Tagged with Heritage

Museums and Heritage Student Volunteering Toolkit

This toolkit, created by Kingston University Museum & Gallery Studies MA student Holly Bastable, provides guidance and advice on developing skills, professional experience and career opportunities through volunteering. Highlights include […]

Education Galleries GEM Heritage Learning Museums volunteer Volunteering

#MuseumHour on Reopening Museums

Take a look at this summary of the 3rd May 2021 #MuseumHour Twitter discussion hosted by Dan Johnson for helpful inspiration, advice and affirmation regarding reopening museums in Spring 2021, […]

#MuseumHour covid COVID-19 Digital guidance Heritage Museums Open for Learning policy Reopen Reopening Twitter

Fair Museum Jobs Summit Recordings

Fair Museum Jobs Summit #FMJSummit was presented by Fair Museum Jobs and GEM in November 2020 with support from Art Fund. There were many exciting webinars on topics relating to […]

Access Career Career development Careers CPD Digital Heritage Museums Resource

That Feels Like Home Podcast

That Feels Like Home uses MoDA's collections to build new stories that connect museum objects to contemporary topical issues. The podcast brings together academics, students, creative practitioners and researchers who engage with the museum's collections in different ways.

Design Heritage museum Podcast

A Thousand Lost and Found Stories: How to run your own wellbeing project

The toolkit, created by Wessex Archaeology, includes an animated video guide and a downloadable information leaflet. It is designed to enable cultural and heritage organisations to create and deliver their own digital heritage wellbeing projects and is available to explore and download for free.

Archaeology Health and wellbeing Heritage Museums Wellbeing

Kids in Museums: How can museums support young people’s employment and employability skills?

Kids in Museums wants to see the museum workforce becoming more diverse by creating routes for young people from all backgrounds to work in museums. Although there may not be […]

Career Children CPD Employment Heritage Museums Young people

Creating engaging videos on a budget

Discover best practice examples from Leeds Museums and Galleries, the Egypt Centre and Cambridge University Museums, and hear top tips on equipment, set up, recording, editing and post-production in this GEM video created with Engage.

Digital Galleries Heritage Museums Resources Video

Kids in Museums Playful Museums Case Studies

During the pandemic Kids in Museums helped 11 different museums create family friendly activities. Read the case studies in this resource! Including: Coventry Transport Museum PK Porthcurno Rugby Museum and […]

Children and Young People Early years Families Family Learning Family-friendly Galleries Heritage Museums

Colchester + Ipswich Museums, Decolonisation + Democratisation Resources

During November and December 2020, Colchester + Ipswich Museums hosted a series of live-streams on their YouTube channel. Catch up on all 6 episodes and find further resources below.

Decolonisation Democratisation Digital Engagement Heritage Learning Museums Virtual

Safeguarding Policy Example

Safeguarding policy example commissioned by GEM and created by Heritage and Arts Freelancer Lizzie Mee. This policy is adaptable to various museum, heritage and cultural organisations. For the Word version […]

Adults Children Digital Education Heritage Learning Museums Online Risk Assessment Safeguarding Young people