Museum to recruit 10 Community Curators with Baltic, the Food Museum, Glasgow Life Museums, Hastings Museum and the Museum of Free Derry.
A new Migration Museum programme, in partnership with five UK museums and galleries, will recruit 10 ‘Community Curators’ to co-create displays and creative outputs exploring migration stories.
The museum’s Community Curators Programme will surface local migration stories into displays, to be shown at partner venues from Spring 2027.
The programme will also help to shape the Migration Museum’s permanent home in London, opening in 2028.
The Migration Museum will work with Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, Glasgow Life Museums, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, and the Museum of Free Derry to recruit its 10 Community Curators, beginning this week.
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“The Community Curators programme provides an exciting opportunity for two people in the North East of England to share their enthusiasm, knowledge and perspective on migration with local and national audiences”, said Annie Bedford, interim head of learning and senior producer (Communities) at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Nelson Cummins, senior curator (empowering curators fellow) at Glasgow Life Museums, added: “Glasgow wouldn’t be Glasgow without migration, so this is a welcome and valuable chance to examine its significance, and support the Migration Museum’s work toward its new home.
The Migration Museum Community Curators programme is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and is supported by funding from University College London’s Institute of Education.
