Linnea Wallen

💬🏛️ Museums reflect history, but who controls the narrative?
At Museum Diplomacy in Action, Mattie Reynolds will discuss museum diplomacy, repatriation, and Indigenous control over cultural stories. #MuseumDiplomacy #IndigenousArt #Repatriation
Book your place: buff.ly/jVza4Br

Fabric of memory: the artists turning secondhand clothes into monumental art Yin Xiuzhen builds cities from donated clothing while Chiharu Shiota weaves found objects into vast webs of thread. Now the two are exhibiting their massive, moving installations in two parallel exhib...

If memory is embedded in material — in cloth, in thread, in the things we touch every day — what happens when those materials are discarded, sealed away, or transformed?

Do objects remember us? Or do we remember through them?

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Researching Love Letters Discover how expressions of love have been uncovered in unexpected places by The National Archive.

Learn more about the discovery process behind our current exhibition, Love Letters.
From structured research to serendipitous finds — three specialists and a volunteer share the thrill of uncovering heartfelt emotions centuries later: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

We're going to try to gather as many members as we can over here now that we've opened a consultative eballot following today's announcement that compulsory redundancies cannot be ruled out after a 3 week uni-wide voluntary redundancy window - QMU folk, where are you?!

Museum or mausoleum? The impacts of narrative identity in a historical collector’s museum How do contingencies between a museum’s historical legacies and its present-day organisational identity impact the museum’s conduct, values, and core narratives? What may be the tensions between hi...

Lejsgaard Christensen applies the sociological notions of ‘resonance’ and ‘alienation’ in considering how the organisation identity of a museum is an iterative process of acknowledging both its legacy and present day values and narratives:

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Great again? The rise of nostalgic nationalism - Museums Association We're living through a time of extremism, division and collective forgetting. But Rachael Lennon believes museums have the power to seed hope and cohesion

Feature | Great again? The rise of nostalgic nationalism 🕰️

We’re living through a time of extremism, division and collective forgetting. But Rachael Lennon believes museums have the power to seed hope and cohesion

An ariel photo of nine adults holding a Pride Progress flag between them.

🌈 “How can we ensure LGBTQIA+ stories are visible in our venues all year round?” We invited Ilona to share how she's worked with a local LGBTQ+ charity to develop a queer art trail at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Here are her top tips for authentic engagement with community groups: buff.ly/pjnJn06

PhD funding | PhD and Research Degrees | University of Exeter

Thinking of studying for a PhD? I'd be happy to hear from anyone considering research into British or Irish prehistory, monuments, radiocarbon dating, heritage. Part-time, distance options. There are funding schemes here at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social - but be quick, deadlines are in Jan/Feb!

Wronged by Memory Katherine Puddifoot (Durham University)

Can our memories ever be unfair or unjust? Today at The Memory Palace, Kathy Puddfoot explores the concept of "mnemonic injustice" and how our memories can serve a role in treating people with justice.
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Register now - two-day in-person interdisciplinary - in Glasgow - not hybrid!

House of Memories app launched for veterans living with dementia - Museums Association National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories

News | House of Memories app launched for veterans living with dementia

National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories

🌿 Call for Papers | Oxford 2026 Conference Theme: Museums as Spaces of Healing Museums can emotionally, culturally, and socially heal. How do they achieve this?
🗪 Join us at #Oxford 2026 Conference #callforpapers #icomuk #conference #museum
Submit papers here👉https://buff.ly/BiERQcK

I wrote this about fighting Section 28 for National Galleries Scotland, part of the brilliant 'Resistance' exhibition - there are some really interesting blogs on there too:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
For info @womenslibrary.bsky.social

A “weapon of survival”: the importance of material culture in trans re/presentation The Museum of Transology contains the UK’s largest collection of objects re/presenting trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. It is a project that fosters and centres community for trans pe...

My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking Back, Looking Forward: LGBTQ+ Equalities Let's look back, and look forward together

Excited to be running this Festival of Social Science event in Glasgow, on November 7th. If you are interested in LGBTQ+ equalities work or want to come along and learn more, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-ba...

Decorative Banner: QHCN Symposium 2025 - Registrations Open Logos included: National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, Historic England, RCMG, University of Leicester, Arts Council England

📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢

Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond

📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis

Registration links below ⬇

Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...

Our friends at @socantscot.bsky.social invite you to a free hybrid talk: Reinterpreting the Past to Explain the Present and Reimagine the Future, with Nelson Cummins on colonial histories in Glasgow Museums.

📆 Thu 2 October, 6-8pm
🎟 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

Live! Pilot study on emotions in the museum & heritage workforce. Curious to reflect on emotions in your role & work? To help test methods for a future project? See survey link below with additional info & invitation to participate @annawoodham.bsky.social qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine Explore the history of Palestinian dress and the ancient practice of elaborate hand-embroidery

🧵@vadundee.bsky.social is hosting a landmark exhibition exploring the tradition of tatreez: Palestinian embroidery. Thread Memory features over 30 historic embroidered garments, accessories, and archival photographs from the 19th century to today. #exhibition #embroidery #palestine

Football Memories: from pilot scheme to national programme - Museums Galleries Scotland Richard McBrearty, Curator at the Scottish Footall Museum, reflects on the nationwide growth of Football Memories reminiscence project.

⚽ In our latest case study, Curator Richard McBrearty shares how the Scottish Football Museum scaled up their 'Football Memories' reminiscence project by building powerful partnerships and connecting with experts: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/case-study/f...

“The nostalgia deployed here was fluid, enabling an attachment to the past, but also a reimagining of it into a different future.”

Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent.

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RECORDING: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums by Kids in Museums on cademy.io This is a recording of a session which took place on Zoom on Thursday 3 July 2025. Are you interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? About this…

🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums

Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.

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Memory Studies in India "Memory Studies in India" published on 28 Apr 2025 by Brill.

New pub: Memory Studies in India

This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, exploring how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge.

@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2025 Trailer YouTube video by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust

⚡️Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Programme & bookings are LIVE!

Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk

Check out our 2025 trailer:
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Call for Speakers In November, we’re hosting the Museums & Social Media Summit, exploring how museums can harness the power of social media to engage audiences, build their brands and tell stories. We are now inviting…

🎤Call for Speakers!
MuseumNext buff.ly/0sPlThj is inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the future of museum work for their upcoming Forecast Summit for December 2025!
The event will dive into the trends shaping the future of museums. #museum #future #museumnext

Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social

For colleagues following us here who may have missed the emails - please sign the petition against terms in the Hybrid Working Policy (specifically requiring staff to work on campus ≥50% of their time) speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/hybrid-worki...

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Beyers explores strategies of commemoration in the Apartheid Museum & District Six Museum in SA. He highlights contrasts between the role of objects where curation attribute meaning to these no longer present & those used to incite a spirit of solidarity:

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Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies YouTube video by University of Exeter

History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...