…

📣 Job opportunity: Youth Forum Facilitator

Are you passionate about supporting young people to share their ideas and perspectives?

We want to hear from you!

Post: April 2024 to March 2025
Fee: £5000
Deadline: 11 March 2024, 9am

Info and apply: bit.ly/YouthForumFaci…

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We want to make Wakefield Museum a better place for 16-to-25-year-olds.

We need your ideas on how to do it!

We're looking for participants aged 16 to 25 to join us for #YouthTakeoverDay !

More info and how to apply at bit.ly/WMTakeover2024

Apply by 12 Feb

#KidsInMuseums

Tonight we find out if we've won an award at the AHI #EngagingPeopleAwards2023 for our A World of Good project 🥳

We’re shortlisted in the Calling Out Climate Change category alongside Stromness Museum. 🌍❤️

Good luck to all nominees across the different categories!

It's 100 years to the day that the first Wakefield Museum was formally opened! 🥳

Wakefield’s first civic museum and art gallery was formally opened on 10 October 1923.

🔍 Find out more (including what our uniforms looked like in the 1930s...) at bit.ly/WMC100FirstMus…
#WMC100

We have been collecting objects and telling stories for 100 years! 🎉

Today, 10 July 2023, marks 100 years since the first object entered our collection.

Find out all about it and our new 100 Years of Collecting Online Exhibition in our blog: bit.ly/WMC100Blog

#WMC100

In partnership with @BritishMuseum, we’re recruiting for a Creative Facilitator to deliver a series of creative, interactive sessions with local young people, as part of the Where We Are… project.

Fee: £6050 for 22 days’ work
Closes: 3 July 2023
JD: bit.ly/WWACreativeFac…

This is an exciting one! A truly co-produced project between us Wakefield Museums & Castles, British Museum, Youth Association and a group of 15 young people from Wakefield, creating something cultural, local and meaningful

We’re serving you a serious slay from Madam Connie today!

Full of clips from local legend dressmaker Sue Riley and Madam Connie herself, check out Lydia’s (University of York History Department) blog for LGBTQ+ History Month #BehindtheLens :
bit.ly/WMCLGBTHM23

#LGBTHM23 LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🌟 Moving Stories at Wakefield Museum 🌟

From 6 February 2023

Wakefield Museum is getting ready to move!

Take a peek behind the scenes and have your say in our new interactive exhibition.

More info in this thread 🧵
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Last night we celebrated Knottingley’s industrial heritage, through an artwork and event by artist David Appleyard as part of #LightUpWFD

Thanks to Arts Council England, Wakefield Museums & Castles, Leah Mellors and to the people of Knottingley for sharing their stories, memories and thoughts.

Proud. Exhausted. A privilege to work with David Appleyard on Knottingley: Fire & Water for Wakefield Museums & Castles, celebrating industrial heritage in this unique town

Great to be at Fire & Water in Knottingley as part of #LightUpWFD . A brill project funded by Arts Council England sharing and exploring Wakefield Museums & Castles collections with communities and celebrating industrial, social and local heritage with artist David Appleyard. Congrats Leah Mellors! 🙌🙌

2 days to go until Knottingley: Fire & Water!🥳

'What does #Knottingley mean to you?' - over 200 local people have responded on postcards and beermats!

See some of the answers on our blog and come along to the event this Weds 23rd for the full display

bit.ly/WMCKFWBlog

We ❤️ Dennis Wakefield Museums & Castles