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The chapel #IMMMIreland always distracts me - no matter how great the talks are (as they were at VAI’s GetToGether this week). Gorgeous, but also reminds of the heyday of IMMA’s summer parties when we all ran a little wild in there!

Our monthly round-up of sectoral news, jobs, professional development events, publications, funding opps and awards is out! mailchi.mp/irishmuseums...

Hi folks, I’m trying to draw together a few people from within the museum sector in Ireland - feel free to let me know who I can add. go.bsky.app/SwWR6AB

Our next online session will bring together heritage practitioners and community voices to explore what it means for museums and heritage organisations to be queer family friendly. 📆 Date: 9 December, 10:00-12:30 (UK time) 📍 Location: Online Sign up for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1074393332...

Sharing the Museum Ireland journal, published this week, capturing #IrishMuseums thinking, research, and activity from the Irish Museums Association’s core annual focus areas: - Trust and the rise of populism - Difficult histories - EDI mailchi.mp/irishmuseums...

Fascinating few days at #NEMO conference last week, ‘Can we Talk?’ Always useful to meet with European colleagues, but particularly when the theme is so fascinating (influence + political pressures). Blown away also by our hosts at ASTRA Museum’s hospitality, and from everyone I met in #Sibiu