Training and events

Industrial Heritage Brew Up!
Yorkshire Industrial Collections Network – Brew up In these challenging times it is important that we have a chance to keep in touch to share issues impacting on our sector and to support one another. After the success of the first Brew Up we will be meeting again on Skype for Business at 15:00 on […]

Elevenses – Thursday 7th May
Join Liz and Jo for Elevenses on Thursday 7th May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We are going to focus on the topic of Users and their Experiences, but we won’t have an agenda. This […]

Audience Research and Covid-19: Opportunity or obstacle?
This webinar, hosted by Ecsite, will help organisations develop a strategic and socially responsible approach to audience research during this pandemic. Understanding our audiences has never been more important. As our organisations adjust to a new reality, we need audience research to help us develop new models of engaging the public remotely; predict visitor numbers […]

Elevenses – Monday 11th May
Join Alan and Dieter for Elevenses on Monday 11th May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We are going to focus on the topic of Managing Collections, but we won’t have an agenda. This will be […]

Elevenses – Thursday 14th May
Join Michael and Jo for Elevenses on Thursday 14th May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. This will be an informal get together, to share experiences and thinking, and enjoy some different company! There’s no agenda, […]

Elevenses – Monday 18th May
Join Michael and Dieter for Elevenses on Monday 18th May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We are going to focus on the topic of Organisational Health, but we won’t have an agenda. This will be […]

Elevenses – Thursday 21st May
Join Alan and Jo for Elevenses on Thursday 21st May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. This will be an informal get together, to share experiences and thinking, and enjoy some different company! There’s no agenda, […]

Elevenses – Thursday 28th May
Join Liz and Alan for Elevenses on Thursday 28th May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We are going to focus on the topic of Users and their Experiences, but we won’t have an agenda. This […]

Writing About Photography
Writing About Photography: unlocking stories from the archives to create press releases for your collections About the Online Workshop: This is a (virtual) hands-on workshop on writing about photography for publication. Anyone who works with photographic collections knows that there are great stories hidden in the archives just waiting to be written about. In this […]

Collections Care in Lockdown: 5 weeks on
Collections Trust are running a livestream Q&A session with the collections care panel meeting to discuss developments over the last 5 weeks, new resources, and to answer more of your questions. The event will be streamed live via the Collections Trust YouTube channel on Tuesday 12 May from 14:00 BST. If you can’t join live, […]