“As museum practitioners we can allow museums to be a tool of the establishment, the powered, even the oppressor. But through a reimagining of our purpose, we can instead exercise the power of the museum towards challenging the status quo”

Build The House They Rock In: What kind of #museum will the next generation dream of and build? How might perceptions of museums – and what museums can be – change in the next 10, 20, 100 years? Rachel Noel on the future of museums:

The Co-created Museum: explore co-creation in museums and work through the steps required to approach your own co-creation with community groups #MuseumIdeas #museum

Transforming Youth Engagement, Playful Approaches to Interpretation, Making Playable Immersive Experiences, Co-creating with Communities, Creating Unique Museum Experiences. Booking now open for our 2025 museum study days #MuseumIdeas #museum

Inviting wonder and leading to new paths of discovery, explore how playful approaches to interpretation can spark curiosity, make learning interactive, and help museums become more welcoming, social spaces: #MuseumIdeas #museum

Transform youth engagement in your museum! Join our hands-on study day on how to build impactful partnerships with young people as equals #MuseumIdeas #museum

Join us for an in-depth guide to designing, developing and delivering an immersive playable experience in your museum #MuseumIdeas #museum

Join us to explore play and its purpose in museums. Discover how playful experiences change the way audiences learn, create a manifesto for less text and more play, and take home a tool kit for putting that into action at your museum #MuseumIdeas #museum

Our first study day of 2025 will be an opportunity to learn from best practice in youth engagement in museums and examine how you design programmes and build long-term relations with young people as equal partners: #MuseumIdeas #Museum #YouthEngagement

Excited to start sharing our 2025 events! Find out more about our study days on Transforming Youth Engagement, Creating Unique Museum Experiences, Playful Interpretation, Immersive Experiences, Digital Innovation, and Co-Creation: #MuseumIdeas #museum

What More Is There to Say About Museums? Our final talk of the day by Korantema Anyimadu. A brilliant way to end the day at #MuseumIdeas 2024!

RT @magmidd: "Go now to your local archives and claim an ancestor. They’re waiting," implores author @desreereynolds #MuseumIdeas More her…

Dig Where You Stand with Desiree Reynolds @DWYS_1978 at #MuseumIdeas

Next up the Ethics of Contemporary Collecting with Rosamund Lily West. The book was published yesterday! #MuseumIdeas

RT @Rosamund_Lil: I'm here @MuseumID conference with our new book, 'Ethics of Contemporary Collecting'. I'll be speaking but also have a co…

Our first #MuseumIdeas talk this afternoon from Carrie Canham ⁦@CeredigionMus⁩, Alicia Hughes ⁦@britishmuseum⁩ and Abid Hussain about their co-curated exhibition

Fantastic morning session and now much needed lunch at #MuseumIdeas 2024! Our thanks to all the morning speakers

Next up at #MuseumIdeas Iheanyi Onwuegbucha and Will Rea talking about their work at the JR Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos

I was really looking forward to @ChloeCousins_ talk today and it was everything I hoped. Important and necessary for today’s conversations at #MuseumIdeas 2024

Thanks to Rachel Noel from ⁦@Tate⁩ for a brilliant, thought provoking start to the conference. Now speaking ⁦@ChloeCousins_⁩ with Socially Just Museums: A Paradox? #MuseumIdeas

Delegates arriving for #MuseumIdeas 2024 conference this morning. Looking forward to the day ahead! And happy to say all the morning speakers are also here!