We are thrilled to be shortlisted for the Museums Change Lives Awards 2022. The Awards celebrate the achievements of museums that are making a difference to the lives of their audiences and communities across the UK. Founder Diana Foster has been recognised for the Radical Changemaker Award:
The Radical Changemaker award recognises the achievements of an individual in promoting one or more of the themes of the Museums Change Lives campaign in their museum.
Museum Association
‘Diana’s work in founding a community museum and living memory project has impacted Somers Town, Camden’s sustainable development at a time of uncertainty and encroaching gentrification. She worked to preserve local identity and memories in a place of radical reformers; where innovative social housing projects took place and radical thinkers such as Wollstonecraft and Padmore lived. She has campaigned tirelessly to promote this history and an area’s sense of place, and the museum aims to become a site of social justice: a community hub as well as a repository of memory.’
Diana will attend this year’s awards in Edinburgh on Thursday 3 November as part of the Museums Association’s annual conference.
To view the shortlist for the MCL awards 2022 please see the MA website.
Here’s a review of our activities over the last year…
Museums Change Lives Awards
The awards have four categories, including a new Reimagining the Museum award, recognises the best example of a museum using decolonising practice to recognise the impact of the legacy of empire and slavery in any area of its activities.
The Best Museums Change Lives Project award recognises the best project in the past year that reflects one or more of the themes of the Museums Association’s Museums Change Lives campaign: Promoting Health and Wellbeing; Creating Better Places; and Inspiring Engagement, Reflection and Debate.
The Best Small Museum Project recognises the best project at museums with an annual turnover of less than £320,000.
The Radical Changemaker award recognises the achievements of an individual in promoting one or more of the themes of the Museums Change Lives campaign in their museum.