Becoming a Healthy Museum conference - book your place now! Visit www.thackraymuseum.org/UKMCG for booking form.
Thackray Museum, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7LN

Tuesday 29th May, 2012
10am-4pm

This inspiring and practical one-day conference will bring you up to date with new structures and priorities in the health sector, and will explore how heritage organisations can contribute to government agendas around all aspects of health. 
Whether you are already involved with the UK Medical Collections Group, or if you are a curator or educator who is keen to join the debate about what heritage can offer to health, we hope that you can join us on 29th May.
You will hear from speakers from the heath sector, as well as museum and arts professionals who have worked towards health agendas. You will also have the chance to explore how you can link your work to health outcomes. We aim to bring together existing practice and new information to develop a long-term vision of how museums can contribute to health outcomes. 
This conference is supported by Arts Council England. Attendance at the conference is FREE and travel bursaries are available – please book early to secure one for your organisation.
www.thackraymuseum.org

 

Becoming a Healthy Museum
Thackray Medical Museum
29th May 2012
10 am 	Coffee
10.30am	Welcome on behalf of the Thackray Medical Museum/ UK Medical Collections Group    
10.35am	Changing landscape of health agendas – overview of UKMCG research Ali Bodley/ Jo Bartholomew
	Key NHS Speakers
11.30 am	Coffee
11.45	Personal Social Health and Economic Education and schools
	John Lloyd PSHE Association Policy Advisor

12.00	How the heritage sector is engaging with Health Agendas 
Short case studies:
Myna Trustam - Independent cultural consultant  
Who Cares?  Museums, Health and Wellbeing
Michelle Douek Dulwich Picture Gallery
 Good Times Art for Older People
Laura Butland  The Infirmary/George Marshall Medical Museum
Working with young people to explore the history of sexually transmitted infections through medical collections and art’
Sarah Clark - of Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum 
	The Museum of Madness

1.00	Lunch
1.45	Practical Workshops:
1.	Who Cares? Museums, Health and Wellbeing programme
Myna Trustam - Independent cultural consultant  
2.	Working with schools 
John Lloyd  Policy Advisor PSHE Association
3.	Heritage in Hospitals  tbc
Linda Thomas, UCL
3.00	Coffee
3.15	Discussion – How can we work together to deliver against healthcare agendas
4.00	Close