The NPHT is proud to champion truly inclusive workplaces. In 2023, we launched our 'becoming seamlessly inclusive' strategy which included a programme which sought to address a distinct lack of employment opportunities for disabled people in our local area. ♿ #ParalympicHeritage #NIW2025 🏛️🎓

If you're at #GEMConference2025 representing a museum/gallery/etc in Leeds I'd love to talk to you about a project I've got funding for... (If you're not at the conference and you fit the rest of the description I'd love to talk to you too!)

On my way to @gem.org.uk Conference! Looking forward to 3 days of hearing from amazing speakers and catching up with everyone! Please do come and say hello if you are there. #GEMConference2025

It's #GEMConference2025 eve! The team are busy prepping for and we are so excited to welcome delegates tomorrow! Who is joining us?

Today I have been busy preparing my presentation for the @gem.org.uk conference next week! Looking forward to seeing everyone there and sharing about widening access for autistic audiences! #GEMConference2025

Everyone is responsible for accessibility. Not just those with access in their job title. Not just people with lived experience who may have been pressured to advise on access. Everyone. #Accessibility #Museums #LivedExperience 🏛🎓

📢 We’re Hiring! 📢 Role: Learning Consultant 🏛️🎓 Aim: To develop an accessible, curriculum-based, KS2 resource for our Global Virtual Museum. Project Dates: Sept to Nov Budget: £1,200 Apply by: Friday 29th August 2025 For more info & to apply, visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/news/learnin...

I love these gallery maps at Leeds City Museum. They are great for preparing you for what to expect and explains any access resources. Previous maps even included content and trigger warnings for specific areas. Such a simple way to embed accessibility into exhibitions. #Museums #Access 🏛🎓

📣 Exciting GEM News! £30k Awarded to Action Research Exploring Inclusive Career Pathways in Museums. To find out the seven museums that have been selected to participate in their new Inclusive Pathways Action Research Programme, click below! 🔗 gem.org.uk/our-work/gem... #GEM #inclusivepathways

Hello everyone, it has been a while so thought I would reintroduce myself! I'm Emily, an access consultant supporting museums to increase accessibility for neurodivergent visitors and staff delivered from the lived experience perspective. #Neurodivergence #Museums 🏛🎓

✨ Creating inclusive career pathways for young people Join Kids in Museums and #GEM for an informal virtual briefing and discussion session about pathways for young people in museums. 📅 Tuesday 30 September, 2pm - 3.30pm 📍 Online 🔗 Book your place: kids-in-museums.cademy.io/creating-inc... #GEM

All ready for @glamcares.bsky.social conference today! Looking forward to hearing from all the speakers on the line up. #GLAMCares2025

So excited that @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Abbey House Museum have been shortlisted for a @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social award! Congrats to everyone shortlisted! Woo hooo! #FamilyFriendlyMuseum #museumlearning #museum

🎉 The wait is over! Meet the Family Friendly Museum Award 2025 shortlist🏆 From free, hands on activities to co-designed inclusive resources, these museums are going above and beyond to ensure a great experience for their family visitors. Explore the shortlist: kidsinmuseums.org.uk/2025/06/disc...

Good morning #museums, #galleries & #heritage sites of the UK! Your challenge for today is to search for "maths week [country you're based in]", put the dates in your calendar & start thinking about how you can get involved! (If you're already planning something, tell me about it!) 🏛️🎓 #MathsToday

We're in the @gem.org.uk magazine: 'Career Pathways in Museums' Find our case study: 'Diversifying the Workforce', focussing on opportunities for disabled & neurodiverse people, through placements & traineeships #MuseumEd Read about the aims, obstacles & outcomes on p22! gem.org.uk/wp-content/u...

📣 Calling all freelancers! Join Dr. Laura Crossley, workplace culture specialist and freelance arts consultant, and explore ways of navigating the challenges presented by freelance work. 📅 Wednesday, July 2, 10 - 11:30am 📍 Online 🔗 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freelancer...

📣 FREE Online Session: Museum Learning and AI 📣 Join GEM and Jonathan Munro, Digital Learning Officer, Leeds Museums and Galleries, to discuss the potential uses of AI in museum learning. 📅 Tuesday, 22nd July, 11 – 12 📍 Online 🔗 Find out more: gem.org.uk/event/museum... #GEM #Museumlearning #AI

✨GEM Workshop: Community and Co-Design✨ Are you looking to effectively engage with communities? Join GEM and Beloved Adonai for a workshop on how to create sustainable partnerships. 📆 Tuesday, June 17, 10am - 12pm 📍Online 🔗 Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-worksh... #GEM#museumlearning

📣 Call for Proposals 📣 Case Studies #35: The Sensational Museum If you have embraced a multi-sensory approach, we invite you to share your experience. ⏱️ Proposal Deadline: Monday, 26th May. 🔗 For more information visit: gem.org.uk/our-work/pub... #GEM #sensationalmuseum #GEMcasestudies

🌟 Happy Creativity & Wellbeing Week, 2025 🌟 As part of #CreativityandWellbeingWeek, we’re reflecting on the important ways museums and heritage learning contribute to mental wellbeing and social inclusivity. 🔗 To find out more, visit our website: gem.org.uk #creativehealth #newhorizons

tl;dr: sign up for some free professional development for museum folk in #Scotland here: my.nms.ac.uk/0/17854 🏛️🎓 #maths #MathsToday

📣 New funding opportunity @gem.org.uk is offering grants up to £5,000 for projects that remove barriers to work experience and create inclusive pathways. Application deadline: 7 July. Find out more about applying 👉 gem.org.uk/our-work/gem...

I'm really looking forward to attending the @museumsandheritage.com show! Looking forward to catching up, meeting new people and listening to some amazing speakers! Also happy to chat access for neurodivergent audiences! Please come say hello! #Museums #MuseumEd #Access

It was an honour today to attend and speak at @museumsassociation.org 'All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums'. Thank you to everyone who came along and to everyone who shared so openly both speakers and attendees! #AllInclusive #Museums #Accessibility 🎓🏛

Thank you to @teakayb.mathsy.space for providing some training on how to use BlueSky for @gem.org.uk area reps yesterday - I learned a lot too! Let's hope we can continue to build the learning #MuseumEd community on here! #MuseumLearning #GEM

Last few days to submit your proposals for GEM Conference 2025! #GEM #MuseumLearning #MusEd

I am really looking forward to speaking at this event on 7th May alongside some incredible people. I will be there talking all things access audits!

There’s still time to apply to be part of GEM Conference 2025: Sustaining our Practice, Sustaining Our World. If you would like to deliver a presentations or workshop, please submit a proposal by Monday 28 April 2025. Find out more: gem.org.uk/training-and... #GEM #museumlearning #GEMconference

It's #NationalPetDay so here is my cat, Tilly. She likes to 'help' me when I'm working and loves to introduce herself in an online meeting!

Accessible Interpretation in Practice is now open for booking. Are you a learning professional looking to develop your inclusive museum practices? Book now! 📆 Mondays on 9th, 16th, 23rd June 2025, 10am – 12:30pm 📍 Online 🔗 gem.org.uk/training-and... #GEM #MuseumLearning #AccessibleInterpretation

Hello Bluesky! Follow us for updates from the Journal of Museum Education, innovations in the field of museum education, and general love for the museum educators out there doing the hard work of making museum learning accessible!

How can museums become anti-ableist in everything that they do? Come to All Inclusive to hear provocations, case studies and panel discussions and discover what an anti-ableist museum might look like in practice, how to challenge and dismantle ableism in your museum, and much more. Book from £36 👇

Join us for a sensory storytime this Easter half-term, where we'll be diving into the children's picture book, Splash! 📆 Thursday 10th April, 11am-Noon 📍 National Paralympic Heritage Centre, Stoke Mandeville Stadium 💵 FREE For more visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/Event/making... #MuseumEd ♿

Book your space for GEM Sensational Museum Training. Join us for two bespoke training sessions that rethink the role of senses in museums. 📆 12 & 19 June 2025 📍Zoom 🔗 gem.org.uk/event/gem-se... #GEM #Museumlearning @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social

📣 Call for proposals! Case Studies #35, The Sensational Museum. Have you experimented with innovative ways of engaging different #senses in #museums? Or used insights from disability-led practice to transform your work? We'd like to hear from you. Learn more: gem.org.uk/our-work/pub... #GEM

Proud of my friend @emilyautism.bsky.social for delivering a brilliant workshop at #AccessInMuseums conference. I think you're authentically enthusiastic and you're also pretty funny! Thank you for sharing your experience and giving practical advice for how we can support neurodivergent people

CFP alert: Continuing on from the success of our 2024 in-person event, we are thrilled to announce that we are running a virtual event for 2025! This will be taking place on the 25th June 2025, on Zoom. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 11th April 2025! #DisHist #CFP

Please don't tell someone who is autistic, otherwise neurodivergent or disabled that they are not trying hard enough. You have no idea how hard we have to fight everyday! #Autism #Neurodivergent #Disability

Museums and galleries 📣 Would you like to improve your digital skills? We’re looking for 20 collections in England that want to improve their digital skills in storytelling, marketing, and audience engagement. Find out more and sign up 👉 artuk.org/about/digita...

I saw some discussion about the *origin* of Alt text. TMK, Alt text *started* as an HTML tag to address unavailable images for a slow & fragile internet in the early 90’s. It *became* a critical accessibility feature shortly after. Alt text: 1993 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: 1999 📓:Wix

Join us for our next #TeacherAssociatesGroup Meeting at Colchester Castle on Tuesday, 25th March. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow educators, gain insights into our upcoming exhibition, and help shape the museum’s school resources. Book your place at: buff.ly/3Xn4zbn

In support of #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek I've extended the opportunity to complete this short survey. All responses will support my ongoing Developing Your Creative Practice project looking at neurodivergent access in museums. The survey can be found here: forms.gle/4WwugMBpmv3P... 🏛️🎓

📢NOMINATIONS OPEN! Kids in Museums are starting their search for the next winner of the #FamilyFriendlyMuseum Award. If your museum is fab for families, excellent at access, or is running great projects with young people, take a look at how to enter: kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/f...

Hello #museums! I have been working on a book chapter about museum learning for neurodivergent people (lifelong learning) for a little while. As part of this chapter, I am sharing some examples of good practice, and I would love to hear about any projects you think should be highlighted.

Great session hosted by @gem-heritage.bsky.social on Inclusive Pathways this morning. It was good to hear from those working on projects as well as the powerful lived experiences of those involved. Thank you everyone for sharing! #Inclusion

#a11y tip: If you want to avoid your next facepalm moment when you realize you’ve forgotten to include alt text for the image in your post, Bluesky has a solution in Settings > Accessibility.

If you’re an autistic person and you feel that you experience an autistic trait differently to the way everyone else seems to experience it, that doesn’t mean your experience isn’t valid or that you are any less autistic. ❤️

📣 Read on for some big news from Kids in Museums! It's been a fantastic day at #RethinkingMuseums, our online conference. We've explored some brilliant practice across the sector, including... [1/4]

Personal highlight for me today was the workshop led by @carlnewbould.bsky.social. ASMR is something that I have an interest in for a while and getting to hear insights on how this has been used in practice was great! #RethinkingMuseums