How museums are helping to change our understanding of mental health

The art of co-curation with lived experience of mental health

The fifth and final episode of this series features Glasgow Museums and focuses on the art of co-curation with people with lived experience of mental health problems.

Training new museum professionals and mental health

Episode 4 features Dulwich Picture Gallery [https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/] and explores its Together through Art [https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/learning/schools/partnerships-and-projects/together-through-art/] project which trains young people with lived experience of mental health problems as creative facilitators for their schools programme.

Museums and arts on referral

The third episode explores two city-based arts on referral schemes, in Salisbury with the Salisbury Museum [https://salisburymuseum.org.uk/] through the Well-City Salisbury partnership, and in Bath with The Holburne Museum [https://www.holburne.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA1ZGcBhCoARIsAGQ0kkpu1WjVpgtsgMXc8b4G9U64TEoTd2kC9bOguXop3E47dYi6jcAViqQaAlW1EALw_wcB]’s long-running Pathways to Wellbeing programme.

Participatory arts in psychiatric hospitals

This second episode features Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) [https://www.twmuseums.org.uk/] and in particular its work with patients in St Nicholas' Hospital in Newcastle.

How museums are helping to change our understanding of mental health

Our first episode focuses on two specialist mental health museums, Glenside Hospital Museum [https://www.glensidemuseum.org.uk/] in Bristol and the Mental Health Museum [https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/mental-health-museum/home/] in Wakefield.