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GEM Conference 2023: “Sensing the Past”
GEM Conference 2023: Big Impacts from Small Changes: Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity at Wakefield Museums & Castles
In 2022, Wakefield Museums & Castles established a cross-team Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) working group, which developed an Action Plan to improve access and inclusion across our service.
Working with colleagues in Wakefield Council and external partners, we have introduced a wide range of measures to make our sites and programming more inclusive, accessible, and welcoming. Accepting that we can’t do everything at once, we’ve committed to making small changes that achieve big impacts for visitors.
CHWA and GEM: Working Together
We are very grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for their commitment of an award of £249,071 to realise the Working Together project from Autumn 2023.
Chair of GEM Caroline Marcus took part in selecting the winners of the national Coronation Benches Competition at Historic Royal Palaces
Schools across the UK have been on the edge of their seats waiting for the winners of the national Coronation Benches competition to be announced. Today, Historic Royal Palaces can […]
Engaging SEND-audiences through innovative ASMR workshops
As part of the Careers for All Programme, the team at Leeds Museums and Galleries wrote a series of ASMR workshops. In this blog, Carl Newbould, Learning and Access Officer, […]
The Sensational Museum: Using What We Know about Disability to Change how Museums Work for Everyone.
Dr Habib and Dr Bouchard to join GEM as new editors of Journal for Education in Museums
Appealing to Secondary Schools
The theme of this year’s GEM Conference was A Way Forward for Museum Learning, which in a single phrase states exactly what we’re all looking for following the lockdowns and […]
GEM receives funding offer from the Arts Council England 2023 – 2026 Investment Programme
GEM is delighted to announce that it has received a conditional offer of funding from the Arts Council England 2023 – 2026 Investment Programme. Focusing on supporting learning, GEM […]
