Resources

Engaging Refugees and Asylum Seekers – National Museums Liverpool
Best practice guide showing how museums can support and include displaced communities.
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Core Beliefs – Counterpoints Arts
Outlines the values behind cultural activism and refugee inclusion through the arts.
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Migration Network – Migration Museum
Connects institutions across the UK exploring migration through participatory programming.
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Participatory Methods Directory
Global resource hub for participatory approaches including visual, oral, and narrative methods.
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InsightShare: Stories of Change
Participatory video work with refugees and people with disabilities to inform humanitarian programs.
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Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point
Berlin and Oxford projects where refugees lead intercultural museum tours.
Berlin | Oxford

Refugee Week in Museums – Counterpoints Arts
Annual UK-wide festival using museums to platform refugee stories and creativity.
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MEG Geneva – Migrants and Museums
Swiss participatory curation work co-designed with migrants and refugees.
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Tate Exchange: Who Are We?
Collaborative art programme exploring identity and migration through public workshops.
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House of Memories – National Museums Liverpool
Digital and object-based storytelling from refugee and migrant communities.
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Empathy Museum – Storytelling and Walking Tours
Interactive experiences to understand others’ lives, including refugees’ journeys.
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Open Museum Glasgow – Community Exhibitions
Empowers local groups to create exhibitions using museum collections.
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Museum of Homelessness – Displacement Stories
Uses participatory curation to tell lived experiences of homelessness and migration.
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Migration Museum – London
Dedicated to telling the UK’s migration stories through exhibitions and events.
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Art Refuge – Therapeutic Arts with Refugees
Uses art and advocacy to support wellbeing in refugee contexts.
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ICOM Voices – Refugee Voices in Museums
Explores inclusive practices and refugee participation in museum settings.
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V&A Museum – Refugee Exhibitions
Curated exhibitions and public programmes during Refugee Week.
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Manchester Museum: Hello Future
Programme co-designed with refugee artists and contributors.
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Oxford University – Syrian Voices Project
Community engagement with displaced Syrians to co-create displays.
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Museum of World Cultures (Sweden)
Inclusive projects reflecting Sweden’s migration and intercultural dialogue.
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Anna Lindh Foundation – Intercultural Dialogue
Supports grassroots initiatives including refugee cultural inclusion.
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Rijksmuseum – Welkom Project (Netherlands)
Educational and cultural engagement with refugee audiences.
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Museums for All Toolkit (Canada)
Resource for making Canadian museums inclusive for all communities, including refugees.
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