Over 350 practitioners and policy makers from heritage, cultural and community organisations shared ideas, learned new skills and debated the big questions that engaging new audiences with heritage challenges us to explore:
- Whose story are we telling?
- Do we need to redefine ‘heritage’?
- What do roots, identity and sense of place mean in today’s society?
There were practical workshops covering topics from how to engage young people with heritage to involving communities in re-interpreting historic properties, from understanding the needs of different social and cultural groups to embedding culture change across organisations.
It was a very successful event, though you don’t have to take our word for it! You can hear feedback from the delegates on the blog site.
Although the conference has finished, the discussions have only just started and we want to hear your thoughts on the questions that the confernece was exploring:
- How can we bring new audiences to heritage? And why are we trying to do this?
- What’s the impact on people and society if we do?
- What does heritage mean to people?
- Whose story are we telling?
- Do we need to re-define heritage?
- How do we change as organisations in order to respond to different views of heritage?
To keep the issues live and dynamic, we’ve created a conference blog which is both a chance for you to have your say but also to read about every session that took place, with downloadable handouts from the workshops as well as summaries from the panel debates, interviews with key speakers, photos and audio.
Keep your eye on the blog as we’ll be continuing to upload content in the future as well as hosting live web chats and other chances for you to join in the debates.
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