The annual Museums Association conference will be held at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds from 12-14 November 2024 on "The Joy of Museums".
This year’s conference is celebrating the innovation, inventiveness and creativity that make our museums such incredible places. We face many challenges as a sector and society, yet museums continue to deliver transformative experiences that have a deep and lasting impact on people’s lives. Our work with our communities is more important than ever – and it is worth celebrating and advocating for. Whether it is our engaging learning programmes, inspiring exhibitions or innovative community engagement projects, we are committed to offering inclusive, welcoming and engaging spaces.
The conference looks at how the museum sector continues to innovate, working closely with communities to use our collections to tell new stories, developing productive partnerships and embracing the opportunities created by new technology. It will explore how museums of all types and sizes are having a real impact on society, improving health and wellbeing, creating better places to live and work and offering spaces for debate and reflection. It will also discuss the importance of ethics – and how values such as inclusivity, equity and social justice bring communities together at a time of increasing intolerance and division, and we’ll explore how museums at the heart of their communities can help people to better understand themselves and others.
Price: 550 GBP (Member full registration); 270 GBP (Concession full registration); single day and digital access fees also available