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The people’s museum in perpetuity: Community engagement at the Horniman

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3 Dec '18

Museums + Heritage Advisor – 3 Dec 18

The people’s museum in perpetuity: Community engagement at the Horniman -...

New galleries have seen the Horniman Museum and Gardens reconnect with a wider demographic writes Chief Executive Nick Merriman

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The introduction of a new World Gallery in June and a new community exhibition space, The Studio in October has seen The Horniman Museum and Gardens reconnect with a wider demographic and, writes Chief Executive Nick Merriman, has further confirmed the Horniman to be a space where people from all backgrounds can come together to share what it means to be human.

“21st-century museums must look back to the best of the founding impulses of Victorian liberalism; acknowledge and be honest about their problematic colonial history, and re-avow the vital importance of appealing to all and engaging their communities”—
Nick Merriman, chief executive, The Horniman Museum and Gardens

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