Welcome to the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium 2022.

Following the success of our first QHCN Symposium, which took place online in 2021, we held our first hybrid Symposium in 2022 hosted by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The two-day symposium explored the innovative and meaningful queer programming being developed by museums and heritage organisations across the UK. The event was open to museum/heritage sector professionals and academics at all career levels.

Symposium 2022 programme

‘This is such a valuable network and gives us access to expert advice and experience hard to find elsewhere.’

– A QHCN Symposium 2022 Attendee

Symposium 2022 Feedback Report

Day 1 Panel 1: Approaches to Queer Curatorship

Dawn Hoskin (she/her) | Queer Britain
We are Queer Britain: 50 Years, 50 Voices

Meredith More (she/her) & Louise Dickson (she/her) | V&A Dundee
V&A Dundee LGBTQ+ Working Group

Zorian Clayton (he/him) | V&A London
Trans and Non-Binary Collecting at the V&A

Day 1 Panel 2: Reshaping Heritage Spaces

David McAlmont (he/him) & Robert Taylor (he/him) | Permissible Beauty/RCMG
Permissible Beauty

Matthew Storey (he/him) | Historic Royal Palaces
Integrating LGBTQ+ Stories into the Interpretation of Royal Style in the Making

Day 2 Panel 1: Queer Museum Toolkits

Pagan Boydell (they/he) | University of Manchester
Curating Gender Euphoria – A Collaborative Exhibition Toolkit

Katy Parry (she/her) | Chelsea Physic Garden
Queer Programming in Green Spaces

Day 2 Panel 2: Democratising Queer Heritage

Matthew Exley (he/him) | National Museums Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool

Adam Baker (he/him) | Queer Norfolk
Queer Norfolk

Day 2 Panel 3: Queer Heritage & Collections Network Supported Projects

Sophie Meyer (she/her) | Queer Kernow
Queer Kernow – Outback Newsletter Collection

Margaret Middleton (they/them) | Outburst Arts
Looking for Queer Possibility at the Ulster Museum

Day 2 Panel 4: Queering Local Museums

Melissa Hawker (she/her) & Teenage History Club | Norfolk Museums Service
Queering the Vikings with Teenage History Club

Julie Brown (Julie/they) & Jon Sleigh (he/him) | New Art Gallery
Here&Queer: Queering our Collections at The New Art Gallery Walsall