News | Trans inclusion: Museum sector guidance updated in response to EHRC’s draft code of practice Team behind ethical framework says sector remains 'confused and concerned'

Trans inclusion: Museum sector guidance updated in response to EHRC's draft code of practice - Museums Association

Team behind ethical framework says sector remains 'confused and concerned'

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The LGBTQ+ History Association is proud to announce we are joining the list of institutional members for the Queer HCN! Learn more about the Queer Heritage and Collections Network through their social media on Bluesky at @queerhcn.org LinkedIn, and online at www.queerhcn.org.

📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2026 🗓️ 10-11 Nov 2026 We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces. 📥 Deadline: 14 Aug 2026 📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/s...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network@queerhcn.org · 3mo ago

And a reminder that we are hosting a networking session at the Museums + Heritage Show 2026! Free two-day pass available for 13-14 May at Olympia London. Come join us on Wed, 13 May at 12:00 in the Ambience Lounge #MandHShow @museumsandheritage.com invt.io/1lxbjvb0i1k

ICYMI the latest QHCN newsletter went out today to all subscribers! Find out about the latest queer heritage events and opportunities using the link below ⬇

🏳️‍🌈 Discover hidden histories and alternative perspectives at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, with our LGBTQIA+ guided tour this Saturday, 2 May. 🕑 Tour times • 14:00 – LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks • 15:30 – LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

LGBTQIA+ Tours of Collins Barracks | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland

Explore the National Museum through an LGBTQIA+ lens on our brand new tour.

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Our latest newsletter celebrating Trans Day of Visibility came out today! You can read the full version here: us14.campaign-archive.com?u=f997f858bd...

🌈 Transgender Day of Visibility 2026 🌈 Honouring trans joy, resilience, and visibility today and every day. 💛🤍💜🖤 Go behind the scenes the creation of the National Museum of Ireland’s LGBTQIA+ Tour: 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... 🌟 #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog #Museumology #CulturalHeritage #LightingSparks

Creating the LGBTQIA+ tour for the National Museum | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland

Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

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That's a wrap on the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2025! #QHCN2025 Thank you so much to those of you who managed to attend the event in person today! Just a reminder that the recordings of all presentations across the two days will be available on queerhcn.org within the next few weeks.

Thank you so much for attending today's Symposium! Whether you were attending in person or online, we are so grateful for your enthusiastic support and input! 🌈 #QHCN2025

Been really enjoying the @queerhcn.org symposium online today - what a range of things people have been up to looking at LGBTQ+ history across museums and heritage #QHCN2025

We are just getting started at the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2025! Looking forward to an exciting day of presentations, networking and badge making #QHCN2025

We are exactly one week away from the QHCN Symposium 2025! 🌈 Registrations are still open for online attendance on 25 November 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-heri... View the full digital programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Content Summary and Quick Navigation Welcome to the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2025 ACCESS INFORMATION: National Trust – Heelis AT-A-GLANCE SCHEDULE Day 1 | Tuesday, 25 Nove...

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🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢 Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond 📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025 📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis Registration links below ⬇

We've got active two calls for papers out now! Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call... Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives 📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time) Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈 With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA). 🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻

TOP - NOW OPEN ✨ Our newest exhibition Top by Claye Bowler is now open! This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access top surgery. – Images from Queer Britain

Queer Britain has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their upcoming exhibition 🌈 Consider donating using the link below! ⬇

Queer Britain Museum@queerbritain.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"I wish there was more." We hear it all the time, so we're making it happen. Help us raise £20k to create 6 new Queer Britain displays for 2026 Donate to enter & win queer prizes: Mighty Hoopla tickets, art, books + more. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qb-displays #QueerHistory #LGBTQ

COMING SOON We’re so excited to announce our upcoming exhibition and our first-ever artist installation: Top by Claye Bowler. Top explores Claye’s seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery. 🗓 10 Sept – 23 Nov @clayebowler.bsky.social

🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back. ➡️

RECORDING: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums by Kids in Museums on cademy.io

This is a recording of a session which took place on Zoom on Thursday 3 July 2025. Are you interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? About this…

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⌛ The deadline for applications is this Friday, 15 August! Proposals welcome for LGBTQ+ heritage projects and papers – from all career levels, in the UK and internationally.

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📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2025 🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025 We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces. 📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025 📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025

📣 New Job Opportunity! 📣 Home Live Art is looking for a coordinator to support a queer and community-led project at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery in 2026. 🗂 Job type: Freelance, fixed-term, part-time 🕒 Start date: 1 Nov 2025 📍 Location: Hastings 📅 Deadline: 1 Sep 2025 📲 More info below!

Job Opportunity: Exhibition and Events Coordinator — Home Live Art — Home Live Art

Application deadline: 23:59 on on Monday 1 September 2025

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PRIDE RECAP Pride Month is Queer Christmas for us and this year we have been as busy as ever! We started pride month with the launch of our 20 Years of UK Black Pride exhibition and honoured Terry Higgins 80th birthday with the Terry Higgins Trust AIDS Memorial Quilt. – Images From Queer Britain

📣 Call for Papers: QHCN Symposium 2025 🗓️ 25-26 Nov 2025 We're inviting proposals from heritage professionals, researchers, artists & community organisers working with queer collections, stories & spaces. 📥 Deadline: 15 Aug 2025 📌 Full details & how to apply: queerhcn.org/symposiums/symposium-2025

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

Interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? This online training session run by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social will address the challenges museums face when creating LGBTQ+ content for children and families. 📅 3 Jul, 10:00-12.30 👇🏻 Link to sign up

Training - Kids in Museums

We provide a range of training events and consultancy for the museum sector in the UK and internationally - our new summer programme is available to book now.

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Pride season is in full swing! 🌈 Are you planning to visit any LGBTQ+ exhibitions or cultural events? Drop your recommendations below 👇 We’ll kick things off! 20 YEARS OF UK BLACK PRIDE, Queer Britain (4 Jun-31 Aug) The exhibition chronicles the evolution of UK Black Pride: queerbritain.org.uk

News | New toolkit provides advice on integrating queer narratives in heritage spaces – free resource advises heritage workers on how to explore LGBTQ+ themes in historic sites @queerhcn.org

New toolkit provides advice on integrating queer narratives in heritage spaces - Museums Association

Free resource advises heritage workers on how to explore LGBTQ+ themes in historic sites

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