Got time for a tour? #Museums2025 🗺️

Whether you’re joining us in Cardiff today or not, take a few minutes to watch our newly commissioned video tour of St Fagans which premiered at the start of this year’s conference.

Sit back and let your guide Gareth show you around 👇

News | Royal Academy of Arts expands collection galleries – anonymous donor backs gallery’s free-to-visit spaces

Well, our day of tours around Cardiff and South Wales has now finished! Thanks for sticking around with us and we hope you enjoyed making the most of our final day in this wonderful city.

Safe travels home, everyone 👋

#Museums2025

Still time to book on to @museumsassociation.org Members Together event in Swansea tomorrow. Open to all individual members, commercial members and anyone who works for an organisation that is an institutional member. www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...

“We’re really looking forward to showing you St Fagans – an experience that will look and feel very different from past MA conferences.”

We’re shaking things up at MA Conference 2025, our first at an open-air museum. Have a read of this introduction to #Museums2025 by @simonastephens.bsky.social 👇

Fantastic to see the two huge works by William Hogarth – The Good Samaritan and The Pool of Bethesda - on the staircase leading to the Great Hall at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Open to the public in October. @heritagefunduk.bsky.social is main funder. @museumsassociation.org

UPDATED: News | River & Rowing Museum to ‘cease current operation’ as it considers future plans – Henley-on-Thames venue under financial pressure due to high cost of maintaining building

Opportunity | Executive Assistant – Maternity Cover 👤

We're looking for a full-time executive assistant to support our director, senior management team and board of trustees for up to 14 months. The role is hybrid, with all staff expected to work from our office in London at least twice per month.

News | Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) funds UK-wide climate work – twelve organisations being supported to help communities engage with issues such as biodiversity decline, climate change and pollution

News | UK Government announces £20m fund to protect English civic museums – package is part of new Arts Everywhere Fund marking 60th anniversary of first arts white paper

@artscouncilengland.bsky.social

News | British Museum appoints architect for major redevelopment — Lina Ghotmeh Architecture chosen ahead of four other shortlisted proposals for Western Range galleries

Mae Cynhadledd yr MA yn dod i Gymru!

We can't wait to see you all at Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru – St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff in October 👋

Book your ticket to Europe's largest museum conference now – and get 10% off until 31 March using code 25CONF10 🎟️

#Museums2025

Feature | The art of decolonisation 🎨

@simonastephens.bsky.social on the growing trend of artists exploring the legacy of empire through museum collections.

Open access 🔓

📢 Last chance to submit a proposal for #Museums2025, 7-9 October, Cardiff 📍

If you've got an idea for a bold, innovative session at this year's MA conference, you've only got until *midnight tonight* to send it over to us 📩

Bring your session to the biggest museum conference in Europe 👇

Lights, camera, action! Join us at the Barbican on 12 March for Show Time: Designing Great Exhibitions 2025 🎬

We'll be examining how museums’ changing understanding of their role in broader society is affecting approaches to exhibition design – from sustainability to co-production and beyond.

📢 Callout: are you a solo museum manager? Running a one-person ship? We want to hear from you!

We're looking to speak to individuals who are managing a museum in the UK by themselves for a feature in Museums Journal 📰

If that's you, please email journal@museumsassociation.org 📩

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Give your loved ones what they really want this Christmas (one year of gift membership of the Museums Association) (as little as £51) (last orders at 4.00pm on Wednesday 18 December) 🎄

Don't forget that we're looking for three new trustees – could this be one of your new year's resolutions?

If you're talented, motivated and interested in shaping the strategic direction of the MA, this is your opportunity to influence the sector 🗳️

Make a nomination for election by 23 January 👇