Bravo to Derby Museums for some refreshing honesty about how objects end up in #museum collections

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Review DMWorldCulture in Museums Association Journal “This gallery is a Triumph” Really pleased for our team past and present Andrea Hadley-Johnson Richard Tailby Jane Bevan @Rachelcurator Paul x and all our co-producers (make yrselves known!)

Thank you Claire Cutts FRSA Joe Clark V21 Artspace for this beautiful tour of the gallery, opening museums to everyone

Wherever you are in the world today, explore virtually 'Objects of Love, Hope and Fear: A World Cultures Collection' v21artspace.com/world-cultures… Intl. #MuseumDay Derby Museums DMWorldCulture #3D #virtual #gallery #culture #culturematters #museum #objects #IMD2019 Happy Museum

Tag someone fighting for better representation in the museum, art gallery or heritage sector that we should know about and follow 👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿

Yesterday we welcomed MEG to our #DMWorldCultures gallery for a discussion on the role regional museums can play in advocating restitution and repatriation. Some interesting discussion with case studies from Tony Eccles and @InbalHarding

Here's a short blog post about my recent work recreating parts of Derby Museums in LEGO using the brilliant free software by BrickLink. I'll be running a workshop showing visitors how to make their own designs this week on Wed 24th. #LEGO #museums #MOC atdrawsink.com/blog/making-a-…

We are looking to do some visitor research on our #DMWorldCultures gallery. Do you have a theme of the exhibition that you would be particularly interested to find out more about? Please RT so we can a wider scope of the Twitter universe, much appreciated! #Museums

please if you have a minute, do our survey! #dmworldcultures

DMWorldCulture University of Derby School of Arts Decolonising museums and accountibility by British institutions that upheld and benefitted from colonialism. Platforming Black/brown/queer/trans archives and archivists in recording local and national history of marginalised groups. #queeringspace #decolonisingmuseums

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"Collaborative leadership needs people who can be open, flexible and responsive." Our CEO, Emmie Kell, has put together 10 tips for making collaborative leadership work 🤝 You can read more here; artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/327/c… Arts Professional @emmiekell

THREAD (a reading list for white museum folk, by non-white museum folk) Some of my fellow white museum workers have shared that they discovered this Dr. Porchia Moore's "Cartography: a Black woman’s response to museums in the time of racial uprising" via No Longer Active on this Platform's newsletter...

It's finally here! We are very proud to announce the launch of the very first UK #southasianheritagemonth with this incredible collaboration between @hussainManawer anita rani and Niraj Chag with poem ‘I have a question’. #Launchday

Booking now open for the Int'l Women's Day #Derby event 'Anonymous was a woman; where is Derby's HERstory?' featuring Laura Phillips, our Head of Interpretation and Display. We're really looking forward to this one! Book here: iwdderbyherstory.eventbrite.co.uk