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A supportive network of
working class
museum people
making change in the sector

New members

Are you a museum worker from a working class background?

Museums and organisations

Does your museum or organisation need help to recruit, support and retain working class talent?

Manifesto

Without a representative workforce how can your museum serve its communities? Addressing who works in museums leads to long term benefits for audiences, collections and exhibition development.

Projects

Working class tea party

We hosted a Working Class Tea Party at the British Museum’s National Programme Conference in 2019. Workshop facilitators sit around a table with tea and (broken) biscuits, discussing class in a relaxed and open way.

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Supermuckers intervention

At the 2018 Museums Association conference in Belfast, Museum as Muck devised and produced an intervention asking conference delegates to examine their own class privilege.

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Museum Directors' breakfast

Directors’ Breakfasts are networking events aimed at the sector’s senior staff. Museum as Muck held one with a difference.