- The Activist Museum Award
- Addressing the museum attendance and benefit gap
- Articulate
- Birmingham Museum Trust Vision
- Books connect 2
- Building inclusive museums
- Buried in the footnotes
- Cabinet of Curiosities
- A Catalyst for Change
- The Cinematic Musée Imaginaire of spatial cultural differences [CineMuseSpace]
- Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues
- Cultural activity within historic houses
- Developing learning advocates in the East Midlands
- Developing learning advocates in the North West
- Developing new audiences and promoting social inclusion
- Disorder, dissent and disruption
- Encountering the Unexpected
- Engage, learn, achieve
- Engaging archives with Inspiring Learning for All
- Engaging the City
- Cultural value of engaging with museums
- Cultural value of engaging with museums
- EuNaMus
- Evaluating Creativity
- Everyone Welcome 2019-2021
- Everywhere and Nowhere
- Exceptional & Extraordinary
- EXILE at Kingston Lacy
- Generic learning outcomes
- girl.boy.child
- Growing social role of botanic gardens
- HumanKind
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- Imperial War Museum North
- Including Museums
- Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums
- Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums, second study
- Leaders in Co-creation?
- Learning impact research project
- Learning through Culture
- The Madonna of the pinks
- Making Meaning in Art Museums 1
- Making Meaning in Art Museums 2
- Mapping the change phase 2
- Mindful Museum
- Mirror
- Museu do Samba, Brazil
- Museums and an ageing population
- Museums and social inclusion: the GLLAM report
- Museums health and wellbeing
- Co-production Framework at National Museums Liverpool
- New Walk Museum vision
- Not for the likes of you
- Open House
- Open minds
- Participatory practices at the Science Museum
- Permissible Beauty
- Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
- Prisoners, Punishment and Torture
- Redefining the Role of Botanic Gardens
- Research network to advance museum ethics
- Researching Learning in Museums and Galleries 1990-1999
- Rethinking Disability Representation
- shOUT
- Small museums and social inclusion
- Stories of a Different Kind
- Supporting Decolonial Futures
- Talking statues
- TCS project
- The Museum as a Space of Social Care
- The Queer Heritage and Collections Network
- Their Past Your Future 2
- Seeing the museum through the visitors’ eyes
- Trans-Inclusive Culture
- Museums and the Transgender Tipping Point
- Unfinished portrait at Felbrigg Hall
- “In the past we would just be invisible”
- What did you learn at the museum today?
- What did you learn at the museum today? Second study
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- RCMG
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Research archive
- The Activist Museum Award
- Addressing the museum attendance and benefit gap
- Articulate
- Birmingham Museum Trust Vision
- Books connect 2
- Building inclusive museums
- Buried in the footnotes
- Cabinet of Curiosities
- A Catalyst for Change
- The Cinematic Musée Imaginaire of spatial cultural differences [CineMuseSpace]
- Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues
- Cultural activity within historic houses
- Developing learning advocates in the East Midlands
- Developing learning advocates in the North West
- Developing new audiences and promoting social inclusion
- Disorder, dissent and disruption
- Encountering the Unexpected
- Engage, learn, achieve
- Engaging archives with Inspiring Learning for All
- Engaging the City
- Cultural value of engaging with museums
- Cultural value of engaging with museums
- EuNaMus
- Evaluating Creativity
- Everyone Welcome 2019-2021
- Everywhere and Nowhere
- Exceptional & Extraordinary
- EXILE at Kingston Lacy
- Generic learning outcomes
- girl.boy.child
- Growing social role of botanic gardens
- HumanKind
- Impact of generic learning outcomes
- Imperial War Museum North
- Including Museums
- Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums
- Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums, second study
- Leaders in Co-creation?
- Learning impact research project
- Learning through Culture
- The Madonna of the pinks
- Making Meaning in Art Museums 1
- Making Meaning in Art Museums 2
- Mapping the change phase 2
- Mindful Museum
- Mirror
- Museu do Samba, Brazil
- Museums and an ageing population
- Museums and social inclusion: the GLLAM report
- Museums health and wellbeing
- Co-production Framework at National Museums Liverpool
- New Walk Museum vision
- Not for the likes of you
- Open House
- Open minds
- Participatory practices at the Science Museum
- Permissible Beauty
- Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
- Prisoners, Punishment and Torture
- Redefining the Role of Botanic Gardens
- Research network to advance museum ethics
- Researching Learning in Museums and Galleries 1990-1999
- Rethinking Disability Representation
- shOUT
- Small museums and social inclusion
- Stories of a Different Kind
- Supporting Decolonial Futures
- Talking statues
- TCS project
- The Museum as a Space of Social Care
- The Queer Heritage and Collections Network
- Their Past Your Future 2
- Seeing the museum through the visitors’ eyes
- Trans-Inclusive Culture
- Museums and the Transgender Tipping Point
- Unfinished portrait at Felbrigg Hall
- “In the past we would just be invisible”
- What did you learn at the museum today?
- What did you learn at the museum today? Second study
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG)
Co-production Framework at National Museums Liverpool
Waterfront Transformation, Liverpool
RCMG and National Museums Liverpool (NML) worked collaboratively to develop a Co-production Framework that could support the large-scale co-production process driving the Waterfront Transformation Project and redevelopment of the International Slavery Museum. The Framework needed to be able to provide high level, strategic co-ordinates to support the embedding of co-production across wide-ranging sites and teams at NML. Developed through a process of deep engagement with NML staff and stakeholders, the project generated significant insights into questions of organisational transformation in a large cultural institution, the sharing of power and opening up of museum processes and the conditions required for inclusive change to flourish across museum teams, processes and relationships. As well as delivering a Co-production Framework of direct use to NML leaders, staff and partners, the research revealed new insights and learning about the challenges of recognising and responding to the gap that many staff, particularly new staff, experience between the ambition of co-production and the day-to-day realities of doing the work in an organisation in transition. The Framework includes a statement about co-production at NML, a definition of co-production that is challenging and aspirational and a series of principles or co-ordinates to support NML and its partners to work together.
Methodology
The action research was shaped around three key phases of work (1) Working with staff and stakeholders to draft the Co-production Framework; (2) Action Research where colleagues across the organisation picked the Framework up and began using it – large amounts of data were collected on these experiences; and (3) Final testing, refinement and dissemination. A Core Research Group, made up of RCMG and NML staff was established and a series of working papers were developed to draw together research of use to the framework and research process. The draft Framework was then tested across five test sites at NML. In the final stage of the project, we refined the Framework and used the large amount of organisational learning captured during the research to develop a Toolkit tailored to NML and intended to support NML teams.
You can access National Museums Liverpool’s Co-production Framework below and a white accessible version of the Framework here (PDF, 1MB).