Resources

Museocycle Terms and Conditions

Terms of Use for Museocycle – our museum-focused recycling scheme encouraging Northern museums to give away unwanted display, storage and other equipment to other museums, to avoid material going to landfill.

A Sky Garden

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery – A Sky Garden and rolling out Carbon Literacy Training

Seeds for Action: Dippy on Tour

Touchstones Rochdale – The Dippy on Tour exhibition, an installation of over 1000 knitted bees, and the start of climate action work

Seeds for Action: A Space to Be

Scarborough Museums & Galleries A Space to Be – a community space with sustainability at its heart, including activities exploring nature, supporting discussion and debate

Seeds for Action: Greening the Museum

REME Museum – Greening the Museum through creating a wildflower garden and ‘Dig for Victory’ vegetable patch

Seeds for Action: The Flood Tapestry Project

Quaker Tapestry Museum – The Flood Tapestry Project, creating a way for the people to share their experience of the Storm Desmond flooding, and to celebrate community resilience

Seeds for Action: Eco-Sewing Circle

Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre – an Eco-Sewing Circle of community volunteers making quilted covers as an alternative to bubble wrap for protecting plinth lids in storage

Contemporary Collecting Toolkit, 2019

This toolkit is an introduction to contemporary collecting for museum staff, volunteers and trustees who don’t have direct experience of acquiring recent material and who want to understand the basics. It aims to provide advice and guidance on how to undertake contemporary collecting projects, outlining some of the practical considerations that need to be taken into account.

Money Matters – a toolkit for teachers

A creative teaching and learning resource commissioned by the Harris Museum’s Money Matters project and Curious Minds.

Worth The Investment

This publication showcases the work happening with numismatic collections in the North West since 2013.