Online subject specialist sessions

Since October 2020, the International Training Programme team have been delivering online subject specialist sessions, aiming to continue sharing knowledge, skills and experiences. These sessions have included virtual discussions, workshops, ‘show and tell’ tours and presentations. They have been led by British Museum colleagues, UK and programme partners and our ITP Fellows.

Each online session has been recorded and can be watched by clicking the links below. You can also find useful resources and notes recorded from each session.

Telling stories: a new exhibition of Middle East art from the collection of the British Museum

With Venetia Porter, Curator, Islamic and Contemporary Middle East Art, British Museum

A group of people stand socially distanced wearing face masks in an exhibition space

Digital exhibitions and engagement: developing interpretive content during the pandemic

With Karen Logan, Senior Curator of History, National Museums Northern Ireland

International Touring Exhibitions: a curator’s view on content development

With Marie Vandenbeusch, Project Curator: Egyptian Touring Exhibitions, British Museum

Preserving, documenting and ‘unlocking’ sound archive recordings

With Donal McAnallen, Project Manager: Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, National Museums Northern Ireland

Artwork in black and white of abstract figures

Missionaries and Mennonites in the Paraguayan Chaco: 100 Histories of 100 Worlds

With Laura Osorio Sunnucks, Project Curator: Santo Domingo Centre, British Museum

Collecting Around Covid-19

With Patricia Allan: Curator of World Cultures, Glasgow Museums
Isobel McDonald: Curator of Social History, Glasgow Museums

The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP)

With Paula Granados García, Project Curator: EMKP, British Museum
Nik Petek-Sargeant, Project Curator: EMKP, British Museum
Jacob Nii Marley, Technical Assistant, Department of Archaeology & Heritage Studies, Leventis Digital
Resource Centre for African Studies, University of Ghana (Ghana, ITP Fellow 2019)

Two people sit in a museum gallery holding museum guides.

Linked Open Data in Museums and Archaeology: The Example of Amara West

With Manuela Lehmann, Project Curator: Amara West, British Museum

Four people sit together and write notes on large flipchart paper.

The Silk Road Then and Now: The UNESCO Silk Road Expeditions in the 1990s and their impact and legacy today

With Helen Wang, Curator, British Museum

Two people sitting and talking to each other. Paper and post-it notes fill the table in front of them.

Skill-Sharing Workshop: Museum Visitor Trails

With Anna Garnett, Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology

Person in face mask has their temperature checked before entering a museum

Museum Education in Egypt During COVID-19

With Shreen Amin, Director, The Children’s Museum, Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Egypt, ITP Fellow 2016)

Money gallery display at the British Museum

The Money and Medals Network: Promoting best practice in numismatic storage and display

With Henry Flynn, Money and Medals Network Project Curator, The British Museum

Project Management in the Cultural Sector: A guide to principles, processes and performance

With Rebecca Horton Project, Coordinator, Circulating Artefacts, British Museum

Two people position on a table a museum object shaped like a camel

The Role of Rwandan Museums in Protecting Traditional Knowledge

With Chantal Umuhoza, Curator, Institute of National Museums of Rwanda (INMR) (Rwanda, ITP Fellow 2018)

Museum curator shows an object to two children

Egyptology in Lockdown: Connecting Collections with Isolated People

With Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan, The Manchester Museum, ITP UK Partner

Ayman stands in a conference room with audience behind him

Socio-economic Impact Assessment for Heritage: Why Do We Need to Learn This?

With Ayman al-Shweiki, Cultural Heritage Professional and Master’s Student, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg (Palestine, ITP Fellow 2012)

ITP participant points to the screen while giving a presentation.

The Samarkand Half Marathon, cultural accessibility and ‘going digital’ during COVID-19

With Alsu Akhmetzyanova, Head of Education, Arts and Culture Development Foundation (Uzbekistan, ITP Fellow 2019)

A woman stands in front of a notice boardholding a microphone

Setting up a Subject Specialist Network (SSN)

With Jessica Juckes, Coordinator, British Art Network, Tate

International Copyright and Artist’s Rights

With Susan Pacitti: Publishing, Commissioning and Licensing Manager; Celine Blair: Collections Manager, Glasgow Museums and Patricia Allan: Curator of World Cultures, Glasgow Museums

Skill-Sharing Workshop: Interpretation and Label Writing

With Anna Garnett, Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology

Two people standing in front of a tactile object display

Go mMAD {Make Museums Accessible Digitally}

With Siddhant Shah, Museum Access Consultant and Founder, Access For ALL

Elaine Addington sits with of a row of people wearing headphones and a microphone

Outreach at Glasgow Museums – what now?

With Elaine Addington, Open Museum Curator at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre