Opening DOORS across Europe I’ve been lucky enough to take part, on behalf of St Ives Museum, in Ars Electronica’s DOORS Museum Incubator program. The programme was developed to give intensive training and assistance […] Climate Cafes and the Happy Museum's Peer Learning programme A year ago I joined a workshop run by the Climate Psychology Alliance which trains participants in Climate Café facilitation. Consisting of confidence-building around the principles of welcoming people into […] Audio Archives Cornish Tales was developed to explore how Smart Speaker Devices and AI technology could be used to make audio archives more accessible to the general public. It was led by […] DOORS Digital Incubator Programme We are excited to have been selected to take part in the DOORS digital incubator programme with our partner St Ives Museum. DOORS is a project run by Ars Electronica […] Green museums: getting together to tackle the climate crisis In April and May, Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) held three Green Museums ‘get-togethers’ at Wheal Martyn, Liskeard, and Hayle. We welcomed people from all over Cornwall representing museums and heritage […] Firm Foundations Sign up to the newsletter today for future programme details  – sign up here The Firm Foundations Programme is a course for people about to embark on a capital development project in the heritage […] Discover the Cornish treasures reinvigorating ten towns and villages Press Release: 04/05/2022 A project to breathe new life into Cornish towns and villages launches this week, with culture and heritage bringing curiosity and exploration to the high streets of […] Green Museums Collective: Tackling the climate emergency in Cornwall's museums As a global movement, eco-activism – the call for environmental action to tackle climate change – is well-established. Eco-activism has pushed for international cooperation, holding world leaders and corporate conglomerates […] Argh Kenedhlek Kernow - Behind the Zine In this blog Graphic Designer Lesley-Anne Harris of Little Bird Creative shares the story of Argh Kenedhlek Kernow, a full-colour Zine designed and created to share an exploration of Cornish […] Cornwall Museums Partnership appoint Tamzyn Smith as new CEO. Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) is excited to announce the appointment of Tamzyn Smith as new CEO, to further drive the charity forward in new and innovative directions and continue its […] Cornwall Heritage Awards 2022 Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) held the Cornwall Heritage Awards 2022 on Wednesday 9 February at the Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge to celebrate heritage organisations in Cornwall, and recognise the fantastic […] Ukraine - statement of support On behalf of Cornwall’s museum community, we wish to extend our solidarity and support for our museum and heritage colleagues in Ukraine. We are desperately concerned for the Ukrainian people, […] Working in partnership to recruit more inclusively CMP is committed to inclusive recruitment. As my colleague Jenna described last year, we’ve trialed a couple of different approaches with great successes along the way. In my role, I […] Meet the 2022 Trainee Curators We’re delighted to introduce our 2022 cohort of Trainee Curators. Isobel, Fran, Dan, Emily and Penny have taken up roles at five of our partner museums in the last month […] Citizen Curator Zine Citizens Curator Zine “Cornish identities have been shaped by a constant stream of meeting and working with different people, as well as by our landscapes, materials, shared hopes, celebration and […] Sara Matson joins the CMP Board Having worked in the heritage sector in Cornwall for the last 19 years, I am delighted to be joining the board at CMP. With a career in museums that spans […] Cornwall Heritage Awards - Core Values Part Two The core values of sustainability and inclusivity have been embedded into the 2022 Cornwall Heritage Awards; and not just in the award categories themselves. These values have been at the […] Black Histories Last month we welcomed Sandra Shakespeare and Ashton John from the Black British Museum (BBM) project to highlight some of the brilliant inclusive work going on in Cornish museums telling […] Peter Lefort joins the CMP Board I am extremely excited to be joining the Cornwall Museums Partnership board. It comes at a time of change for the organisation, but also for the wider sector. The potential […] Cornwall Heritage Awards 2022 Object of the Year This year we are turning the spotlight on inclusion by drawing public attention to objects in our museum collections that tell previously untold stories, or stories that need retelling from […] Cornwall Heritage Awards - Core Values Part One The core values of sustainability and inclusivity have been embedded into the 2022 Cornwall Heritage Awards; and not just in the award categories themselves. These values have been at the […] Cornwall Heritage Awards 2022: Producing the Awards Part 1 My name is Eilish Calnan, and I have recently joined the team at Cornwall Museums Partnership as the Heritage Awards Coordinator. I have just graduated from the University of Exeter studying History […] Photogrammetry for 3D textiles capture - lessons learnt through Beyond Digitisation We launched Beyond Digitisation in late 2020. The project aimed to 3D model textile collections and then experiment with commercial sales of the assets. Bodmin Keep, Penlee House Gallery & […] Cornwall Heritage Awards 2022 There are more than 70 heritage sites in Cornwall: museums, art galleries, castles, mines, historic properties and industrial heritage sites. Many more collections are held in community archives. They offer […] CMP Has a New Brand and Website Cornwall Museums Partnership is an independent charity that was formed by museums in 2015 to provide leadership for Cornwall’s museums; to support them, represent them and give them a voice. […] Our Journey to More Diverse and Inclusive Recruitment Last year, together with a group of our partner museums, we were incredibly fortunate to work with The Inclusivity Project in addressing how we recruited – to make our processes more inclusive and accessible. […] What is XR and How Does it Relate to Immersive Technology? Welcome to our new blog series by Digital Marketing Intern, Magali Guastalegnanne, explaining key concepts related to the Museums Immersive Network. Our first instalment explores the definition of XR and […] Building an Actively Anti-racist Culture at CMP In May 2020, like so many other charities across the world, CMP recognised the need for institutional change regarding anti-racist work, both in the museums sector and in wider society. On 2 June 2020, we tweeted: […] Jan van Huysum Visits: Dutch Masterpiece Comes to Cornwall PRESS RELEASE Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) is delighted to announce its partnership with the National Gallery and Concern Wadebridge to welcome Jan van Huysum Visits to Cornwall following the positive […] Impact Report: Spotlight on Internships I started my internship with CMP the day before this year’s lockdown in January started. Luckily for me by then CMP had adjusted well to working through lockdowns, and I […] Impact Report: Spotlight on Internships The past 6 months of my marketing internship at CMP have been a steep learning curve, allowing me to develop a wealth of valuable transferable skills, workplace experience and most of all confidence!  I’ve been fortunate enough to get involved in a wide array […] Citizen Curators Two Years On – Part Two Citizen Curators is a free work-based training programme in museum awareness and modern curatorial practice aimed at volunteers from our community. The programme is provided by Cornwall Museums Partnership in […] Jan van Huysum Visits: Dutch Masterpiece Comes to Cornwall PRESS RELEASE Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) is delighted to announce its partnership with the National Gallery and Concern Wadebridge to welcome Jan van Huysum Visits to Cornwall following the positive response to Artemisia […] A Day in the Life: Eilish Calnan, Citizen Curator at Wheal Martyn Welcome to our blog series, ‘A Day in the Life…’ which features individuals at CMP and our partner museums and what they get up to on a typical day at […] Explore Cornwall’s Audio Archives from the Comfort of Your Own Home PRESS RELEASE A new and innovative way to explore the oral histories and audio archives of Cornwall’s museums and archives has just launched. ‘Cornish Tales’ enables users to travel through time and the Duchy, listening to stories from the […] £50,000 Art Fund Grant Supports 3D Costume Digitisation Project at Cornwall Museums Partnership PRESS RELEASE – Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) has received a £50,000 Respond & Reimagine grant from Art Fund to deliver a new, innovative approach to generating income for museums with […] The wAVE Impact Report: a Report on Immersive Technology Developed for Cornish Museums The wAVE Project recently released their 2021 Impact Report, an in-depth report covering its partners, case studies, achievements and objectives for the future. The wAVE (AVE = Augmented and Virtual […] Trainee Curators Programme – Diversifying the Cultural Workforce in Cornish Museums Claire English is an imaginative curator and collaborator with experience in exhibition production, workshops, events and management. Working with five Trainee Curators hosted at 4 museums across Cornwall, Claire has […] The wAVE Project: a Film on the Development of Immersive Technology Experiences in Cornwall The wAVE (Augmented and Virtual Experiences) Project has been developed by Cornwall Museums Partnership alongside Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership and Falmouth University. It aims to […] The wAVE Project: a Film on the Development of Immersive Technology Experiences in Cornwall The wAVE (Augmented and Virtual Experiences) Project has been developed by Cornwall Museums Partnership alongside Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership and Falmouth University. It aims to […] Museums at Home: Supporting Foodbanks and Families with Activity Packs in 2020 Over the course of this challenging year, our partner museums have continued supporting their communities remotely; we are particularly proud of their amazing work distributing creative activity packs and learning […] Winners Announced at 2020 Cornwall Heritage Awards   Museums across Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly took part in an online celebration, where 10 museums celebrated success, at the Cornwall Heritage Awards which took place via Zoom […] Heritage Awards 2020 It was always going to be a challenge, picking up an established awards ceremony in the beginning of a pandemic! When I started the MDO role in July, the awards […] Funding Success – Art Fund support’s the Rural Diversity Network Thanks to funding from Art Fund, Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) is excited to announce  a collaborative project with Black Voices Cornwall (BVC) and the Black British Museum (BBM), collecting the stories and experiences of […]