Spotlight

• Be the first to see the Museum of Transology’s new digital platform, enabling users to explore the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives.
• Join us in celebrating upcoming trans-inclusive exhibitions, public programmes and examples of sector-leading practice.
• Find out about the practical resources and tools for inclusion that are being co-produced with a partnership of museums, galleries and heritage organisations across the UK.

Trans-Inclusive Culture is hosted by Sabah Choudrey (Author, Supporting Trans People of Colour: How To Make Your Practice Inclusive) and confirmed contributors include Maggie Appleton (Chief Executive Officer, RAF Museum), Clare Barlow (Director, People’s History Museum), Sharon Cowan (Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies, University of Edinburgh), Cesare Cuzzola (Research Centre for Museums and Galleries), Sharon Heal (Director, Museums Association), Laura Pye (Director, National Museums Liverpool), Richard Sandell (Co-director, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries), E-J Scott (Curator, Museum of Transology), Laura Summers (Head of Programme Delivery, Art Fund).

This event forms part of the anniversary celebrations that mark 60 years of global impact of Museum Studies at Leicester. During this time, the University of Leicester has acquired a global reputation for leading-edge thinking and experimental practice in Museum Studies.