Nicola Bell

Dementia Friendly Heritage

As increasing numbers of people are developing dementia, the Alzheimers Society and several heritage organisations have produced a very practical guide: [Link removed 12/12/23 as no longer available on the external website].  Beamish Museum does a lot of work with people who have dementia, and as part of the northern launch of Rethinking Heritage, they set up two tea tables - one is dementia-friendly, and the other less so.

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Martin Luther King in Newcastle

It's 50 years since Martin Luther King came to Newcastle (13 November 2017) to receive an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University for his work for civil rights. In his acceptance speech, he spoke about the three urgent and great problems of racism, poverty and war.  Watch his speech here http://freedomcity2017.com/ - scroll down the page to find it.

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Art up your tab

Whilst Tristram Hunt (Director of the V&A) is questioning the value of digitising museum and gallery collections, Europeana has launched Art Up Your Tab which brings a new image to your screen every time you open a new tab in Chrome.

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Museums Change Lives

The Museums Association has launched the new phase of Museums Change Lives, so museums can increase their social impact through health and wellbeing, making places better to live and work in, and inspiring engagement, debate and reflection.

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  1. Charred timber cladding for the Kielder wildlife hide
  2. New wildlife hide for Kielder
  3. Martin Luther King - Freedom City Launch
  4. On tenterhooks
  5. Heritage Schools wins Europa Nostra award
  6. Glass Beats
  7. Leeches and Stories of Glass
  8. Selma - the right to vote
  9. Kinder Transport Memorial, Liverpool Street Station
  10. Goulash Cannon and Tin Helmet
  11. Remembrance
  12. Making glass at the National Glass Centre
  13. The Canary Girls
  14. Recycling from the First World War
  15. The Talented and Colossal Mademoiselle D'Jeck
  16. Visitor Studies in Split, Croatia
  17. On the border of Slovenia and Hungary
  18. Culture Matters
  19. Slovenia
  20. Repositories of technology
  21. A piece of Hungarian social history
  22. Museum + Heritage Show; Arts Professional
  23. Evaluation training in Slovenia and Croatia
  24. Iron Applause in Central Europe
  25. Escaped Circus Elephant!
  26. Gold from Afghanistan and Foundling fabrics
  27. The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík
  28. Contemporary art from North Korea
  29. Nicola appointed to Board: Kuratórium
  30. Workshop in Hungary
  31. Evaluation Training in Hungary
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