Originally posted on 10 June 2015 by LMG Events #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject he value of services for children and young people Thursday 2 July 1 – 4pm Museum of London, Docklands The fourth in our series of free events that interrogate and discuss Arts Council England’s five goals, this time we look into Goal 5 – the provision of high-quality arts and cultural learning experiences for, by and with children and young people. Working with children and young people is

Originally posted on 28 September 2015 by LMG Events #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Thinking about your audience Canada Water Library Culture Space Monday 16 November 1.30-4.30pm This event is the fifth in London Museum Group’s series exploring the Arts Council goals. In this event we look at audience mapping and focus on strategies for identifying your existing audience, working effectively with data, and diversifying your audience. Programme 1.30 Judy Willcocks, LMG

Originally posted on 6 January 2016 by LMG Blogger #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject An event by London Museums Group and Hackney Museum Monday 29th February Time – 12.30 – 5pm Venue – Terrace Gallery, Museum of London This event will explore how processes of organisational change can help museums to embed active community engagement and participatory ways of working into the core of their work, even at challenging times. Hackney Museum was one of the seven museums and g

Originally posted on 23 February 2018 by Paddy McNulty #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Date: Thursday 22nd March – 1330 (1400) to 1700 Venue: Museum of the Order of St. John, Farringdon, London Cost: Free (Funded) Building a career in the museums sector can be tough, there is a scarcity of posts and many of them are short-term or project specific, the workforce is highly qualified and entry level qualifications requirements are tough, the workforce struggles to represe

Originally posted on 22 February 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject This guest post was written by my incredible colleagues, Stacey Marie Garcia and Emily Hope Dobkin, with minimal input from me. It started as a handout for a session Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realised it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. Can’t wait to hear what you think. Nina Simon, Executive Direct

Originally posted on 25 February 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Do you have tricky documentation issues? On Tuesday 14 May 2013 the Regional Museum Development team are running a workshop as part of the Accreditation Plus training programme on documentation. We would like to tailor the workshop to the areas of documentation that you feel you need support with (such as dealing with backlogs or documentation planning). The workshop will then

Originally posted on 25 February 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Why are we doing this? The LSA Calendar ‘App’ is a new opportunity to show film from the LSA network to the public, reaching potentially new, large audiences online and promoting the individual collections. It also links us into the larger network of Regional Film Archives, with whom we will collaborate on a national version of the calendar. What is it? The app will be gifted

Originally posted on 25 February 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject This month LMG have teamed up with Nina Simon, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of The Participatory Museum to co-publish the blog Radical Collaboration | Tools for Partnering with Community Members. Nina designs and researches participatory museum experiences and this blog, written by her two colleagues, acts as a toolkit for anyone look

Originally posted on 5 November 2012 #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject The finalists for Connect10 have been selected and voting is now open! There 9 museums in London competing for 5 different artists. The venues competing for each artist are (to vote for your local or favourite London museum click on the artists’ name below): Jake and Dinos Chapman: Barts Pathology Museum in London; Cheltenham Art Gallery; Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and the Museum of London. Mat Collish

Originally posted on 13 March 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject The Board of Trustees of the Florence Nightingale Museum are pleased to announce the major acquisition of a collection of ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu showing the volunteer field hospital run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955) at Bourbourg near Dunkirk in 1915. This acquisition – along with the associated interpretation and engagement programme – has been most

Originally posted on 30 March 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject UPDATE: Share Academy announce grants to develop museum and academic partnerships. In the autumn of 2012, Arts Council England funded University College London [UCL], the University of Arts London [UAL], and the London Museums Group [LMG] to investigate how those working in museums and universities could effectively team up in order to reap the rewards of collaborative partnershi

Originally posted on 3 April 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Andrew Lewis has written a blog sharing findings from research by national museums into what visitors say about using mobile devices in museums. To read the blog go to: http://www.vam.ac.uk/b/blog/digital-media/museum-visitors-using-mobile?utm_source=vam.ac.uk&utm_medium=mcglst&utm_content=visitors-mobile&utm_campaign=blg

Originally posted on 3 April 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has published an evaluation of the Revisiting Collections methodology, which encourages engagement with museum collections. The methodology was developed between 2005 and 2008 by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in partnership with the Collections Trust. The document, commissioned by the PHF Special Initiative ‘Our Museum: Communities an

Originally posted on 4 April 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Ten museums and galleries have been chosen by the judges to compete for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year and the £10,000 Clore Award for Learning. Celebrating the very best UK museums and galleries, the Prize highlights the innovative and creative ways that museums bring objects and collections to life, looking specifically at activity undertaken in 2012. As well

Originally posted on 17 April 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject The Happy Museum Project wants museums to play an active part in a sustainable future, by fostering wellbeing that doesn’t cost the Earth. So it’s helpful to have the proof that museums do make you happy, in the form of a report from ‘Happiness Economist’ Daniel Fujiwara of the London School of Economics. Happy Museum used funding from the Arts Council to commission the analysis.

Originally posted on 31 May 2013 by London Museums Group #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject The security resources section has been reviewed and updated to provide you and your teams with a unique, comprehensive, and practical collection of resources. You can visit it now at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/security. This revised content draws on input from the security seminars, run by Collections Trust and supported by Arts Council England, and they also helped audit,

Originally posted on 11 June 2013 by Paddy McNulty #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject The William Morris Gallery, run by the London Borough of Waltham Forest, has pipped 9 other strong contenders to win the 2013 Art Fund Museum of the Year Prize, which comes with an award of £100,000.  The Hepworth Wakefield won the Clore Award for Learning, also administered by the Art Fund, along with an award of £10,000. The prizes were announced by broadcaster and journalist Ian Hislo

Originally posted on 11 June 2013 by Paddy McNulty #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Share Academy is a partnership project between UCL, UAL and the London Museums Group whose aim is to build sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between the higher education sector  and specialist museums in London. Share Academy is supported by Arts Council strategic funding and over the next two years support and advice will be available through the scheme, together  with s

Originally posted on 18 July 2013 by Paddy McNulty #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Share Academy is a partnership project between UCL, University of the Arts London, and the London Museums Group whose aim is to build sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between the higher education sector and specialist museums in London. Arts Council strategic funding supports Share Academy and over the next two years support and advice will be available through the schem

Originally posted on 29 July 2013 by Julie Reynolds #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject Not knowing the difference between work experience and internship could prove costly as HMRC clamps down. Is it ever OK not to pay? This article on the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) website, provides interesting insight into this terminology: http://www.cipd.co.uk/pm/peoplemanagement/b/weblog/archive/2013/06/23/intern-employee-or-work-experience.aspx