Communities, Collections and CARE: UK Collections Management Symposium

Manchester Museum hosts a symposium examining how museums and cultural institutions can develop more responsible approaches to collections management, placing communities, care and accountability at the centre of their work.

Titled Communities, Collections and CARE: Reframing UK Collections Management through ICIP and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, the event will bring together museum professionals, researchers and representatives of professional bodies to consider how international frameworks can inform institutional practice.

The programme will explore the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. These approaches offer frameworks for recognising the rights and interests of Indigenous communities in relation to cultural material, knowledge and data.

Presentations and case studies will share work by GLAM-E Lab, the Indigenous Archives Collective and the Indigenous Archives and Data Stewardship Hub, alongside Manchester Museum’s experience of embedding recommendations into institutional policies, procedures and systems.

Through discussions, interactive workshops and contributions from invited speakers, delegates will consider how these principles can move from theory into practice and become sustainable across the UK museum sector.

Attendance is free, but places are limited. An expression of interest is required, with priority given to those actively working in this area.