Just received a Comms Toolkit where every Social Media post template begins "We're proud/pleased/excited to announce/support/host..."
Did that twitter account that called that sort of thing out die in vain? Did nobody listen to @adamkoszary.bsky.social at @museumsassociation.org #Museums2025?
A large cavernous hall with people milling around and talking to one another. Blue and red lights illuminate walls at the far end.
A large white tall imposing building at the top of a hill with steep stairs leading up to it, running from right to left in the photo.
Cardiff castle’s exterior walls lit with a blue light. They are very tall with several square towers at various points. Grass is in front with a short chain fence running along a path in the bottom left.
Had a wonderful time in Cardiff this week for the @museumsassociation.org conference. Met some wonderful people and hung out with some familiar faces (thanks @sachacoward.bsky.social for a great after after party each night). Fantastic insights from across UK museums too.
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Delegates explore the library at National Museum Cardiff
Well, our day of tours around Cardiff and South Wales has now finished! Thanks for sticking around with us and we hope you enjoyed making the most of our final day in this wonderful city.
Safe travels home, everyone 👋
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A person takes a picture of a wall of testimonies about what perthyn/belonging means to people in Cardiff
Perthyn — Belonging at the Museum of Cardiff 🫂
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A variety of small rock samples with their documentation cards
People gather around a work bench in a museum lab space
Taking a look at the studio lab #Museums2025
A group of people sits across benches in a tiled waiting area at Big Pit National Coal Museum
Waiting for our underground tour at Big Pit National Coal Museum 🔦
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People gather around a statue in central Cardiff while a man stands to speak to the group
Starting our walking tour around Cardiff with @thewallich.bsky.social 🥾
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Karen Harris sits in a wheelchair and gestures towards a woolly mammoth statue at National Museum Cardiff
A crowd of conference delegates assembles outside the entrance pillars at National Museum Cardiff
Behind the scenes at National Museum Cardiff with Karen Harris, who installed the original mammoth at the discovery in Shropshire 📍
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Got time for a tour? #Museums2025 🗺️
Whether you’re joining us in Cardiff today or not, take a few minutes to watch our newly commissioned video tour of St Fagans which premiered at the start of this year’s conference.
Sit back and let your guide Gareth show you around 👇
A colourful scarf and a floral metal water bottle
One last message on #Museums2025 for the evening: please get in touch if this is your lost property!
If you’re already getting excited about next year’s big catch-up, save the date: we’ll be landing at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Library of Birmingham on 2-5 November 2026. We already know it’ll be worth the wait!
Thanks again everybody — we’ll see you next time 👋
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And don't forget that this isn’t the end of #Museums2025! We’ve got a packed day of tours for in-person delegates tomorrow – check the app or our website to see what’s on. Some tours are fully booked, but the rest are first come, first served.
Sain Ffagan sign at the entrance to St Fagans National Museum of History
That’s a wrap on sessions at St Fagans for #Museums2025! 🎬
We’ve had a wonderful two days on-site with you, discussing how community, solidarity and friendship can bring people together at a time of uncertainty and division.
Lifebuoy with a label, "am I clean and tidy?" mirror in the centre, with a selfie by a white woman with long brown hair.
Inside of a Victorian classroom, light green walls, panelling. The teacher is at a blackboard in the far left corner, and in front of her is a row of museum delegates. On the wall is a map of Wales
Keeping it Clean and Tidy with a Victorian School Experience at St Fagan's for #Museums2025
With so much social, political and economic upheaval, what are the key challenges facing museums and galleries in 21st-century Britain?
It’s almost time for our final session! Join us in the Atrium now to reflect on this year’s conference and look ahead to what’s next.
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Just retweeting my earlier question as still looking for the answer - does anyone at #Museums2025 know?
A photo of Margaret's foot- jeans hiked yo expose an orange Welsh tapestry patterned sock in a brown dress shoe
When in Cymru #Museums2025
Low pay in the museum sector has a detrimental impact on workforce attraction, retention and wellbeing.
Led by @tamsincrussell.bsky.social, we’ll be exploring how to redress poor pay and implement more equitable pay policies in our next session in the lecture theatre at 3.20pm 💷
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Our Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, supports the development of groundbreaking health and wellbeing programmes in UK museums.
If you want to hear about some of the nine projects recently awarded grants, head to Stiwdio 3 at 3.00pm 🌱
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If you’re enjoying Empowering voices and finding out about the Young Curators project at the Museum of Cardiff, come along to our closing party at the museum tonight to see the exhibition, Voices of Grangetown, for yourself 📍
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A complete coincidence that this gathering of English Civic Museums Network colleagues was outside a pub #museums2025 @museumsassociation.org
Almost time for our keynote to open day two of sessions, Solidarity in action.
Join us for a panel on responding to the rise of the far right and populist politics, drawing on observations from the United States and looking at how museums and museum workers are strategising.
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Good morning and welcome to day two of MA Conference 2025! 🌻
We're back on site at St Fagans and ready to network, learn and get inspired.
If you're with us in person or online, what are you most looking forward to today?
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News | Winners of Museums Change Lives Awards 2025 announced in Cardiff — Birmingham Museums Trust awarded best project for citizens' jury initiative
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Museum gallery called "Cymru... / Wales is..." with a display of LGBTQ+-themed objects around the theme "Wales is... proud"
Ladies of Llangollen teapot The most famous lesbian couple in Welsh history. They often feature on Welsh costume souvenirs.
Rainbow Football v Homophobia football, signed by the Cymru Women's team, 2023
Framed photographs (most of them black-and-white) depicting Welsh everyday life. Two of them include a gay couple.
The queer tour of St Fagans was my personal highlight of the MA Conference so far! Lovely to see a PERMANENT queer display in such a prominent spot in the gallery 🩷 #Museums2025
We don't know if we've mentioned it, but our AGM and Museums Change Lives Awards start in ten minutes ⏰
Join us in the Atrium or online at 4.30pm – we'll be reflecting on the last year, announcing the results of our AGM voting and revealing our fabulous MCL award-winners! 🏆
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Still with us? We’re learning a bit more about Birmingham Museums Trust’s citizens’ jury at ‘Deliberately deliberative’ in the Atrium 📍
Another Museums Change Lives Awards project, it’s helping build excitement for our AGM and awards ceremony at 4.30pm 👀
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