Around this time last year, I was part of the team that submitted a grant application to the European Commission to run a European Researchers’ Night event, blissfully unaware of what 2020 had in store. …

Toward the end of 2020, the Museums Association published the result of their two-year consultation on museum learning and engagement, A Manifesto for Museum Learning and Engagement. At the time it felt like the right intervention, published just before museums were hit by new tier restrictions and eventual shutting altogether…

Working to embed a culture of public engagement with research can feel like an adventure into the unknown at times. It’s an adventure we at the Public Engagement Unit at the University of Bath have been on ourselves since 2012. …

Shock, outrage and incredulity best characterised the Twitter reaction at the announcement of Doug Gurr as the new Director of the Natural History Museum, London. The Museum came under sustained criticism for being ‘tone-deaf’ to the calls for increasing diversity in the museum workforce as it announced it’s new Director…

How can natural history museums respond to civic issues to make a positive social impact for people and the natural world? Dean Veall here. Back in April this year a crowd of people quietly lay down in the central hall of London’s Natural History Museum staging a mass ‘die-in’ under…