Did you know that MEG has a blog? Museums are so much more than about caring for objects; museums are about people, meaning, and memory. Read more about our group’s reflections on working in the museum sector on the MEG blog. To find all blogs, click the link in bio.

The Rethinking Relationships project is hosting MEG’s annual conference this year on 23rd and 24th April, 2026. The project has been building partnerships with communities and stakeholders to provide meaningful access to the collections. Scan the code below for more information.

The International Network of Museums for Peace Conference comes to North America for the first time in Winnipeg, Canada! Explore how museums foster empathy, decolonization, human rights, and peace. Learn more and register here: lnkd.in/gBYAmhBu

Join The Future of the Shrunken Heads, a public event @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social concluding the Shuar delegation's UK visit for the ongoing Proyecto Tsantsa. Hear Shuar leaders and museum staff discuss shrunken heads, collaboration, and the future of these cultural materials in UK collections.

Join Dr. Padraig Kirwan as he delves into the material at Maidstone Museum’s collection on 27th Nov. As the PI on ‘Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition, & Reciprocity,’ Kirwan explores connections between Indigenous nations and non-Native communities: museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Join us for the next 'Keeping Connected' event, centred on repatriation work in Bristol! We have limited seats available. Register with the link below: webcollect.org.uk/meg/event/re... We look forward to seeing you there in person!

Sign up to attend this special event with Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery register here: bit.ly/46RtYj0

Join us in rebuilding connections on 3 September 2025 at Bristol Museum with colleagues, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) staff, and community members to learn more about the realities of repatriation in Bristol. Register necessary: bit.ly/46RtYj0

Watch a recording of our fantastic panelists Beyond The Buzzwords as the interrogate an important question - Is Help Really Helping? m.youtube.com/watch?v=SHq0...

Intriguing start to @musethnogroup.bsky.social conference this afternoon at World Museum, Liverpool with gallery tour by @mobbackhouse.bsky.social . Can 'small' interventions in problematic spaces, during resource strapped times, be enough? Or do we need another model?

Only 3 days until bookings close to attend MEG's 50th conference at National Museums Liverpool! Book your tickets: book.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museumoflive...

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Only 2 weeks before registrations close to attend the MEG conference. A draft programme is now available - 8 sessions + a film screening over 2 days. Join us at the iconic National Museums Liverpool museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/meg-conferen...

Tickets are now available to book for MEG's 50th Anniversary Conference Help! Care and Support in Museums National Museums Liverpool. On 24-25 April Book now: book.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museumoflive...

University of Nottingham are seeking a part-time, fixed-term Impact Fellow to join their project Mapping the Indigenous North American Collection of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. Deadline 19 March Apply: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Visit @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social for the 2025 Kenneth Kirkwood Day - on the topic of repatriations, with eminent speakers talking about how museums are approaching this subject!

EMKP is hiring - a project curator in (visual) anthropology, with ethnographic experience. Requires digital asset management experience. The applicant will support EMKP's Head in the management of the EMKP digital collection. If this sounds like you, apply here: lnkd.in/eab_zgGe

Welcome to BlueSky! Follow @journalofmeg.bsky.social to keep updated on our annual journal publications. Next issue out soon! 👀

CFP: CREATING the MUSEUM: EXPLORING the MUSEUM IMPULSE in LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS MGHG Annual Conference in collaboration with National Gallery 26th-27th Sept '25. Details: mghg.info/forthcoming-... @rhulgeography.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @musethnogroup.bsky.social

NEW BLOG OUT NOW! Read Clémentine Débrosse's review of the exhibitions "Hew Locke: What Have We Here?" at the British Museum and "Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place" at the Fitzwilliam Museum on our blog. museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/blog/artists...

4 days to go! Apply to present at the MEG conference or apply for bursaries to attend the conference in Liverpool! museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/meg-conferen...

Deadline to apply for our conference has been postponed to 24th January!

Reminder that the deadline for applications to our conference are in 10 days! We also have bursaries for 2 people to attend the conference. Apply by 17 Jan!

Just over a month to submit a paper or proposal for the 2025 @musethnogroup.bsky.social Conference being held at National Museums Liverpool in April. This year we're thinking about HELP in all its guises and all its meanings. museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/meg-conferen...

Well, hello BlueSky! Here's a bit about us: We are a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network. Our members include museum professionals, academics, researchers, students, artists, activists and enthusiasts, interested in and care for global cultures collections.