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Ideas and resources from our 19th May LGBT focus event @Mosi, Celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia
written by Chrissy Partheni The NWFED is committed to promoting equality and human rights issues in museum and heritage practices and offering a critical platform for new ideas and innovative work.  Given the range of recent projects on LGBTQI communities and histories across the North , our May event was an opportunity to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia and to bring different practitioners together to ...
Thu May 29
Northern museums featured in Inspired by writing competition
Manchester Museum, Museum of Liverpool, Imperial War Museum North, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston, St. Helen's Glass Museum and the Potteries Museum in Stoke on Trent are among the Northern museums featured in the stories selected for the writing competition Inspired by. The competition was launched at the MA conference in Nov 2013 offering the opportunity to selected writers to ...
Wed May 28
Special Feature: The Greater Manchester Police Museum
written by Chrissy Partheni Identifying your museum's unique offer, using small, specialised collections to engage imaginatively with your audiences and making the most of any available resources  are key factors  to any museum's success.  The Greater Manchester Police Museum does all the above well and has ambitious plans for the future. The museum is housed in a listed building which served as the headquarters of the Greater Manchester Police until its ...
Thu May 8