#SHCG2025

Our final speaker of #SHCG2025 is Aaakanksha Tated, using the partition of India: Pakistan as a case study of engagement in museums dealing with difficult pasts.

Onwards to @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social and its fostering of long-term community-group relationships. #SHCG2025

Next Roman Sebastyański, a Doctoral Researcher at the University of The West of Scotland takes us (metaphorically) to the Gdansk Shipyard in Poland. #SHCG2025

We begin day two of #SHCG2025 with @vmillar.bsky.social from National Museums Northern Ireland and Jonathan Mattison and David Cargo from the Museum of Orange History on reawakening the Hand and Pen Orange Hall at @ulsterfolkmuseum.org (www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/stories/hand...).

We're finishing up day one of #SHCG2025 with a talk on the Lascar Heritage project by Glasgow Life Museums, begun in 2021, followed by a Q&A.

Our penultimate session looks at the Derby Yaadaañ Archive Project on the South Asian diaspora by @derbymuseums.bsky.social and @derbyshiredro.bsky.social. #SHCG2025

Drumroll please for our #SHCG2025 keynote session, 'Curating Communities : What Are We Really Asking?', looking at moving beyond the guest : host museum : community relationships, with representatives from @nationaltrust.org.uk, The National Archives and two freelancers.

Next up, three of the team at @ucllccos.bsky.social 's Petrie Museum on twenty years of its interactions with Sudan's past and present. #SHCG2025

Kicking off #SHCG2025 with Shakshi Singh taking us through the past, present and future of the Pankhurst Centre and its shift from activist hub to museum. #womenshistory

SHCG Conference 2025: Curating Communities Join us at the SHCG Conference 2025 to learn about curating community through case studies, presentations and plenty of time for questions!

Today's the day! Join us at 1pm today for day 1 of our annual conference, this year on Curating Communities - tickets still available at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shcg-confe... and don't forget to hashtag us! #SHCG2025