Shannen Johnson
@shannenjjohnson.bsky.social
Museum Education, Culture, Arts, Heritage. Cats, Wine, Mum to Lyra.
It's #GEMConference2025 eve! The team are busy prepping for and we are so excited to welcome delegates tomorrow! Who is joining us?
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's #GEMConference2025 eve! The team are busy prepping for and we are so excited to welcome delegates tomorrow! Who is joining us?
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📣 New GEM Training: Learning Strategy
Are you writing strategies for the first time or reviewing current strategies but wish to have a wider perspective? Then this online session is for you!
📅 Wednesday, October 22
📍 Online
🔗 Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-s...
#GEM #museumlearning
Are you writing strategies for the first time or reviewing current strategies but wish to have a wider perspective? Then this online session is for you!
📅 Wednesday, October 22
📍 Online
🔗 Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-s...
#GEM #museumlearning
August 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📣 New GEM Training: Learning Strategy
Are you writing strategies for the first time or reviewing current strategies but wish to have a wider perspective? Then this online session is for you!
📅 Wednesday, October 22
📍 Online
🔗 Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-s...
#GEM #museumlearning
Are you writing strategies for the first time or reviewing current strategies but wish to have a wider perspective? Then this online session is for you!
📅 Wednesday, October 22
📍 Online
🔗 Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-s...
#GEM #museumlearning
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If you're a museum educator (or interested in learning and education in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, etc), pinning the Museum Ed feed is a GREAT idea for reading & sharing relevant posts (& it'll pick up posts that include the #tag for the @gem.org.uk conference next week)
September 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you're a museum educator (or interested in learning and education in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, etc), pinning the Museum Ed feed is a GREAT idea for reading & sharing relevant posts (& it'll pick up posts that include the #tag for the @gem.org.uk conference next week)
Less than a week to go until @gem.org.uk #GEMConference2025 so excited to welcome delegates to Leeds. Some brilliant keynote speakers, practical workshops and an exciting trips programme showcasing West Yorkshire. Still time to book a ticket! gem.org.uk/training-and...
See you there?
See you there?
GEM Conference 2025 - GEM
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September 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Less than a week to go until @gem.org.uk #GEMConference2025 so excited to welcome delegates to Leeds. Some brilliant keynote speakers, practical workshops and an exciting trips programme showcasing West Yorkshire. Still time to book a ticket! gem.org.uk/training-and...
See you there?
See you there?
After 5 years, a pandemic and a baby, I am delighted to say I passed my Professional Review and I have now been awarded my AMA by @museumsassociation.org 🥳
Thank you to my former team at The Peace Museum, my current team @gem.org.uk, my wonderful mentor Julia Bryan and @tamsincrussell.bsky.social
Thank you to my former team at The Peace Museum, my current team @gem.org.uk, my wonderful mentor Julia Bryan and @tamsincrussell.bsky.social
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July 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
After 5 years, a pandemic and a baby, I am delighted to say I passed my Professional Review and I have now been awarded my AMA by @museumsassociation.org 🥳
Thank you to my former team at The Peace Museum, my current team @gem.org.uk, my wonderful mentor Julia Bryan and @tamsincrussell.bsky.social
Thank you to my former team at The Peace Museum, my current team @gem.org.uk, my wonderful mentor Julia Bryan and @tamsincrussell.bsky.social
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✨GEM Workshop: Community and Co-Design✨
Are you looking to effectively engage with communities? Join GEM and Beloved Adonai for a workshop on how to create sustainable partnerships.
📆 Tuesday, June 17, 10am - 12pm
📍Online
🔗 Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-worksh...
#GEM#museumlearning
Are you looking to effectively engage with communities? Join GEM and Beloved Adonai for a workshop on how to create sustainable partnerships.
📆 Tuesday, June 17, 10am - 12pm
📍Online
🔗 Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-worksh...
#GEM#museumlearning
May 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
✨GEM Workshop: Community and Co-Design✨
Are you looking to effectively engage with communities? Join GEM and Beloved Adonai for a workshop on how to create sustainable partnerships.
📆 Tuesday, June 17, 10am - 12pm
📍Online
🔗 Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-worksh...
#GEM#museumlearning
Are you looking to effectively engage with communities? Join GEM and Beloved Adonai for a workshop on how to create sustainable partnerships.
📆 Tuesday, June 17, 10am - 12pm
📍Online
🔗 Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-worksh...
#GEM#museumlearning
Brilliant day working from @gem.org.uk offices, exploring our archive and going on a brilliant 'Dockyard Mateys' tour at Chatham Historic Dockyard run by two lovely volunteers who used to work on the docks as part of #VolunteerWeek looking forward to exploring more tomorrow! #MuseumEd
June 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Brilliant day working from @gem.org.uk offices, exploring our archive and going on a brilliant 'Dockyard Mateys' tour at Chatham Historic Dockyard run by two lovely volunteers who used to work on the docks as part of #VolunteerWeek looking forward to exploring more tomorrow! #MuseumEd
A wonderful evening @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social to celebrate the opening of the Jameel Prize and the installation of the Reynolds on loan from the National Portrair Gallery as part or @bradford2025.co.uk 1/2
May 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A wonderful evening @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social to celebrate the opening of the Jameel Prize and the installation of the Reynolds on loan from the National Portrair Gallery as part or @bradford2025.co.uk 1/2
Being a working mum and travelling for work is challenging but luckily my little girl is obsessed with "choo choos" and nursery sent a learning story of Lyra playing with trains and telling her friends mummy goes on the choo choo for work. Just what I needed after such a busy few days! ❤️❤️❤️
May 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Being a working mum and travelling for work is challenging but luckily my little girl is obsessed with "choo choos" and nursery sent a learning story of Lyra playing with trains and telling her friends mummy goes on the choo choo for work. Just what I needed after such a busy few days! ❤️❤️❤️
Day 2 @museumsandheritage.com show! A full programme of @gem.org.uk talks, come find us in Theatre 3 and chat to the team at stand X6! #MuseumEd
May 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Day 2 @museumsandheritage.com show! A full programme of @gem.org.uk talks, come find us in Theatre 3 and chat to the team at stand X6! #MuseumEd
Great day at @museumsandheritage.com show with @gem.org.uk spoke to lots of museum people at different stages of their career and hosted a packed networking session. Looking forward to the talks tomorrow and catching up with more #MuseumEd pals!
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Great day at @museumsandheritage.com show with @gem.org.uk spoke to lots of museum people at different stages of their career and hosted a packed networking session. Looking forward to the talks tomorrow and catching up with more #MuseumEd pals!
Really looking forward to catching up with colleagues across the sector with @gem.org.uk - we have a stand in the sector support area, we're hosting a networking session tomorrow at 2pm and running a whole day of learning talks on Thursday in Theatre 3 - come say hello! #MuseumEd
We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Don't miss the biggest catch-up of the sector this May ✨ #MandHShow
70+ talks, 150+ exhibitors, sector support area, masterclass sessions and completely free to attend!
Register for your free pass here: museumsandheritage25.smartreg.co.uk/.../Register
70+ talks, 150+ exhibitors, sector support area, masterclass sessions and completely free to attend!
Register for your free pass here: museumsandheritage25.smartreg.co.uk/.../Register
May 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Really looking forward to catching up with colleagues across the sector with @gem.org.uk - we have a stand in the sector support area, we're hosting a networking session tomorrow at 2pm and running a whole day of learning talks on Thursday in Theatre 3 - come say hello! #MuseumEd
Thank you to the @octopus.energy engineer in Bradford who when my van obsessed daughter was stood at the window looking at his parked up van, he not only waved at her but came and gave her an octopus hat! She just loves vehicles and probably loves hats even more 🤣😍❤️
May 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thank you to the @octopus.energy engineer in Bradford who when my van obsessed daughter was stood at the window looking at his parked up van, he not only waved at her but came and gave her an octopus hat! She just loves vehicles and probably loves hats even more 🤣😍❤️
Thank you to all of the speakers at this session today. Everyone was so open in sharing their lived experiences, sharing their frustrations and their expertise. There is so much work to be done in this area but there's also so many people doing it! #Museums
Join us next week for All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums 🤝
You'll hear about what an anti-ableist museum might look like in practice, how to challenge and dismantle ableism in your museum, ways to elevate the perspectives of D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, and much more.
You'll hear about what an anti-ableist museum might look like in practice, how to challenge and dismantle ableism in your museum, ways to elevate the perspectives of D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, and much more.
All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums - Museums Association
Ableism – prioritising the needs of non-disabled people over disabled people – remains pervasive across the museum sector. Disabled people …
www.museumsassociation.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thank you to all of the speakers at this session today. Everyone was so open in sharing their lived experiences, sharing their frustrations and their expertise. There is so much work to be done in this area but there's also so many people doing it! #Museums
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Follow a load of awesome museum ed types from this starter pack (and let mw know if you're an awesome museum ed type who needs to be added): go.bsky.app/TmLZnrc
May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Follow a load of awesome museum ed types from this starter pack (and let mw know if you're an awesome museum ed type who needs to be added): go.bsky.app/TmLZnrc
Thank you to @teakayb.mathsy.space for providing some training on how to use BlueSky for @gem.org.uk area reps yesterday - I learned a lot too! Let's hope we can continue to build the learning #MuseumEd community on here! #MuseumLearning #GEM
May 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Thank you to @teakayb.mathsy.space for providing some training on how to use BlueSky for @gem.org.uk area reps yesterday - I learned a lot too! Let's hope we can continue to build the learning #MuseumEd community on here! #MuseumLearning #GEM
Really enjoyed delivering this workshop, some really insightful conversations and already thinking about how we can these these forward into meaningful action to support learning and evaluation colleagues
Delighted to be at London Transport Museum for the Visitor Studies Group conference 2025. We are running two workshops throughout the day with @jenniwaugh.bsky.social on what support learning colleagues need from evaluation and insight teams!
May 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Really enjoyed delivering this workshop, some really insightful conversations and already thinking about how we can these these forward into meaningful action to support learning and evaluation colleagues
Reposted by Shannen Johnson
Thank you to all who attended our workshops at Visitor Studies Group conference on what learning colleagues need support on when it comes to evaluation. Some important conversations and insights!
May 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Thank you to all who attended our workshops at Visitor Studies Group conference on what learning colleagues need support on when it comes to evaluation. Some important conversations and insights!
A glorious day yesterday with @gem.org.uk in Covent Garden and today I'm at London Transport Museum delivering workshops for the Visitor Studies Group Conference!
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A glorious day yesterday with @gem.org.uk in Covent Garden and today I'm at London Transport Museum delivering workshops for the Visitor Studies Group Conference!
Another day, another delayed train on a work trip. I have the worst luck, not sure how people who commute everyday do it. It's got to be better than this?!?
April 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Another day, another delayed train on a work trip. I have the worst luck, not sure how people who commute everyday do it. It's got to be better than this?!?
Reposted by Shannen Johnson
Together with project partners #GEM, we are holding two bespoke training sessions for museum learning professionals. Join us! Come away with inspiration and practical ideas for how you can make your museum and programmes richer and more #inclusive experiences for all visitors.
GEM Sensational Museum Training
Take part in 2 sessions to find out more about the Sensational Museum Project, hear case studies and gain inspiration for your practice
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April 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Together with project partners #GEM, we are holding two bespoke training sessions for museum learning professionals. Join us! Come away with inspiration and practical ideas for how you can make your museum and programmes richer and more #inclusive experiences for all visitors.
There’s still time to apply to be part of GEM Conference 2025: Sustaining our Practice, Sustaining Our World.
If you would like to deliver a presentations or workshop, please submit a proposal by Monday 28 April 2025.
Find out more: gem.org.uk/training-and...
#GEM #museumlearning #GEMconference
If you would like to deliver a presentations or workshop, please submit a proposal by Monday 28 April 2025.
Find out more: gem.org.uk/training-and...
#GEM #museumlearning #GEMconference
April 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Back to work after an extended break whilst my daughter had surgery. It's been a strange couple of weeks but looking forward to some normality and lots of exciting @gem.org.uk events to look forward to! #MusEd #GLAMEd
April 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Back to work after an extended break whilst my daughter had surgery. It's been a strange couple of weeks but looking forward to some normality and lots of exciting @gem.org.uk events to look forward to! #MusEd #GLAMEd
Can't be in Salford without a quick visit to Imperial War Museum North. Absolutely stunning exhibition 'Chila Welcomes You' and a reminder of some of the thought provoking exhibits in the main gallery #MuseumEd
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Can't be in Salford without a quick visit to Imperial War Museum North. Absolutely stunning exhibition 'Chila Welcomes You' and a reminder of some of the thought provoking exhibits in the main gallery #MuseumEd
An overwhelmingly inspirational session #LetsEngage25 @artscouncilengland.bsky.social by a group of speakers advocating for themselves and their peers about how arts and creativity can help youth mental health 💗 #RefreshYourPerspective
April 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
An overwhelmingly inspirational session #LetsEngage25 @artscouncilengland.bsky.social by a group of speakers advocating for themselves and their peers about how arts and creativity can help youth mental health 💗 #RefreshYourPerspective