Open Workshops Programme – 2025
See below for events in our Open Conversation Programme for 2025 (including registration for upcoming events and reports/recordings of past events)
Celebrating our imagination and freeing up our thinking. Playful Approaches for Museum Teams
Tuesday, October 14 · 12:30 – 2pm
Many museums offer playful opportunities for children – but how creative, experimental and playful are we in our work – as adult professionals and within our museum teams? How might playful approaches open up new ideas and creativity in our work, within our organisations, and with our communities? What could be unleashed by tapping into our individual and collective imagination.
FULL DETAILS and REGISTER HERE https://shorturl.at/bir4l
Tending to Endings – exploring how we close, dispose and end well in museums
Tuesday, November 11 · 12:30 – 2pm
Are you, or your museum, struggling with something you need to bring to a close, give up or pass on? What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward? Join us to explore endings in our museum settings as part of life’s natural cycles – offering imaginative and grounded ways into difficult questions.
FULL DETAILS and SIGN UP HERE https://shorturl.at/h5Ikm
PAST SESSIONS
Museum Storytelling for Transformative Change
How could innovative approaches help us (and our audiences) imagine new possibilities and open up capacity and agency for change? In this interactive workshop we approached storytelling through the lens of system change – devised and led Peter Lefort who runs the Green Futures Network at the University of Exeter.
Watch a recording of the session HERE
Since the session a Postive Tipping Points Toolkit has been launched to support transformational change in a way that is accessible, rewarding and collaborative. Check it out and get involved HERE.
Stormy Socials – speaking with courage and clarity
Work for a museum and use social media? Concerned about the information disorder sweeping the social media eco-system? Join Happy Museum and Museum of Homelessness in an open conversation exploring ethical use of social media for museums.
Read a blogpost about the session HERE.
CLICK HERE for recordings and reports of previous open conversations in our ongoing programme.
Credits
Illustration of hands tying knots in threads by Hannah Mumby (www.hannahmumby.co.uk)
Image of clouds – Hilary Jennings
Images clockwise from top left Hilary Jennings Paul Clarke Dave Lowe on Unsplash Belinda Fewings on Unsplash