The discussions will be led by @emilyautism.bsky.social and @tamsincrussell.bsky.social, and all participants will be paid a fee of £150 for their time as part of our commitment to recognising contributions of lived experience. Find out more via the link above and express your interest by 11 March.

Sometimes you have to utilise the prevailing power dynamic to make good change.

How can we share power in the cultural sector?

‘What counts as memory?’ And if a fallen statue us still in a museum basement rather than melted down there is a risk of re-erejection.

‘Not having a dream happen and then needing to have another dream’. This is a real challenge for funding streams that ALWAYS require newness.

‘Hopeful or harmful’. Let’s discuss. What can cultural organisations do.

‘We are not lone individuals we are constellations.’

Tamsin C Russell@tamsincrussell.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Love the discussion about access - right to roam, walking in cities, everyday spaces as opposed to culture and heritage being behind locked doors in museums.

Love the discussion about access - right to roam, walking in cities, everyday spaces as opposed to culture and heritage being behind locked doors in museums.

If we can adjust to a re-brand we can adjust to the removal of a violent aggressor names from buildings.

Huge thanks to @lspurdle.bsky.social and Mark McLeod for organising, and @tamsincrussell.bsky.social for ace facilitation skills.

Dr Rachel Souhami@rachelsouhami.bsky.social · last yr.

Just got home after a fantastic day at MuseumsCamp filled with engaging discussions and plenty of ideas. It’s unusual to come away from a conference feeling energised rather than exhausted. And lovely to meet so many new people / bsky people irl!

Reflections on the Code of Ethics | Working it out 🤝 As part of a series of blog posts about the new Code of Ethics, @tamsincrussell.bsky.social, our workforce development lead, discusses the importance of ethical practice in creating inclusive, welcoming workplaces.

Reflections on the Code of Ethics | Working it out - Museums Association

Tamsin Russell, the MA's workforce development lead, discusses the importance of ethical practice in creating inclusive workplaces

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Low pay in the museum sector has a detrimental impact on workforce attraction, retention and wellbeing. Led by @tamsincrussell.bsky.social, we’ll be exploring how to redress poor pay and implement more equitable pay policies in our next session in the lecture theatre at 3.20pm 💷 #Museums2025

Pay in museums - Museums Association

Read the 2024 update of our Salary Research and Recommendations to address low sector pay

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Fabulous Friday night. Radical Book Fair.

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Museums Association@museumsassociation.org · last yr.

Reflections on the Code of Ethics | Working it out 🤝 As part of a series of blog posts about the new Code of Ethics, @tamsincrussell.bsky.social, our workforce development lead, discusses the importance of ethical practice in creating inclusive, welcoming workplaces.

Heritage Volunteering Group What if everyone stopped volunteering? A new Works4U report (with our input at HVG) warns the UK would face soaring isolation, weaker democracy & fragile communities. Volunteering isn’t optional – it’s society’s backbone. Read more www.works-4u.com/what-if

Younger daughter and I have been working on prototypes for the small portable museums that will be in my Etsy shop soon. We’ll be making a wooden grid in each tin for the finds & a booklet about the neuroscience of how collecting & arranging your finds alleviates anxiety & lifts mood #mentalhealth

Museums, libraries, archives people! We're doing another meet up on September 16th. No agenda, no presentations, just an informal gathering over a drink. Full details here: gigs.museumsshowoff.org.uk/2025/09/02/m...

Let’s Meet Up Again!

We had a lovely time at the first GLAM meet up last month so we’re doing it again this month! If you work in or with museums, libraries and archives and would like to get together, and chat /…

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Delighted to be chairing this @museumsassociation.org event on Wednesday - www.museumsassociation.org/events/helpi...

Helping Hands: Harnessing the Power of Volunteers - Museums Association

Volunteering in museums and galleries takes many different forms, from front of house, events and learning and engagement roles, through …

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Nominations are open for the 2025 Women into Leadership Awards, which recognise those who go above and beyond to champion diversity and empower women across the civil service. Find out more and submit nominations using the link below: leadership-awards.co.uk/women-into-l...

Women into Leadership Awards - Leadership Awards

NOMINATIONS DEADLINE: NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN The 2025 Women into Leadership Awards After a hugely successful launch of the inaugural Women into Leadership Awards last year, we are delighted to introduce...

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"Bluesky shows higher level of content originality in scholarly discourse, perhaps due to a higher proportion of academic users. X tends to favor simple retweets. This positions Bluesky as a richer environment for substantive science communication."🧪 True for our study www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to be chairing and speaking at this event next week about workforce wellbeing why not come along? www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...

Members Together Online: Wellbeing - Museums Association

Getting our members together for interactive, lively discussions, key information and feedback, is core to our membership offer and one …

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Delighted to be chairing and speaking at this event next week about workforce wellbeing why not come along? www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...

Members Together Online: Wellbeing - Museums Association

Getting our members together for interactive, lively discussions, key information and feedback, is core to our membership offer and one …

museumsassociation.org

Fabulous service again from NHS. Phoned surgery at 8:30. Triage call at 9:10. In person appointment at 10:30 Three prescriptions, blood taken and two more appts booked in and home by 11:00. Bill-zero. Some people want to look to fully privatise the NHS we must always fight for it. ❤️

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. James Baldwin

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision

Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

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A big shout out to everyone who is matrix managing but isn’t classed as a manager, with their associated pay because they are not direct line reports. When we all really know the skills to manage in a matrix fashion far outweigh the skills for line management. ❤️

Great to see other museums adopt the approach from Birmingham Museums. ❤️🤓❤️

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last yr.

Interesting - the National Gallery are going to set up a Citizens' Assembly of 50 participants, selected by lottery, with invitations sent out to 15,000 households across the UK. They will ‘reflect on the Gallery’s purpose, priorities and public value’ www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...

So excited about this next programme. We have a waiting list of mentees already so why not make their day, career, future?

Museums Association@museumsassociation.org · last yr.

Become a Mentoring for All mentor for the next cohort 👤 If you think you could help other museum professionals develop their confidence, competence and connections, we want to hear from you. We’re now recruiting mentors for the January 2026 cohort of our 12-month Mentoring for All programme.