Connecting Museums

Connecting Museums focuses on museums and their relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, as well as a detailed assessment of the alliances that have been established between museums and other stakeholders in recent years.

Mark O'Neill is former Head of Glasgow Museums. He is now an independent researcher and consultant, an Associate Professor, College of Arts, Glasgow University and Chair of the Jury of the European Museum of the Year Award. Glenn Hooper is a Researcher in Heritage and Tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University and Editor of Heritage and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (Routledge), and Heritage at the Interface (Florida).

1. A Social Museum by Design; 2. Notes from the Frontline: Partnerships in Museums; 3. The Social Role of Museums: from Social Inclusion to Health and Wellbeing; 4. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and the journey towards Cultural Democracy; 5. Breaking out of the museum core: Conservation as participatory ontology and systemic action inquiry; 6. Thinking through Museums and Health in Glasgow; 7. Partnership for Health: the role of cultural and national assets in Public Health; 8. Transforming Health, Museums and the Civic Imagination; 9. ''Who Me?': the individual experience in Participative and Collaborative Projects; 10. Coalville Heroes; 11. On a Hungry Hill: Museology and Community on the Beara Peninsula; 12. ''Only Connect': the Heritage and Emotional Politics of show-casing the Suffering Migrant; 13. The Changing Shape of Museums in an increasingly Digital World; 14. Material Presence and Virtual Representation: the place of the Museum in a Globalised World; 15. Curating Democratic and Civic Engagement