The Toolkit
The Gendering the Museum toolkit and accompanying materials provides easy-to-use practical guides for staff, community groups and volunteers to change the representation of gender in museums, galleries and heritage sites.
Why use the toolkit?
Gendering the Museum can help you to:
Develop your curatorial research
Increase knowledge of your collections by uncovering their hidden gendered aspects and resonances
Add layers without adding objects
Find ways to diversify representation within your organisation by discovering more about your existing objects, rather than having to acquire new ones
Create engaging and diverse interpretation
Develop your representation of women’s and LGBTQ+ history, adding fresh perspectives to your existing interpretation
Reach new audiences
Create exhibitions and events programming which appeal more to these historically underrepresented groups
Encourage re-visits
Give regular visitors something new to discover
Be more inclusive
Make sure all visitors and event attendees have a positive experience, regardless of gender
Develop your social impact
Provide a safe space and sense of historical community for LGBTQ+ people, and combat the narrative that gender diversity is a ‘new invention’
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Download Our Toolkit
Download our free toolkit now to help you tell new stories about gender.
In order to keep track of who’s using our toolkits we require some basic information. After you submit this information we will send you an email with a link to your download.
Download our Visitors and Communities Mini Toolkit
This PDF mini toolkit is aimed at visitors, volunteers and community groups, and guides you to reflect on the place of gender in your experience of a museum or heritage site.
In order to keep track of who’s using our toolkits we require some basic information. After you submit this information we will send you an email with a link to your download.
Download our Evaluation Mini Toolkit
This PDF evaluation mini toolkit is aimed at museum and heritage professionals, as well as community groups, and provides practical guidance for how to evaluate the impact of your working to change the representation of gender in museums, galleries and heritage sites.
In order to keep track of who’s using our toolkits we require some basic information. After you submit this information we will send you an email with a link to your download.
RELATED CASE STUDIES
These featured case studies give real-life examples of how you can gender objects in museums and heritage sites.
![Antimony Cup 1](https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk/transforms/uploads/case-studies/antimony-cup/_20xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Antimony-Cup-1.jpg)
Antimony Cup
![Blue and White Dish](https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk/transforms/uploads/case-studies/dish/_20xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Blue-and-White-Dish.jpg)
Dish
![Book Diversarum nationum habitus](https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk/transforms/uploads/case-studies/book-diuersar/_20xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Book-Diversarum-nationum-habitus.jpg)
Book, Diuersar
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FEEDBACK
Has using the toolkit and accompanying materials inspired you or changed the ways in which you think or act? We’d love to hear from you!