Manchester Art Gallery

Amazing News! Families of the World project has won the ‘Best Museums Change Lives Project Award’ 🏆🎉 Families of the World is a real team effort and its success is thanks to the care, love and generosity of everyone involved. Huge thanks to our amazing volunteers and families for bringing the joy every week! 🧡 Warmth and humanity is the thread that runs through Families of the World, thanks to our funders The Oglesby Charitable Trust and partners from Sure Start, the Manchester Public Health Team and the National Literacy Trust. This is a collaborative approach that always has the families we work with at its heart, but also a longer term vision of Manchester as a city of equity and welcome. #Museums24 #FamiliesOfTheWorld #GalleryOfSanctuary #TheOglesbyCharitableTrust Museums Association City of Sanctuary UK Manchester City Council

We’re absolutely delighted to reveal the winners of this year’s MCL Awards 🏆 Our four winners represent the very best of the UK museum sector’s work on social impact 🤝 Congratulations to… ⭐️ Best Museums Change Lives Project: Manchester Art Gallery – Families of the World ⭐️ Best Small Museum Project: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery – Illuminating Invisible Histories: Flavours Without Borders ⭐️ Championing Social Justice Award: Perth Museum, Culture Perth and Kinross – Unicorn ⭐️ Radical Changemaker Award: Marian Gwyn Huge congratulations to the winners and also our shortlisted people and projects – the quality of entrants this year was exceptional and our judges had the difficult job of choosing winners from an outstanding field. We'd also like to thank our wonderful awards sponsor, PLB Projects. Read more about all the projects 👉 https://ow.ly/iJaG50U4Ybj #Museums2024 #Museums #Galleries #MuseumAwards

🎉 Great News! We’ve been awarded a Reimagine grant from Art Fund! This funding will help us strengthen partnerships with schools and colleges across Manchester and explore new ways to make our collection accessible. Find out more about the Reimagine programme: https://bit.ly/48vZHol We’ll be loaning artworks from the Rutherston Loan Collection to embed art in schools and promote visual literacy, creativity and wellbeing. “The power that art can have in the community is really represented through this, so it’s great to be re-exploring this collection with the young people of Manchester, see what still sparks curiosity and to see what use it has again in the future.” - Emma Carroll, Schools and Colleges Manager Video Description: Emma sits in front of a painting in the gallery, her voiceover is overlayed with close ups of paintings and prints from the Rutherston Loan Collection. Students and artists in discussion with each other about various prints that are laid out out tables. #MAGlearning #ArtandEducation #ArtIsForEveryone #RutherstonLoanCollection

We’ve just awarded £1 million in funding to support local museums and galleries across the country through the latest round of our Reimagine programme. Our Museum Directors Survey 2024 revealed that financial strain on civic museums has worsened following a decade of austerity, the pandemic and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, with two thirds of museum directors concerned about funding shortfalls, a rise from half in 2022. This round of Reimagine therefore prioritised museums relying on local authority support. Since 2020, Reimagine has evolved to address urgent sector needs, like rebuilding audiences, caring for collections and diversifying workforces. The projects we’ve funded this year include sensory exhibitions for disabled and neurodivergent adults at MK Gallery; behind-the-scenes tours for rurally isolated groups at Fermanagh County Museum; Manchester Art Gallery loaning artworks to local schools to improve visual literacy amongst children; and creative workshops for men accessing mental health support services at Hartlepool Art Gallery. Read about the projects we’ve funded: https://bit.ly/4f4wMuh

📣We are hiring! 🏛️Collection Information Manager ✨Are you passionate about collections care? Manchester Art Gallery is looking for a skilled individual with experience in collections management systems and standards to join our team. 👉 Apply: https://bit.ly/3T6vX9F 📅Deadline: Wednesday 6 November #MCRjobs #ArtJobs #ManchesterArtGallery #MuseumJobs #CollectionsManagement Manchester City Council

Congratulations to everyone nominated 👏 Looking forward to seeing you at the awards!

🧡 Big News!🧡 We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that our Families of the World project has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Museums Change Lives Project Award’ at the Museums Change Lives Awards 2024! 🏆 Families of the World welcomes refugee children and families to the gallery every week, creating a space for them to come together, to access the city's art collection and share their culture and experiences with each other. “Manchester Art Gallery is thrilled to be nominated for this award. We are a Gallery of Sanctuary, and Families of the World exemplifies our commitment to making the gallery somewhere everyone is welcome, respected and represented. As an organisation we gain so much from working with the families that engage with the project and this nomination is as much theirs as it is ours.” - Inbal Livne, Senior Creative Lead Find out more about the shortlists on the MA website 👉 https://mus.ms/MCL2024 Museums Association Manchester City Council #Museums24 #FamiliesOfTheWorld #GalleryOfSanctuary

We have recently installed a bespoke ground level Clip-to-Scaffold hoarding system to an entrance at Manchester Art Gallery to allow for the replacement of an entrance door and remedial work to the stonework surrounding it. SR3 high security rating was required with full specification and structural drawings submitted in advance due to the combined weight of the panels and scaffold frame. Read more here https://lnkd.in/ea5WMh8J #securityhoarding #cliptoscaffoldsystem

Thank you Catherine Millan and the Be What You See Consultancy team for delivering a brilliant Active Bystander training session to our staff today. Great way to start the week!

As part of #GoodEmploymentWeek join the Uncertain Futures Advisory Group with Ruth Edson, Community Learning Manager and Dr Sarah Campbell (Senior Lecturer) for a tour and conversation about the methodologies and findings from the Uncertain Futures Art and Research project. 📅 Wednesday 9 October, 11am, 1pm & 2.30pm https://lnkd.in/e95WHpwG Manchester City Council The Manchester Metropolitan University The University of Manchester Sarah Campbell