Interested in collaborating with PHM? Find out how you can get involved.
The museum provides opportunities for all people to learn about, be inspired by and get involved in ideas worth fighting for, offering a powerful programme with varied themes.
Through collaboration PHM aims to deliver a programme of activity that is diverse, accessible and engaging for all.
Interested in collaborating with PHM? Read the following information to find out more, and get in touch.
In 2022 and 2023 PHM will explore the history of disabled people’s rights and activism through a co-curated programme of exhibitions, events and activity. We are currently working with a steering group of disabled people on this programme.
If you are interested in getting involved with the Nothing About Us Without Us programme, have an idea for an event, exhibition or project connected to the history of disabled people’s rights and activism, or would like more information, please email Michael Powell, Programme Officer on michael.powell@phm.org.uk.
We are keen to be open about how we work with people to create programmes of activity.
Here is the consultation and planning report for PHM’s 2022 – 2023 programme, which was developed through many conversations with disabled people with a range of impairments, guided by our project steering group between 2019 and 2021.
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Throughout 2020 and 2021, PHM is exploring migration through a programme of activity, co-created by a Community Programme Team made up of people whose lives have been shaped by migration.
PHM’s exhibitions programme is now fully booked until May 2022. The events programme is confirmed until June 2021.
If you are interested in getting involved with this programme or would like more information, please email Zofia Kufeldt, Programme Officer on zofia.kufeldt@phm.org.uk.
What's on exploring migrationThe museum receives a large number of enquiries from people who would like to collaborate with us. Unfortunately, we don’t have capacity to work with everyone.
Once a month PHM’s Programme Team meet to review and discuss any new ideas received.
We prioritise opportunities that have the potential to do one or more of the following things:
If you are interested in collaborating with us, please send a short email, video message, or sound recording to events@phm.org.uk and answer these questions:
Don’t worry if you can’t answer all of the questions above, we can always discuss your idea in more detail at a later stage.
If you are unable to put your idea into an email, video message, or sound recording, you can phone the museum on 0161 838 9190 and ask to discuss your idea with a member of the Programme Team.
You can also send us your idea by post to:
Programme Team
People’s History Museum
Left Bank
Spinningfields
Manchester M3 3ER
We will let you know when we have discussed your idea and whether or not it is something we can work with you on.
Please note we usually need at least five months’ notice to programme events, projects or activities.
Find out which radical you are and help us match your interests to what’s on at PHM.
As a member we will send you e-newsletters approximately every two months.
