Just back from an excellent few days at AIM Conference in Newark. In no particular order, a few highlights for me were: Catching up with friends and colleagues old and new - AIM conference is fab for this - super friendly and relaxed Hearing from some of our AIM Biffa Award History Makers projects and … Continue reading AIM Conference 2019 highlights

Whilst many of us will have had the 29th of March in mind as significant day in the ongoing Brexit saga, for me and quite a few others it was all about celebrating another project that did manage to complete on time. It was a real pleasure to be in Stoke Mandeville for the launch … Continue reading National Paralympic Heritage Centre

Great to hear the news last month that Weymouth Museum have been successful in securing a development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to develop proposals for their site at Brewers Quay. The volunteer team there have persevered for some time against the odds to keep the museum open and the collections of the … Continue reading Congratulations Weymouth Museum

Really excited to be launching into 2019 having just worked on a couple of great projects - one giving out grants and one receiving. Just before Christmas the AIM Biffa Award History Makers panel met to distribute the final grants in this £1M fund to support the creation of new exhibitions telling the stories of … Continue reading New Year, New Projects, New Funding

We did it! With the amazing support, help, hard work and expertise of the staff and volunteers, the collections of Trowbridge Museum are now safely into secure, temporary storage for the next couple of years whilst the major museum refit takes place. Our target was to have everything out or protected on site by the … Continue reading Trowbridge Museum is empty

I thought I'd use this post to give a plug to one of the museum's I mentor - Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury. Never ones to rest on their laurels, last year the 100% volunteer run museum completed a successful fundraising campaign and were able to purchase a disused Moravian Church in the town, The last … Continue reading Athelstan Museum opens the Moravian Church, Malmesbury

I've been really enjoying working with Bridport Museum as a collections consultant, supporting the small staff team and volunteers, first with their HLF funded museum redisplay and then on various other projects. Last month I played a very small part in helping them plan and deliver an ambitious exhibition of costumes and textiles. I wanted … Continue reading Bridport Undressed

After years of planning and fundraising, last month saw Trowbridge Museum closing it's doors for the final time in it's current guise. It will now reopen in 2020, bigger and better. The staff and volunteers have lost no time in getting to grips with dismantling the displays ready for packing and moving into storage whilst … Continue reading Trowbridge Museum Closed (but in a good way!)

The third and final round of the AIM Biffa Award History Makers grant programme is now open for Expressions of Interest. Eligible organisations can apply for grants of up to £90,000 to create new exhibitions telling the inspirational stories of their chosen history maker. Successful projects will show how the life and work of the … Continue reading Does your museum have a History Maker?

Last month I had the great pleasure of attending the opening events for two of the new exhibitions which have been funded through the AIM Biffa Award History Makers programme. I've been project managing this programme for AIM since it started and it was so lovely to see the first exhibitions come to life. There … Continue reading History Makers are go!