What the heck is a lek?
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
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A new series of online talks featuring colleagues from Wessex Museums sharing case studies and best practices.
In this talk, Friday will discuss the process of running this pilot LGBTQIA+ heritage project and queering Wiltshire Museum, including doing queer research, contemporary collecting, hosting queer events and creating an LGBTQIA+ heritage resource. They will detail the challenges of a queer heritage project, and share their Guide to Running LGBTQIA+ (Heritage) Projects.
Friday Schoemaker – Project Officer at Wiltshire Museum.
Recorded on 8 May 2025.
Have you ever considered if that little emoji plays a part in the climate emergency? Have you ever been left wondering if you should share a file or share a link? Have you stopped to think “do I choose politeness or planet?”
Our world was moved into an age reliant on digital resources, but are we using them in the best way for our planet and what is the hidden impact of our technological age? Should you respond to every email? Should you subscribe to email newsletters rather than receiving them through the post? What is the real cost of our digital footprints? Find out in this beginners’ guide to digital carbon footprints to help you make appropriate choices when working in your museums.
Speaker: Gary Edwards, Curator, Poole Museum
Recorded on 21 November 2024
Museum & Art Swindon reopened after four years closure following covid in a new venue with new permanent and temporary exhibitions galleries. The Swindon Museum team delivered most of this process in house. This started with packing up, auditing and relocated the stored collecting. The team then wrote, designed and displayed the new galleries themselves, with a very hands on approach. This delivered a new museum for 10s of thousands rather than millions. John will explore the process behind the project and the lessons learnt along the way.
John Wood, Collections & Exhibitions Manager at Swindon Museums
Recorded on 3 October 2024
Welcome to our in-depth look at the Fashioning Our World project at Salisbury Museum. In this talk, Katy England, Project Manager at the museum, talks about how the fashion collections were used to uncover the hidden stories of sustainability in historical clothing and accessories. About the Project: Fashioning Our World worked in a collaborative way with young people (aged 11 – 25) to discover the hidden stories of sustainability told by clothes and accessories in the past, share these powerful stories with the community, change attitudes to fashion in the future and help fight the climate crisis.
Katy England – Project Manager, The Salisbury Museum
Recorded on 27 February 2025.
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!