Rosie Barker

Bright yellow banner has the logo for the organisation GLAM Cares on the left, the name of the organisation over a pale grey heart with sparkles around it. On the right the text reads 'a care and support network for GLAM community engagement professionals'

GLAM Cares is holding its third conference in Birmingham on Thurs 18th June.
Callout for proposals now open - share good practice in caring for your staff, volunteers or freelancers in the cultural sector, see forms.gle/aAAv3o593Qv9...
And if you want to hear good practice - save the date!

Winners of Museums Change Lives Awards 2025 announced in Cardiff - Museums Association Birmingham Museums Trust awarded best project for citizens' jury initiative

News | Winners of Museums Change Lives Awards 2025 announced in Cardiff — Birmingham Museums Trust awarded best project for citizens' jury initiative

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Trauma Informed Practice for Museums, Libraries, Archives and Galleries Join GLAMCares for an introduction to Trauma Informed work, and how to put this in practice in your organisation

Interested in Trauma Informed Practice? GLAM Cares is delighted to work with Louise Thompson from Mindful Museums again for an introduction to trauma-informed work.

Mon 22nd Sept, 10-1. Tickets cost £30, and places are limited. Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trauma-inf...

Birmingham Museum opens book of condolences for Ozzy Osbourne - Museums Association Museum has extended opening hours to pay tribute to Birmingham-born heavy metal icon

News | Birmingham Museum opens book of condolences for Ozzy Osbourne – museum has extended opening hours to pay tribute to Birmingham-born heavy metal icon

They look fab (and that is far more productive than I've been on a Sunday!)

We're recruiting for a Curator of Science & Industry at Birmingham Museums.

Really open to people from science communication, industry or other fields - if you're interested in working with/for our audiences, using science collections to tell stories.

bit.ly/3I2mcsb - get in touch with questions!

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Comfort watch... the Bourne Identity

A great conference with @glamcares.bsky.social today -see thread for links, tips and interesting projects!

Feels so rare to see the right thing being done by MPs, thank goodness and about time!

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below is a photo of a speaker at the event with the text 'Building a network of creative health practitioners: maternal journal in Wakefield and West Yorkshire, Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield, and Diane Saxon, Art House Wakefield.'

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below is a photo of a speaker at the event with the text 'Simple Ways to include wellbeing in Activity Programmes, Tom Hughes, Dumfries and Galloway Museums'

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below is a photo of a speaker at the event with the text 'Can making a zine help? Theresa Easton, consultant'

We finish the day with sessions looking at Creative Health, from building your network, to simple tips to add wellbeing in your work, and ending with zine making to take away!

Do book and join us and participants from across the UK, just £25 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below are three photos of speakers at the event with the text 'Afternoon panel discussion, Sophie Beckett, Birmingham Museums Trust, Philip Newton, York Museums Trust and Jane Findlay, Dulwich Picture Gallery'

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below is a photo of speakers at the event with the text 'Centering yourself for sustainable empowerment, Bryony Rowntree, Life and Leadership Coach'

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below is a photo of speakers at the event with the text 'Planning for the unexpected, Emily Robson and Lucy Pedley, Pallant House Gallery'

Our post-lunch session focusses on Community Engagement and Participation, with a panel, workshop and presentation giving you best practice and tools to take away.

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Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below are four photos of speakers at the event with the text 'Morning Panel Discussion with Joanne Charlton and Zoe Brown, North East Museums, Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff, Heritage Doncaster, and Susan Griffiths, GLAM, University of Oxford'

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below are two photos of speakers at the event with the text 'But who looks after the nurse? How libraries and museums can care for our carers' and the names Kai Flynn and John Stammers, Royal College of Nursing

Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below are three photos of speakers at the event with the text 'Advocating for staff support, World Cafe' and the names Harald Fredheim, Stella Basinyi and Kate Morris, University of York'

There's still time to book for the GLAMCares conference next week - join us in Leeds on Thurs 26 June!

We have a packed programme with great speakers, workshops and panels. Book at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

The day starts with sessions on Mental Health & Wellbeing...

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Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums This exhibition celebrates the solo achievements and global awards of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne and the album art of the original Black Sabbath line-up to co

Lots of secret work gone on behind the scenes but excited we can fianally announce a new display celebrating Ozzy Osbourne, with awards from his personal archive, opening 25th June!

www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Want to...
- learn how to advocate for staff support
- hear how zines validate external voices
- explore how museums care for health care professionals
- empower yourself in your work
- easily include wellbeing in your programmes
and more?

A few spaces left on the GLAMcares conference, just £25!

Don't forget to sign up for our conference next month! Full programme coming out this week, but expect presentations, panels and workshops on wellbeing, community engagement and creative health, all for just £25!

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Lack Panther.

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The right priority! I'm too slow, and now my home is only 6% usable floor space, the rest is boxes, like a pandemic hoarder. All furniture now made out of toilet roll.

Yes! And you get about 3 minutes within which to postpone before the next shipment, so I always miss it, and my neighbours have to take in another parcel and wonder what on earth I'm doing...

Work in #museums #libraries or #archives ? If you want to care for yourself/your staff while working with communities, do join @glamcares.bsky.social for our second conference!

Photo shows a blue wall with a very large graphic, featuring an enlarged self portrait of Rembrandt, and the exhibition title.

Photo shows one of Rembrandt's prints, of a black and white shell

Photo shows one of Rembrandt's prints. S man stands at a table looking up at a bright light containing mathematical and astrological symbols

Photo shows a Rembrandt etching of a windmill and cottage

'Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White' opens today at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

The first exhibition of this scale I've worked on, and we pulled it off in a very short time. All credit to techs, conservators, marketing, painters etc!

We've been overwhelmed with bookings for this session - fantastic to see so many people taking this seriously!

Bookings on hold for now but we're looking at future dates for a repeat - watch this space and sign up for our newsletter for info!

Trauma Informed Practice, 20 March 2025 Thursday 20 March, 10am to 1pm Cost: £10.00 (+VAT) Via Zoom (link to follow), booking required Join GLAM Cares for a 3 hour online workshop introducing the concept and the realities of trauma informed...

Want to find out about Trauma Informed Practice in #Museums #Archives and #Libraries?

Join GLAMcares for an online session with experienced practitioner Louise Thompson from Mindful Museums

Thurs 20th March, 10am-1pm, just £12. Book at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That's ace, well done Tom!

Today in 'my son knows me so well / I may be a bit odd', my son made me my own taxidermy, something I know is peculiar but I've always wanted. I will be making it a hat.

Citizens’ Jury | Birmingham Museums "What does Birmingham need and want from its museums, now and in the future; and what should Birmingham Museums Trust do to make these things happen?" To a

There's more info and the final report at www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w... but always happy to talk about it too!

Birmingham Museums Citizen's Jury YouTube video by Birmingham Museums Trust

Hugely proud to have played a small role in Birmingham Museums' Citizens' Jury, the first in a UK museum context. Genuinely working with a representative group of people to come together to think about our future. It's been emotional and challenging, loved it!
youtu.be/j7SdV6_V39U?...

Just - belatedly - deleted my Twitter account.

I've barely used it in ages, and it's the right thing, but it's where masses of people wrote amazing things about my Dad when he died, so it feels like a loss

And yet, it's also just words on a screen and I should pull myself together, right?

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A fantastic 38 people joined our online session today, exploring case studies and scenarios for fostering a Culture of Care in your #museum, #library or #archives work.

More sessions, and a conference to come this year!

Don't forget to join @glamcares.bsky.social and (apparently!) 47 other people who've signed up to think about building care into #museum #library and #archive work!

Sign up free below, for Monday's online session

The joys of illustrated manuscripts