Museums Association Conference Gateshead 2023: ITP Report

We are very pleased to share the ITP report from our programme at the 2023 Museums Association Conference. Each year the International Training Programme organise a week-long programme structured around the Museums Association (MA) annual conference. The 2023 MA Conference was held in Newcastle and Gateshead and was attended by five fellows:

• Aprille Tijam (Philippines, ITP Fellow 2019), Senior Manager, Exhibitions and Collections, Ayala Museum
• Beatrice Adeola Bamigbade (Nigeria, ITP Fellow 2022), Assistant Chief Conservator, Unity Museum, National Commission for Museum and Monuments (NCMM)
• Fatma Sezin Dogruer (Turkey, ITP Fellow 2009), Culture and Tourism Expert (Architect), Ministry of Culture and Tourism
• Sanjeewani Widyarathne (Sri Lanka, ITP Fellow 2019), Education Promoting Officer, Colombo National Museum
• Yanoa Pomalima Carrasco (Peru, ITP Fellow 2022), Museum and Heritage Consultant, Ministry of Culture

Additionally, we were joined by three more ITP fellows for the conference days:

• Beimote Ngozi Etim (Nigeria, ITP Fellow 2017), Principal Policy Officer, Currency Museum, Central Bank of Nigeria
• Cynthia Iroube (Nigeria, ITP Fellow 2010), Chief Curator, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM)
• Ma. Yohana Frias (Philippines, ITP Fellow 2018), Exhibition Designer, National Museum of the Philippines

The theme of the 2023 MA Conference was ‘The Power of Museums.’ In addition to the conference, a programme of visits was organised which included trips to The Discovery Museum, Great North Museum: Hancock, Hadrian’s Wall, and Beamish: The Living Museum of the North.

Read the ITP report on the MA Conference Gateshead programme HERE, and check out on the reports written by the five fellows who attended for the whole week HERE.

Thank you to all who helped to make the programme a success!