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In this session we explored how museum objects can help us take a long view on the urgent challenges our societies face. We heard from Ella Saltmarshe, founder of the Long Time Project, who introduced the concept of Long Time thinking and the power that lies within expanding how we think about time. Justine Boussard, […]
Read More →A small group led by Happy Museum with partners – AIM, NMDC and the National Trust – is exploring how to address the mounting challenges facing museum collections. Environmentally, financially, socially, professionally and ethically, we need to change the way we’re currently working with collections. The scale of the challenge for many museums is existential: […]
Read More →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? We recently posed these questions in an online conversation, exploring how we might close, dispose and end well with partners, Tending […]
Read More →Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs. James L. Hymes Jr. 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 […]
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