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Calling all museums in Wales!

Rural Relevance: How to identify, care for & share rural collections Free Training: Thursday 21 March 2024 1-3pm, Online Do you want to feel more confident about using your rural collection in a greater range of stories and activities, creating … Continue reading

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RMN’23 – Contemporary collecting of tractors and agricultural equipment

Image credit: The Museum of English Rural Life/University of Reading The Rural Museums Network’s Autumn Rural Voices seminar series concluded with the opportunity to hear from four leaders in their field as we critically examined the issues of contemporary and near-collecting … Continue reading

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RMN’23 – Food for Thought

Image credit: The Museum of English Rural Life/University of Reading The Rural Museums Network’s autumn Rural Voices seminar series continued with the chance to hear from three curators who have developed prominent food-themed temporary exhibitions. This session was hosted by Guy Baxter, … Continue reading

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RMN’23 – “I’m an archivist, not a merchandiser!” The (im)practicalities of commercial opportunities from collections

Image credit: The Museum of English Rural Life/University of Reading The first seminar of the Rural Museums Network’s autumn Rural Voices series saw us joined by Guy Baxter, archivist at the Museum of English Rural Life, to discuss the opportunities and challenges … Continue reading

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RMN’23 – Disability in rural museums – Past and present narratives

The Spring 2023 Rural Voices Seminar Series concluded with the opportunity to explore how rural museums can better represent D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in our museums and using our collections. Karen Sayer, Professor at Leeds Trinity University presented on … Continue reading

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RMN’23 – Utilising Intangible Cultural Heritage to actively support rural crafts

The Spring 2023 Rural Voices Seminar Series continued with a thought-provoking session exploring rural crafts, some of which are becoming endangered, and consequently being added to the Heritage Crafts Red List. Heritage Crafts is the national charity for traditional crafts skills … Continue reading

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RMN’23 – In Your Words – Breathing new life into the Survey of English Dialect

To kick off the Spring 2023 Rural Voices Seminar Series, we were delighted to be joined by a fascinating panel of speakers to explore the topic of dialect. The Dialect and Heritage Project is a national project based on a partnership … Continue reading

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RMN’22 – Conservation Conversations with George Monger ACR

A lively discussion and information sharing session ensued as we welcomed George Monger ACR to discuss conservation problems facing rural museums across the UK in the December 2022 Rural Voices Seminar. Rural Museums Network members and guests were asked to … Continue reading

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RMN’22 – Rural Museums as Catalysts for Sustainable Development

Rural communities – and their museums – face particular social, environmental and economic challenges. These are often ‘lost’ in museum-sector discussion, which often speaks from an urban/city perspective, but does not reflect the realities of rural museums, people or communities. … Continue reading

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RMN’22 – Wretched Huts and Despicable Hovels; pre-Improvement farmhouses in Scotland

Tracing the history of the longhouse in Scotland from the earliest examples through to survivors today, we were delighted to welcome Niall Logan to our October 2022 Rural Voices Seminar to explore how such structures were built, how they functioned, … Continue reading

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