Creatively Minded at the Museum The Baring Foundation

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.

Episode 4 features Dulwich Picture Gallery and explores its Together through Art project which trains young people with lived experience of mental health problems as creative facilitators for their schools programme.

The third episode explores two city-based arts on referral schemes, in Salisbury with the Salisbury Museum through the Well-City Salisbury partnership, and in Bath with The Holburne Museum’s long-running Pathways to Wellbeing programme. 

This second episode features Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) and in particular its work with patients in St Nicholas' Hospital in Newcastle.

Our first episode focuses on two specialist mental health museums, Glenside Hospital Museum in Bristol and the Mental Health Museum in Wakefield.

This series of podcasts has grown out of Creatively Minded at the Museum, a report by The Baring Foundation, an independent funder with a focus on arts and mental health.

At the heart of the report are 16 case studies from museums who are working with people with mental health problems in a targeted way.

These podcasts are a chance to hear curators and learning and engagement staff who have designed and run these programmes talk about their work in their own words.

While museums have a strong commitment to contributing to health and wellbeing in general, targeted work on mental health is still relatively rare. Yet hugely valuable. We hope that both the report and these podcasts encourage more museums in the UK (and elsewhere!) to take up the challenge and develop better access and more opportunities for people living with mental health problems.