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Today’s blog is written by Phoebe Wingate, a trainee on Norfolk Museums Service ‘Teaching Museum‘ scheme.  My relationship with History as a subject is a rather turbulent story.  At Middle School I had a fantastic teacher by the name of Mr Holzer. His lessons... Continue Reading

We bring you today’s blog with a heavy heart. Saddened by the news of the death of  Katrina Siliprandi last week, SHARE’s Kathy Moore, a dear friend of Katrina, writes:   Many of you will be aware of Katrina’s pioneering work in Museum Learning as Head of... Continue Reading

Today’s update is brought to you by Elizabeth Brooking from Bawdsey Radar Museum. Liz is a trustee, shop volunteer and ex-teacher, with no prior retail experience. Liz recently attended one of our Retail Forum events at Chelmsford Museum on visual merchandising. Both Hilary... Continue Reading

This month’s blog is written by Jeremy Thackray, Assistant Curator at the Centre for Computing History, reflecting on the SHARE Volunteer Awards – a first for the museum.  Museum jobs are rarely very glamorous.  Whether we’re knee-deep in the dust of a neglected... Continue Reading

This week, Ruth Burwood (Museum Development Project Officer for Collections) reflects on the highs and lows of collections review and rationalisation, and shares some top tips… I once had a dream that I was in a museum store auditing a box of men’s collars.  The brown... Continue Reading

This weeks’ guest blog comes from Sheridanne Reynolds, Retail and Garden Project Volunteer at the Higgins Museum and Art Gallery. I volunteer at The Higgins Bedford and in February I was asked if I would be interested in attending the Association for Cultural Enterprises... Continue Reading

Museums are like cakes. Everybody has experienced one, and almost everybody has enjoyed one. Some eat cake all the time, others eat in moderation and some save it for a special treat. Some cakes are too rich, some are too plain; for some, the humble mince pie is just as... Continue Reading

With Volunteer Awards season just round the corner, we’ve been speaking to Niki Hughes, a founding member of the scheme in 2015, and integral part of it’s steering group today. In the atmospheric surroundings of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the second annual SHARE... Continue Reading

SHARE are pleased to be able to offer this great opportunity for anyone who wants to improve the way they work with their volunteers. It is widely recognised that managing volunteers can be quite different to managing paid staff and this course will help you to improve your... Continue Reading

Todays guest blog comes from Anne Brown, a Teaching Museums trainee with Norfolk Museums Service. Anne shares her thoughts on the SHARE Conference in November and reflects on the things she’s learned along the way. On the 21st November 2016 I had the great pleasure of... Continue Reading