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Group for Education in Museums 2009 Conference

GEM (Group For Education in Museums) 2009 Conference is “Engaging Diverse Communities” and is being held Tuesday 8 September - Friday 11 September 2009  at Aston University, Birmingham
What is community engagement? Why engage communities and how best can the heritage sector develop mutually-beneficial relationships? This conference will help heritage learning professionals develop ideas, strategies and [...]

Object Lessons

The next New Object Lessons series will start on 01/06/09 (2pm - 5pm, Wai Chinese Women Society, Manchester £5) with a workshop entitled Peace Concluded, a follow up to Gunchester (05/02/09, The Manchester Museum). The primary theme will be conflict + conflict-resolution with a special focus on the Crimean War. To book a place, [...]

Website Launch

This is the brand new Embracing Difference website. Launched in October 2008 to mark the completion of Heritage Link’s two year diversity programme, it includes project stories, case studies, guidance and tools to show why diversity matters, what heritage has to offer people and to link people and places.

Welcome

A unique programme broadening understanding of diversity and helping people to develop inspirational heritage projects.

The website reports on Heritage Link’s two year diversity programme which completed in August. The programme ran across five regions, bringing together smaller voluntary heritage and community groups, building confidence in working together to broaden their audiences. It encouraged creativity, informal learning, networking and mutual understanding. Five projects were developed and supported as exemplars.

Embracing Difference, funded by English Heritage, has been a unique and groundbreaking achievement: hugely creative and yet very practical. It has fulfilled one of Heritage Link’s key objectives to increase the capacity of member organisations. This programme has challenged us all to extend our commitment to diversity and shown the many innovative and different ways in which it can be done.