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Training for Museum Mentors: Supporting Museums through Financial Uncertainty
Training for Museum Mentors: Supporting Museums through financial uncertainty London Museum Development and South East Museum Development have teamed up to offer training for professionals…
Meet the Funder #2 National Lottery Heritage Fund
Purpose: These ‘Meet the Funder’ sessions have been designed by South East Museum Development to be an ongoing series of introductory sessions with frequent funders…
Conservation Basics
What’s the best way to care for museum collections? How can we safely handle museum objects? What cleaning can we do - and when should…
Practical Approaches to Insect and Pest Management
As spring approaches it is the time to start thinking about insect pests. This training will help you identify which insects could be eating your…
Hazards in collections (with a focus on mould)
Hazardous materials, such as asbestos and mercury, form part of many different types of cultural heritage and can sometimes go unnoticed until a problem arises. …
Making online content work for you
Can museums make any money from online content? In this session we will hear from three very different museums about the ways in which…
Hallmarks at Home – Managing people through change, AIM
As the national and local picture for the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change, it’s very clear that the cultural sector will continue to face unprecedented…
Do We Really Want To Bounce Back?
Facilitated by Cultural Baggage and Soundcastle, and supported by the East Sussex Arts Partnership and South Downs National Park Authority, join them online on the…
Writing your Documentation Policy and Putting it into Practice.
This online session will provide an overview on writing an effective documentation policy, and putting it into practice through your Documentation Plan. Confused about the…
Coffee Chat: Museum Retail
The next Museum Coffee Chat will take place on Thursday 10th December at 2.30 - 3.30, focussing on retail opportunities in museums. This peer group…
Emergency Planning
We know that starting or updating an Emergency Plan can be overwhelming. Creating an Emergency Plan is something that can be pushed to the bottom…
Supporting Health and Wellbeing of Staff in Museums
The coronavirus pandemic and resulting restrictions have had an impact on everyone’s wellbeing, including those working in museums and heritage organisations. This webinar, in partnership…
Finding Opportunities for Local Authority-funded Museums in a Cold Climate
For those museums run or largely funded by local authorities, 2021-22 presents a challenging year in which to demonstrate your museum’s impact. Local authorities need…
Networking and Forming Partnerships Online
Online (Zoom) This short course delivered by our Museum Development Colleagues in London, will support participants to form effective partnerships and work with other organisations…
Environmental Monitoring and Control during Covid-19
Environmental monitoring and control play an important role in collections care. Many of our historic collections are susceptible to damage from incorrect or fluctuating humidity.…
Deep Cleaning during Covid-19
Covid-19 has taken a toll on museum collections. During lockdown, limited access to collections and restrictions on staff and volunteer capacity (owing to furloughing and…
Fundraising – The Case For Support
SEMDP have commissioned experienced sector support agency: ‘Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy‘ to deliver two short online courses For our South East museums covering key fundraising…
Fundraising – A Perfect Fit
SEMDP have commissioned experienced sector support agency: ‘Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy‘ to deliver two short online courses For our South East museums covering key fundraising…
Strategic Marketing Planning
This training session is part of a series of training with the Arts Marketing Association looking at a specific area of audience engagement. Sign up…
Understanding Google Analytics
This training session is part of a series of training with the Arts Marketing Association looking at a specific area of audience engagement. Sign up…
PR Demystified
This training session is part of a series of training with the Arts Marketing Association looking at a specific area of audience engagement. Sign up…
Making the Most of your social media
This training session is part of a series of training with the Arts Marketing Association looking at a specific area of audience engagement. Sign up…
Re-engaging with your audiences
This training session is part of a series of training with the Arts Marketing Association looking at a specific area of audience engagement. Sign up…
Creating Family Friendly Interactions in Museums during the New Normal
Wednesday 21 October, 10.30am-12.30pm & Thursday 22 October, 10.30am-12.30pm Ensuring interactions are friendly between people working in visitor facing museum roles and families has never…
Top tips for Impactful Organic and Paid Social Media
If you have a small or non-existent marketing budget, it’s likely that you already rely heavily on social media to promote your museum. But are…
Boosting Spend per Head : Making the Most of your Museum Shop
With reduced visitor numbers and a degree of uncertainty over the next few months, how can we maximise the spend in our museum shops? This…
Visitor Experience in the ‘New Normal’
How do museums build up public confidence in museums as places to visit (using digital engagement to build up to physical visits)? How do visitor…
Meet the Funder #1 Arts Council England
In this session we will explore the Arts Councils support for the Museums sector during the period of reset. In particular we will discuss the…
School Engagement in the ‘New Normal’
How do museums build up school confidence in museums as places to visit? How do school offers need to develop to create a good experience,…
Marketing Webinar: Post-lockdown marketing and audience engagement
As museums begin to reopen, this marketing webinar will explore how cultural and heritage attractions from small to large are approaching marketing in the post…
Returning to Volunteering
As the cultural sector re-opens over the coming weeks and months, volunteering will be top of many museums’ agendas. Many of us will be wondering…
Managing People Through Uncertain Times
Whilst lockdown may be easing and the cultural sector is gradually re-opening, most museums know that the tricky times aren’t over. With unpredictable visitor numbers,…
Income Diversification
How can museums diversify their income and meet the needs of a more local audience? This webinar gives some practical advice on setting up a…
Ready to Re-Open: museum sector guidance and top tips
An informal zoom session for Sussex museum staff, volunteers and trustees. If your museum is planning to re-open soon, please join us. About this Event…
Ready to Re-Open: museum sector guidance and top tips
An informal zoom session for Surrey museum staff, volunteers and trustees. If your museum is planning to re-open soon, please join us. About this Event…
Creating a Family Friendly Environment on Reopening
What concerns do families have about returning to museums? How can you create a welcoming environment for your family visitors? Museums are operating in a…
Windrush Waves
A WEEK OF COMMEMORATION Windrush Waves 2020 is part of BCA's recognition of Windrush Day which takes place every year on June 22. On this…
Five Online Conservation Webinars from The Lincoln Conservation Team
The Lincoln Conservation Team are offering a series of free, interactive and informative Online Webinars throughout July 2020. Each session is 1 hour in length,…
Mentoring Museums in a Crisis
Delivery: Online, via Zoom Do you support another, smaller museum voluntarily through mentoring or are you interested in doing so in the near…
AIM’S Virtual Conference ‘Roads to Recovery’ 18 & 19 June 2020
https://www.aim-museums.co.uk/virtual-conference/ AIM’s first virtual conference will consider the challenges and impact of C-19 outbreak on the museum and cultural sector. Day One (Thursday 18 June)…
Digital Access and Inclusion for your visitors: Producing content
Tutors/speakers: Becki Morris – Disability Collaborative Network (DCN) & Sarah Simcoe EMBED Digital inclusive practice is a vital tool in all organisations, no matter what…
Supporting disabled visitors in the post-COVID world
Tutors/speakers: Becki Morris Disability Collaborative Network (DCN) and Sarah Simcoe EMBED Customer Service within any organisation is typically the first point of contact for your…
Online Forum: Communications considerations for reopening your museum following lockdown
25 June 2020 Format: online forum (Zoom) Join arts marketing communications consultant, Jo Finn, for a 60-minute online forum to unpick the communications challenges we…
Business Planning in a Crisis
A training session via Zoom Having reacted swiftly to Covid 19 museums are now starting to regroup and consider the new, and possibly different, future.…
Business Recovery Training
Full Cost Recovery: A training session via Zoom Full Cost Recovery means securing funding for all the costs involved in running a museum activity or project.…
Getting to Know your Online Audiences
— The data driven approach This webinar will show you how to effectively capture data on your audiences and help you decide on the most…
PR on a Shoestring
— A practical guide to catching the media’s attention This webinar will show you how to create impactful PR campaigns that build effective relationships with…
Writing About Photography: unlocking stories from the archives to create press releases for your collections
Tom Seymour – Writer Thursday 7th May 2 – 4pm Free, donations gratefully received The workshop will include a comfort break and Q&A. About the…
‘What do prospective visitors want from your attraction when you re-open’ Webinar & ‘Retail for Visitor Attractions in a time of social distancing’ Webinar
'What do prospective visitors want from your attraction when you re-open', Thursday 30th April, at 10am. This will be ALVA in conversation with Steve Mills of Decision House, formerly of BDRC.…
ALVA Digital seminar this Thursday with Deeson ‘Visitors attractions go digital’.
How do the UK's leading visitor attractions use their websites and other digital channels to engage their audiences and fulfil their mission, now that they’re…
Free Emergency Funding Bid-Writing Surgeries for South East Museums
To help museums respond quickly with applications to the emergency funding schemes from Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, and Historic England we are offering free,…
Free Webinar: Heritage, Health & Wellbeing
As the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance South East Museums Champion, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge invites you to join us for a…
Barkcloth Basics: Interpreting and Understanding Pacific Barkcloth
The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, Friday 17 April 2020 Time: 10h00 – 16h30 Places available: 10 The University of Glasgow’s AHRC-funded…
Conservation Basics, Isle of Wight
This event has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this alongside the next meeting of the Isle of Wight Forum Carisbrooke Castle Museum, Carisbrooke, Newport,…
Hampshire Military Museums Network
The next Hampshire Military Museums Network will be taking place on Thursday 5th March 2020 10 - 4pm. at the Army Flying Museum. You are…
Touring Exhibitions Group (TEG) Marketplace 2020
PEOPLE’S HISTORY MUSEUM, MANCHESTER 30 APRIL – 1 MAY Join colleagues nationwide for one or two days of networking and inspiration at the UK’s principal…
Care of Textile Collections
Caring for a Textile Collection, Chilcomb House, Winchester, SO23 8RB Event Date: Monday 9 March 2020 10:00 am — 1pm This half day course intends…
Alcohol Specimen Conservation Training
Training Outcomes: Participants will learn the basics of understanding the biomechanics of fluid preservation, including how to re-hydrate dried-out material., mounting specimens in jars using…
Sharing Afternoon
South East Museum Development Programme invites you to join us for a sharing afternoon on 6th February 2020. Showcasing the best projects and initiatives in…
Digital Storytelling with a Collections Focus
Digital Storytelling with a Collections Focus Friday 14 February, 10am - 4.30pm Museum of London, Docklands A partnership event between South East Museum Development, Culture24…
NHLF Large Bid Training Afternoon
YWCA, The Bridge, London This National Lottery Heritage Fund workshop is for museums looking to apply for a grant of over £250,000 through the National…
Caring for a Textile Collection, Maidstone Museum
This day course intends to be an introduction to the basics of caring for a textile (or textile-based) collection. Topics covered will include; - An…
Museum Development Forum – Berkshire, Hampshire, Solent
Location: Action Stations, Portsmouth. Join us for our annual event to find out the latest news and trends in the sub region. Don’t miss this…
Museum Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum – Tools and Tips for Better Ways of Working
Sir Daniel Gooch Theatre, STEAM, Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon This event, organised jointly by the South East & South West Museum Development…
First Annual Kent Medway Museum Conference
The first annual conference for Kent and Medway museums, organised by the Kent Medway NPO museum partnership and the South East Museum Development Programme, will…
Museum Constitutions and How to Amend Them, Crawley
Trainer Helen Harvie Date / Time Monday 2 March 2020, 1.30pm – 4.30pm Location Crawley Museum, Crawley Plan your journey http://crawleymuseums.org/crawley-museum/ Is your Museum’s constitution…
Exhibition Planning no.2: ‘Design & Installation’, The Lightbox
10.30am - 15.30pm. Arrival at 10.30am, first speaker starts at 10.45am. A light Lunch will be provided. This will be an introductory look at the…
Exhibition Planning no.2: ‘Design & Installation’, The Ashmolean
10.30am - 15.30pm. Arrival at 10.30am, first speaker starts at 10.45am. A light Lunch will be provided. This will be an introductory look at the…
Heritage Crime Forum
West Mercia Police and The Churches Conservation Trust are delighted to host guests from across the heritage and ecclesiastical sectors for their inaugural Heritage Crime…
Reap the Rewards: Benefiting from Rural Networks, Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont Saint Peter
Do you want to feel more confident about using your rural collection in a greater range of stories and activities, creating a better visitor experience?…
Working with Archaeological Collections – FREE SMA Workshop
Are you a non-specialist working or volunteering with archaeological collections and archives? Would you like to learn more about how to manage archaeological material and…
Leading a Digitally Literate Museum
Museum of London What will be covered? Is your museum leadership team confident when it comes to digital? Are they as digitally literate as our…
Accreditation and Spectrum 5.0 – the basics, The Longley Room
Location: The Longley Room, Crawley Library, Southgate Ave, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 6HG Additional info: http://www.crawley.gov.uk/pw/Learning/Libraries/ This session, led by Sarah Brown (Collections Trust), will…
Joint Funding Workshop – Arts Council and National Lottery Heritage Fund, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery This workshop (repeated in 3 locations) is intended for staff, trustees and volunteers from all sizes of museum. If you…
Family Friendly Museums : See your offer for families thrive!
Thursday 28th November 2019, 10.30am-3.45pm Location : Tunbridge Wells This one-day training event will offer ideas, hints and practical low cost tips on developing your…
Accreditation for Beginners, Huguenot Museum
Trainer Sarah Brown, Collections Trust; Kate Hebditch, SEMDP Date / Time Workshop 1: 10.30-1.00 Accreditation for beginners Could Museum Accreditation benefit my museum? Come and…
Bring your collections to life: be part of the Big Draw Festival
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The a-n launch Exhibition Payment Guidance for Museums working with Visual Artists
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Caring for Plastic collections
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