| Organiser: | Museums Association |
**SOLD OUT** For waiting list please email lorraine@museumsassociation.org
How can museums and galleries be places for healing, not just for history?
This conference is for anyone who is interested in putting users' needs first when working with the most frail and vulnerable members of society, including those in hospitals, hospices or day-care centres, as well as the wider community. Speakers explore how museums can realise their full potential as therapeutic spaces and sources of inspiration to improve people's wellbeing. The day features innovative projects and new research including: self-prescribed cultural activities for people coping with mental health issues; user involvement in artist-led residencies in hospices; working with people with Alzheimer's and their carers; and the health benefits of handling objects. Who is it for? all staff working in education community and outreach staff senior managers committed to the health benefits of the arts and heritage. What will I learn? partnership working with hospices ways of meeting the needs of mental health service users how to make the case for long-term outreach funding ways to support people with Alzheimer's and their carers what hospital-based teachers need from museums how to create a therapeutic handling collection. Chair Marilyn Scott
Director, the Lightbox Speakers Helen Chatterjee
Deputy director, University College London, Museums & Collections Lucinda Jarrett
Director, Rosetta Life Claire Duffy
Head of community partnerships, National Museums Liverpool Gill Hart
Outreach and access officer, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Lucy Ribeiro
Learning and access manager, National Portrait Gallery
**SOLD OUT**
For waiting list, please email Lorraine O'Leary: lorraine@museumsassociation.org
| Organiser: | Museums Association |
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