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About us
Who we are
Wessex Museums is a thriving partnership of museums across Dorset and Wiltshire – Dorset Museums, Lydiard House Museum, Poole Museum, STEAM – the Museum of the Great Western Railway, Museum & Art Swindon, The Salisbury Museum and Wiltshire Museum.
Our purpose is to build resilience and relevance of the museums in our partnership and across the region. Our mission is to connect, inspire and add value to people’s lives. Through our website we share learning, resources and inspiration across the wider museums and arts sector.
Our culture and values
Our mission is to support museums to connect, inspire and add value to people's lives.
Wessex Museums supports and enhances the work in partner museums, helping them share the story of our region through its outstanding cultural heritage with more people and in new ways.
We do this through:
- Support with funding, strategy and development
- Collaborative approaches to programming, engagement, collections and audience development
- Sharing our knowledge, skills and expertise
- Helping to raise standards, promote best practice, and advocate for our museums and the sector
- Raising the profile of our museums and our region.
Equality, diversity and inclusion policy
We take our commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) very seriously, with the aim of dismantling prejudice and discrimination in our own organisations.
Through our EDI Framework (see below) and Action Plan we advocate for underserved communities in our region and for strong EDI practice in our sector. This includes being effective allies and platforming the voices of people from underserved backgrounds within our own organisations and across our region who experience prejudice and discrimination.
Read our policy online: https://www.wessexmuseums.org.uk/about-us/our-mission/equality-diversity-inclusion-policy/
