OUT NOW📕 UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 report on #return and #restitution of cultural properties. The success stories speak to the power of cultural diplomacy to overcome political & legal barriers. Momentum is building to restore the rights of communities to their heritage.
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Had an insightful
afternoon with the Scott Trust / Guardian Legacies of Enslavement team and cultural colleagues from across the city. Now giving this important job opportunity to uplift and connect work in Manchester a push jobs.theguardian.com/job/8931759/pr…

Welcome to Professor Colette Fagan, Research England’s newest Council member

Our exhibition Golden Mummies of Egypt closes in one week. Get down to Manchester Museum if you want to catch it! ✨

We had a lot of fun welcoming the fantastic Greg Jenner into our museum to celebrate the launch of 'Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly', with Dr. Campbell Price Dr Campbell Price

Thanks to everyone who came along to this sell out event!

#TCHMuseumTrail

Taking advantage of the long weekend by watching The Embroiderers all the way through in Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery ⁦the Whitworth⁩ . Only one week to go - you don’t often an exhibition this human, tactile, informative and affecting.

BIG NEWS 🪩

#DiSSCoUK is funded through the UKRI Infrastructure Fund and led by the Natural History Museum and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

This will build on our ten years’ experience of #Digitisation , working with over 90 partner organisations around the UK 🌿

The power of collaboration and co-creation...

It shines through our four shortlistings in the Museums + Heritage Awards.

Thank you South Asia Collective, British Museum, Team Joe, Pinc College., Museum Development North West and The Carbon Literacy Project - you bring out the best in us!

Congratulations artist Daksha Patel - awarded £13,718 through #nationallottery to run creative workshops for asylum seeker & refugees Rainbow Haven exploring flora from their countries of origin. The participants’ artwork & artist’s drawings will be displayed Manchester Museum

Join us exclusively LIVE and in person Manchester Museum on 3rd April!

NEW leadership role 💥 Come work with me and the brilliant team Manchester Museum Museum experience not necessary. Please share widely 🙏

Back in the Nature's Library gallery again for #BritishScienceWeek and today we are play-testing an interactive for our upcoming Wild exhibition, due to open Manchester Museum in June

Very excited for this, having heard Nusrat speak to our team recently and seen the wonderful ground-breaking South Asia gallery Manchester Museum I can confidently say the sector has much to learn from her approach and experiences.

Thanks to everyone who voted, looking forward to meeting the rest of the trustees (new and established) soon.

The new Manchester Museum is 1 year old. Sometimes cultural leadership is hard, and sometimes it looks like this …Esme Ward #partyforthepeople

✍️ Dear Work, We Need to Talk.

@JoVerrent recently shared an honest letter at a Clore Leadership Now event addressing the challenges confronting leaders in the cultural sector today.

Check out the piece now up on our blog: bit.ly/4bF571v

The Sankey Archive is a phenomenal record of Barrow (home) and its surrounds. Amazing work by ⁦Signal Film & Media⁩ theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

Museums Association Board voting is open and I’m in the mix. If you are a member I’d appreciate your vote and I commit to give it everything I’ve got. The sector needs its best advocates right now. I’m in good company on the ballot, so you are spoilt for choice!